When you see the woods
And world in purple
Or when creatures
Soft in their solitude —
Disturbed by caws of fowls.
It’s not impossible —
A cause is pink of pills
And lacking sleep
In your lowest slow of summer
Purple Leaves by Georgia O’Keeffe
Today Jilly is guest prompting at dVerse MTB. We are asked to respond to another Poets poem, and mine is a response to Emily Dickenson... Obviously being a bit flippant on her poem (sorry for that).
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January 18, 2018
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Oh, this is wonderfully wicked! Pink of pills and lack of sleep – clever and brilliant.
Methinks it could be the lowest slow of winter, too. The art reminds me of O’Keefe.
Duh. It is O’Keefe, I just noticed!
🙂
All of the above, Bjorn!
Slow and soft ….Enjoyed the read too Bjorn ~
That came out beautifully!
Her poem would sound like something written by a hippie on acid if it was written today. That’s an ideal response. I liked the pink of pills. He poem makes me wonder what she was smoking that day
She does have a gloriously weird way with words. I hope it was all from her own brain and she wasn’t hitting the opium bottle. 😉 Nicely done, you captured the trance-like quality of her poem.
A slow trudge through a syrupy dream, or Alice’s wonderland!
You entertain like the Dickens(on), Bjorn!
Absolutely gorgeous, Bjorn.
I liked this description “pink of pills”.
Very soporiphic and spaced-out. The words made me want to take-off and float like a petal, ever mind the caws of fowls 🙂
A great response- and full of colour!
Pink of pills! A wonderful response.
Why apologize, Bjorn? This is a delight! I can imagine an Emily Dickenson transposed to this modern world laughing out loud to your response! 🙂
Emily would love it! I like, pink of pills very much.
A clever response…I enjoyed reading your poem and then reading it’s inspiration.
so totally loved pink of pills… purples and pinks are always welcome in my world
I love Em D for her hypnotic verse and Bjorn you mimicked it perfectly with a very contemporary twist. using the purple wood to link the two in my mind’s eye they are like a twin stanza.
Wonderful, Bjorn!
I miss a comma after the word “lowest” in the last line. And I miss your iambs.
I wondered how to comment on this one, Bjørn. I did not get it by my first reading. You point at something important, though, and I got it after seeing this drawing on Google+ : https://plus.google.com/114900954377477267209/posts/MqRbD2kQiyf.
I mimicked the style of Emily D… no commas there… the purple woods are hers.
Interesting.