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By Robin NewbreyPublished 5 years ago 1 min read

Touched by colors

The priest of the painter inspires me still

Whether the lines are red or holographic-silver&blue,

for him, you and my own free will,

lettuce be holographic – any color any hue.

Cool if we feel it,

when were you?

For me, I think it happened at a parade of life.

There was a young black man calmly and very cool, pouring out his rap in front of a signpost.

His song was willful, colorful and hopeful and

I willfully and consensually liked it. It was the colors of him, his music, the amazing

Parades winding everywhere

All directions all colors

Were you

touched by a brilliant color,

willfully and consensually,

sometimes repeatedly touched

e.t. barnun, said, “the ‘best’ poetry is holographic,

the actual essence of the whole somehow molecularly present in each piece,

and then it, we, us becomes more as it is read,

copied out, touched back by someone,

And then, again

Not unlike Schroedinger’s cat,

This Barnun copied out this poem about a painter,

Kurt Vonnegut, the painter, quoted a priest.

Juan Ramirez, who was known to say

“If they give you ruled paper,

write the other way.”

use your free will to color

Every day

Poet Mohammed El-Kurd says the same thing a different way, so does the journalist interviewing him, “Speaking out may help and not speaking out will not protect you

More holographic poetry at: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/5/13/mohammed_el_kurd_sheikh_jarrah_jerusalemPoet Mohammed El-Kurd Detained in Sheikh Jarrah After Condemning Israeli Apartheid on U.S. TV | Democracy Now!

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About the Creator

Robin Newbrey

Scribe for E.T. Barnum who copies poetry. More later.

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