The Way of Color

[Weeded]

Middle: Green-yellow clash,
it's eternal.
West: Purple, so royal.
Beautiful purpose.
East: Red, final stop
of human perception.

[Emz]

This is interesting.

At first I was wondering if it were a political commentary on certain places of our world. I would make that argument, but I don't know if I could follow through convincingly.

Emma

[Pyrra]

I believe it is simply stating the visible spectrum.
It is a rainbow.

[Pyrra]

I apologise for double-posting, but after sending the first post; I thought of how poor it was.

No, this poem is not "simply" stating the visible spectrum, it is doing so in a way it inspires me. The blending of "science" with ideas finding no space in science is something poetry is able to do like nothing else.

The titel is ambiguous. Not only will the poem set the outlines of the visible spectrum, it will also aproximatly give "the direction" (or the place?) of where the colours are coming from. Even the cardinal directions given will make complete sense.

West - Where the sun sets - Where the light ends: Here we have purple. Light is having a purpose now (for us), it is starting to be visible.
East - Where the sun rises - Where the light starts: Here we have red. after red the visible spectrum will end.
Middle - literally everything else, eternal, going from yellow (if you include all colors that need yellow) to green (if you include all colors needed for green).

The more I think about it, the more I like it.

[billy]

i'm afraid to say it's meaning has eluded me.

[Weeded]

Billy thats cuz this one can't allude to any form of sex Emz was spot on.

[Pyrra]

Hi Weed,

I just have to ask now, did you get me mixed up with Emz? If not, I would be really interested to know what the political statements were.

[Achebe]

the only issue is see is that red is also one of the main Islamic colours, after green, and certainly more so than yellow. not to mention that the Israeli flag is blue on white.
the Islamic standard is, of course, black. so 'green-yellow-black-red-blue clash' would be more like it.

[Weeded]

Pyrra,
well this poem is just going off a prediction so I guess it's only personal understanding but Middle is referenced to the middle of the color spectrum which is referenced to the Middle East and its inner conflicts(As well as Red/Easts close relationship), West is referenced to Europe and America and its supposed purpose in the Bible if you're into that sorta stuff its Revelations:12-13. Just personal interpretation, but yeah purple reminds me of royalty, soo beautiful(can i explain it like that.. lol)? and East like Red, like Russia and China, like those crazy fuckers probably gonna start the shit that we mark as the end(if you're Christian). Also where the visible color spectrum ends. Fact I probably had to explain all this means the poem probably fails buttt, hope this explains lol.
mike

[Pyrra]

Wow. Words are amazing. I completly failed to see this, but now you have explained it is very clear.