[Stylist] Poem: Rainbow Revolution

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Jackie, so blank verse has to be iambic pentameter? 
Yes, you figured out there are seven syllables in each line with seven lines in each stanza and seven stanzas. Each element: earth, sun, fire (spark), sky, air, water and plant start lines 1, 6 and 7 of  various stanzas. 
Wow! Did I have to do a LOT research in writing that thing! It was VERY fascinating. 
Barbara Hammel

> On Dec 6, 2018, at 17:47, Jackie via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Barbara,
> It is so good to have a poem from you.
> As usual your colors and the mediums that display them are charming.
> For me, it does not match the definition of blank verse which is iambic
> pentameter. Yes, it is unrhymed which it has to be.
> I seem to count seven syllables with a varying meter in most of the lines.
> some are iambic.
> however, these are technicalities. If you do not call it blank verse, it
> remains exceptional. 
> Our poetry does not have to have a form, but if I have missed identifying
> this one of your invention, I would love to know.
> I write a great deal of form poetry just because it provides a roadmap for
> my blindness.
> Please keep writing your poetry about colors. You have a gift in what you
> see.
> 
> Jacqueline Williams
> 
> Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill.
>     Jenny Xie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
> HAMMEL via Stylist
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> Cc: Barbara HAMMEL <poetlori8 at msn.com>
> Subject: [Stylist] Poem: Rainbow Revolution
> 
> Here is my latest plunge into my favorite subject to write about when
> nothing else seems to want to be written about.  This one didn't want to be
> written for about a month, eitherIt has a unique form that is all its own,
> but it does have form.  LOL!  Can you figure out some of them?  It is blank
> verse; I will tell you that.
> Barbara Hammel
> 
> 
>  RAINBOW REVOLUTION
> By Barbara Hammel
> 
> Earth has hidden a rainbow,
> Precious treasures safely tucked:
> Citrine, lapis lazuli,
> Emerald, ruby, amethyst,
> Sapphire and carnelian.
> Earth gives up her precious stones,
> Sun reflects fire in their hearts.
> 
> Sun lights rainbow fire in stones,
> Bulbs strung on a Christmas tree:
> Twinkling azure, carrot, lime,
> Lemon, saxe, cherry and grape,
> Brightening the early dusks,
> Sun gives up prismatic fire,
> Spark flashes hues in the night.
> 
> Spark explodes in colored fire,
> Spangling the darkened heavens,
> Salts of copper, strontium,
> Barium and cesium,
> Calcium and sodium.
> Spark gives up rainbow colors,
> Sky captures their beauty there.
> 
> Sky gathers glowing colors
> Up in the seven-band arc:
> Red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
> Indigo and violet.
> After the storm has ended,
> Sky gives up beautiful hues.
> Air carries bits of glory.
> 
> Air cradles bright airborne hues,
> Flying on wing, floating song:
> Bunting and marten and jay,
> Cardinal and parakeet,
> Canary and oriole.
> Air gives up befeathered tints,
> Water reflects their image.
> 
> Water conveys brushed on tints,
> Paintbox pigments or dyes: woad,
> Saffron, cinnabar, cobalt,
> Madder, malachite, murex.
> Oil, acrylic, stroke by stroke.
> Water gives up painted shades,
> Plant bursts into grand bouquet.
> 
> Plant blooms in glorious shades
> Spilling perfume on the wind:
> Chrysanthemum, daffodil,
> Zinnia, forget-me-not, rose,
> Gentian and lilac. How sweet!
> Plant gives up garden rainbow,
> Earth conceals in hidden vaults.
> 
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