Poetic Colours of France O – Blue

VOWELS, Arthur Rimbaud

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;

E, candour of sand pavilions, 
High glacial spears, white kings, trembling Queen 
Anne’s lace;


I, bloody spittle, laughter dribbling from a face, 
In wild denial or in anger. Vermillions.

U, Divine movement of viridian seas,
Peace of pastures animal-strewn,
peace of calm lines
Drawn on foreheads worn with heavy alchemies;
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O, Supreme Trumpet, harsh with strange stridencies,
Silences traced in angels and astral designs:
O, Omega…the violet light of His Eyes!