Saturday 10 April 2021

Ethereal Blue

 

Written for Paul Brookes' ekphrastic challenge - one poem a day in April 2021. 
 
The art work for this day is "Ethereal Blue" by Kerfe Roig




Ethereal Blue

My dreams are blue. My nightmares are blue.
Wherein I am locked in a blue room with muslin
walls. The floor is water and I enter without splashing.
I breathe in and blueness enters my lungs, turns
my tongue and blood to blue. 

Tim Fellows 2021
 
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