Reduction

The sky is blue.

Grass is green.

The sun is yellow.

Fire is orange.

Blood is red.

Flowers are purple.

 

It’s so strange how

Inconcrete purple is.

It must be how it was attributed to royalty.

The other five colors are so vivid in nature.

But, purple exists somewhere else,

Except on a flower, and only some.

 

What interests me

Is how Sky and Sun

Are given “the”

As an article.

Somewhere, in elementary school

We were taught this rule

That persists till even now.

I don’t know if anyone can really

Remember exactly how they were taught it.

Some vivid construct of a classroom

Appears in my mind.

 

We were taught the colors of the rainbow;

I don’t really understand indigo.

It just looks like dark blue.

 

How obscure it gets in details

Though.

Grass is green, but turns tan in the winter.

The sky is periwinkle, but has all the colors of the rainbow when it sets.

The sun can be white when shown through clouds.

It can be red or orange, too; larger when red than yellow..

Fire builds from blue at its base to yellow at its crest.

Blood is red, but veins are blue.

But, still, purple is so much less concrete than all of this.

 

It doesn’t surprise me that languages

Have a hard time distinguishing color

From their start.

Their separation is something that gets more advanced

As the cultures grow.

Pink, Brown, White, Black, Gray, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Tan, Indigo, Periwinkle, Gold, Silver, Copper, Brass,— The list goes on from there.

It amazes me how just recently we discovered all of the colors

All of them. And not all of them have a name.

But, there is still metallic colors.

There is still Mauve—the opalescent color of Blue and Violet all at once.

There is still a lot of things we do not know about color…

Yet, purple becomes more concrete as we find it.

 

Metaphors do this same thing.