Poetic Colors of France – A

Rimbaud thought the vowels have colours. I’m not sure but his native country certainly does. Here is a gallery of french colours set to his poem. (I’ll do this in stages so you don’t get tired of it.)

Vowels

Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O – vowels. 

Some day I will open your silent pregnancies:


A, black belt, hairy with burst flies,
Bumbling and buzzing over stinking cruelties,
Pits of night;