When green met blue and the moon, things got real surreal teal.
I’m the shade
wandering your dreams
but pieces of me
stick to whomever
I deep delve
you may have seen me
silhouetted against your sky
in coldest February
howling green
with the blue frozen moon
a duet
to make colors run
and coyotes
cower in their dens
I am teal
a trickster
some know me as blue
others as green
in fact
I am not quite either
yet both
moon and I are friends
we run through your dreams
from room
to imaginary room
your whole world
close enough to touch
we eat a midnight lunch
embellished with foreign lands
seasoned by your thoughts
onion layered
your thoughts
are too heavy to hold
show mercy
peel back the layers
thin by thin
skin by skin
peel them
to the quivering quick
the blue-green quick
my thoughts
split deep
the bone-white lies
of morality plays
open for you to see
hope they’re not terrifying
in your sight
hope they do not
make you cry
hope they do not
make you blue
or green
as you peel back
all the layers
onioned thought layers
held firm
like a carapace
to which
I’m stitched
and welded
and can no more leave
than you can enter
they tie me down
sometimes
but sometimes
barely so
survivor that I am
the inescapable optimism
in my barebones grin
flashes teal
in the brittle moonlight
exposing forgotten creases
and clandestine gateways
to your mind
someone can learn
a thing or two tonight
if someone
will ignite the light
the real teal light
__________|*|__________
“my thoughts split deep the bone-white lies of morality plays
open for all to see” hooked me hard. You wrote a two-pager, much like I do, but you finished before me; packed so much mystery, data and hue into these “colorful” stanzas. You were brave enough to choose a mixed color. I used primary red; my favorite color.
I just went with an SOC approach, going back and molding a few of the stanzas — but quickly, and not many. This is my impression of how teal might think — giving there is clear evidence of significang schizophrenia and identity crisis in his hue and shade. Like, you know, bro? 😉
Wow, you went so deep into teal that I went there too. This color was strong and insightful, informative but mystical….and it took me on a very intriguing journey!
Hope you enjoyed floating down my stream of consciousness Mish… 🙂
Definitely putting me in a surreal state reading it. Who knew teal was all of that.
My stream of consciousness thought so Lisa… 🙂
Iove it Rob! Great poem.
moon and I are friends
we run through your dreams
Dreaming is color is the only way to dream!
Thank you Dwight… 🙂
This flows well, Rob. More to Mr T than I would have credited, until I read this. What a flowsome work.
Thank you Ron! I was just enjoying the tactile feel of words, and this showed up.
I feel the energy of your teal!! It’s a cool color and this poem took me straight to the “forgotten creases and clandestine gateways” of my mind that I didn’t even knew existed, haha!
Hope you enjoyed the journey Tricia.
The bone and the brittle there in the grin. I think I’ll start respecting teal again. Cheers!
Thank you K! It is a proud color, deserving our respect… 🙂
Teal is a gorgeous colour I don’t see or hear much about, so it was a pleasure to read your Surreal Teal, Rob. It has a mellow voice, rather like yours, and is indeed a trickster. I particularly enjoyed these lines:
‘you may have seen me
silhouetted against your sky
in coldest February
howling green
with the blue frozen moon
a duet
to make colors run’.
It has certainly run away with your imagination!
Thank you Kim! 🙂 I use rich teals frequently in creating my Serenity Totems… find it a chameleon of a shade, changing emotions of the viewer by the depth of it’s shade, and the color matched with it in my mixed-media work.
A rip-roaring ride through the colour teal, Rob! I especially like:
‘the inescapable optimism
in my barebones grin
flashes teal’
It is a very optimistic colour, and I hope you’re feeling it!
Thank you so much Ingrid. I am quite teal in recent days… 🙂
Wow; you really did teal justice.
I happen to have some tea(l) lights at home too 😉
Well done, Rob!
-David
One of my favorite colors David, along with Azure-Green.
Wow! So much there. These are my favourite lines;
in coldest February
howling green
with the blue frozen moon
a duet
to make colors run
and coyotes
cower in their dens
beautiful and ethereal and mystical and cold
Thsnk you OTC, very much! 🙂
I can’t describe how much I love this “real-teal,” Rob 🙂 You have given the color such a dynamic personality! Especially adore; “moon and I are friends we run through your dreams from room to imaginary room your whole world
close enough to touch.”
Thank you Sanaa! I went on a SOC journey to find the real teal.
So deep and surreal! I’ve gone with a stream of consciousness poem too, nice coincidence (^_^)
Thank you Jay! I will check yours out… 🙂
I love how you went so deep into that hue that is both so well known but still ambiguous when set against the primary colors.
Thank you Bjorn, just tarrying with teal…
“Teal” very cool. And the layer of psychological self-exposure are fun.
Thank you Sabio… 🙂
what a mystical stream of consciousness, love so many of the phrases you used. I went teal also but it contrasts with your gentle drift!
Thank you Kate… 🙂
“ignite the light” — I do believe you have.
🙂
Rob,
I never knew teal till you communicated in teal, and its a trickster alright. I mean, right away you want to ask, are you blue or green?! That is to say, I loved this!
Pax,
Dora
Thank you Dora… 🙂