Colour Perception

Colour Perception- ALK 6/5/21

I don’t have synesthesia

I can’t taste or hear colour

However teal feels

Like bathing in calm

My eyes drinking in her abundance

Yellow is sometimes too sunny

Her parading joy and energy

Clashing with my melancholy

White represents women’s solidarity

Sadly suffragette action is still needed

Warm white light fills me with

‘Hygge’

Cold blue white light feels like

Interrogation

Red bodly ignites passion, anger,

Blood and sass

Funny how for me

Red lipstick has become a feminist act

Blue, you are a colour of contrasts

Oceans, rivers, ice bergs, lakes

I sink in your cool embrace

Yet you are the hottest part of the flame

A moment of bliss gazing up into the blue sky

The hue of blue marking geographical location

Sydney’s light blue sky contrasts

The deep blue Southern Tasmania sky

Reminiscent of childhood skies in Norway, on the rare days it wasn’t raining.

All colours unite in brown

I yearn to place constraints on my toddler’s creativity

My sense of beauty and form

Trumped by her sensory experience

Watching her delightful swirls of colour

All become brown

The concept of colour

Shifts from person to person

Grey skies bring delight to my puddle loving daughter

For me not so much

My husband and I

Can’t even agree on what the colours are called

His green is my blue

His parents argue over the very same hue

Suggesting colour perception

Lies in our DNA