Philip,
A very interesting poem. A further comment on the subjective nature of
experience with far-reaching implications. (As a bonus for me I have often
asked colour-blind people how it was in their world; or at least I used to
ask when I was callow enough not to fear intrusion and I never did get as
good an answer as the one given by the protagonist in your poem.) Of course
there are many other colours than no human can see.
Colin
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> Subject: New Submission: THE SIGHT OF AUTUMN
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> THE SIGHT OF AUTUMN...
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> - A Villanelle
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> I'm red-green colour-blind -
> 'colour challenged' be it said.
> You think I'll be left behind
> when a palette as unkind
> as Autumn's rears its head.
>
> I'm red-green colour-blind
> so russets must incline
> to nothing much instead?
> You think I'll be left behind.
>
> But in my canopy of mind
> bright green is received as red.
> I'm red-green colour-blind
> but I see green enshrined
> in brown that, to you, is dead.
>
> You think I'll be left behind
> by October leaves, yet I find
> their charm uncomplicated.
> I'm red-green colour-blind.
> You think I'll be left behind.
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