Tu es rouge,
même noire parfois,
grise très souvent.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
The NaPoWriMo prompt at Poetry Super Highway for today, April 18, was:
même noire parfois,
grise très souvent.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2015)
The NaPoWriMo prompt at Poetry Super Highway for today, April 18, was:
Write a Rothko.For some strange reason, it instantly occurred to me to write this in French. Rule no. 1 was violated because I had no Rothko around to stand in front of. (The one we keep on the floor next to the bed is currently at the cleaner's.) But I pictured myself in front of one.
1. A Rothko (poem) can only be written while standing in front of a Rothko (painting).
2. A Rothko is three lines, three words per line.
3. Three of these nine words must be colors, and their position in the poem must be a tic-tac-toe.
4. Like all rules of poetry, break at your own risk.
