COLORS Falling from the Sky

This week we are featuring a poet. I often feel that poetry is misunderstood so I asked award winning poet Adriana Batista to explain her motivation behind her poetry series called ‘COLORS’. In her explanation, she talks about the significance of emotions and how she expressed them using colour. Take a moment to slowly read her poetry and the story behind this poem.

When I first met Adrianna I took the time to select the poem’s I wanted her to read on Radiante FM radio interview and I ended up spending 2 hours of wonderful entertainment, discussing her poetry with my best friend. That’s when you know that poetry is good, when it is a catalyst for a juicy conversation like that!

Says Adriana:

These two poems I share today are part of my poetry book titled COLORS published in the United States by Xlibris. This book combines images with poems and each page is different in the design presented. The characteristics in these pieces are the metaphors using images that play with colors, fruits, geometrical figures, shapes, and textures. The themes in these pieces are related to feelings of love, sadness, passion, joy, and happiness as they are linked to our everyday life emotions and feelings.

These poems describe situations where feelings and mood play an important role in the literary manifestation that mixes colors with diverse feelings. As an example, in the poem “Velvet in Blue” the poem uses fruits and colors to describe joy, happiness, and the meaning of love like in the metaphor that states:

“A white moon in my hands

Unwraps a piece of peace

That makes me touch the sky

A velvet feeling in blue…”

The moon is white representing the transparency of the feelings of love which joy can let you touch the sky in a “velvet feeling in blue…” that means also a peaceful emotion. The use of fruits in this piece is also a metaphor for how love can be felt and comparing these feelings with the flavors of such fruits. The fruits bring tangible flavors to the poems that can be associated with emerging aromas as perfumes that surround the feelings expressed in this piece.

In the second piece, the image of “colors falling down from the ceiling” is used to describe emotions dropping as rain that surrounds us with no other choice than accept them in a rainbow of colors that describe emotions “when all of us are surrounded by sadness.”

This collection of poems is the outcome of diverse dialogues with the shadows of the nocturnal hours when nobody is awake, and they were created by playing with the structure of each poem making diverse rhythms when reading these pieces in a loud voice.

The reaction of the readers to these poems has been positive because they identified with the images and themes presented in this collection; some readers have expressed their experiences reading these poems and as they related to the images presented in this collection as joyful in where they can almost smell the fruits, feel the texture of the metaphors and analogies presented and grasp the meaning of each piece.

My main concern as an author, is always to play with the structure of the poems by experimenting with the language and its possibilities when expressing emotions and diverse feelings. COLORS is an example of the possibilities that language offers us to express ourselves.

Velvet in Blue

I have shining thoughts

Red watermelons in my head

Spinning happiness

Around the clock

A white moon in my hands

Unwraps a piece of peace

That makes me touch the sky

A velvet feeling in blue

Emerging from the night

Purple kisses like grapes

Awake a peach passion

While shiny thoughts arise

In a tangerine moment

Happiness inside out

Apples like nipples falling down

On the surface of the skin

Liquid desires in orange

Warm the nightly clouds

Gentle nocturnal voices

Repeated backs arms and legs

On the tip of the fingers

Dripping thoughts

Look above the colors

Mango kisses on the mouth

Take every night fear

Restoring the smiles naked

A kiss is trapped in the sky

While the clock goes around

Shiny feelings arrive

My name between your thighs

Watermelons in my head

Announce a happy day

While the clock just goes…

and goes around your waist.

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III

Colors are falling down from the ceiling

The walls are full of shadows

Purple and blue are breaking down

Last names appear with no shame

Stories are painted in red and orange

Events pass by in green and gray

The walls joke around with no pain

Letting the halftones out of the game

While the black and white take over

Packing all the baggage in light blue

Brown orange and yellow

Repeat the legs arms and shoulders

While nobody knows where to go

Pink arises like faith and hope

Nobody believes in the sunny sky

Dark red recovers the pieces

While light blue is trying hard

To make sense in the yellow morning

When all of us are surrounded by sadness.

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Julie Ann is the founder of Influence Publishing Inc, corporation from Vancouver, Canada.  She has lived in Puerto Vallarta for 5 years and is the owner of the Mexican Corporation, Casa de Influencia S.A. de C.V. which is a retreat and event center based in Old Town, Puerto Vallarta.  She hosts writing retreats and writing classes at the center. 

Check in next week to read the fascinating story of Victor and catch his interview tomorrow on Radiante FM 98.3. Victor Aguirre is a great example of a non-fiction book that tells an inspiring life journey and a great example of a compelling book title that tells the story : From Prison to Principle.