Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem based on the Plath Poetry Project’s calendar. Simply pick a poem from the calendar, and then write a poem that responds or engages with your chosen Plath poem in some way.
The poem by Sylvia Plath – Crossing the Water is what I have selected. In this poem Plath continues her recent obsession with the color black. Black being my favorite colour but of course for different reasons, I am sharing a poem I wrote some time back.
It’s my perception of Black. I have tried to engage and respond to Plath’s dichotomy of dark and light in all of us, but on a not-so-serious tone.
BLACK
A mysterious colour so unknown
It’s a part of me and within my soul
consuming me at times
till I open my windows
To stream some light
I like it more on my outside though
Covering my circumference
To a leaner glow
And for compliments
that I adore;
when I embrace you
Outside my core.
It absorbs me, it fills
On it’s own wit and will.
A mysterious colour so unknown
What happens inside a Black hole ?
Or Black money found at every pole ?
Few colourless – blackmail some souls
Is the night only black ? ! I am doubtful though.
Why then that day was called a black day
When humanity wore a cold colour
To see red – to end some lives
Oh for which colour do we fight ?
Black is mystery beyond our thoughts
Close your eyes to feel it within
Rub them closed to see the phosphenes
C’mon be intuitive – it’s in your genes
Black has a lot to offer
Only if you could reach
It holds within a different promise
See if you could unleash.
Preeti S Manaktala
You could read the original poem here – http://www.internal.org/Sylvia_Plath/Crossing_the_Water
Beautifully written xx
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