A section of a long poem marked "Second Delirium: Alchemy of the Word" places the words "black," "white," "red," "blue," and "green" after each of these things.
These things title a poem whose speaker calls humans "loveless vessels," since "we sell / loose vows / so we love / less well." That poem is found in the "Oiseau" section of Eunoia, a collection in which each chapter is limited to just one of these things, written by the Canadian poet Christian Bok. Images of "blood spat, lovely lips laughing / In anger or penitential ecstasies" and "the last Trumpet, strange crescendo blast, / Navigated silences of Worlds and Angels" evoke these things in a poem promising them that "One day I'll tell your (*) embryonic births." A section of a long poem marked "Second Delirium: Alchemy of the Word" places the words "black," "white," "red," "blue," and "green" after each of these things. For 10 points, the speaker of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell claims to have invented colors for what speech sounds, which are omitted in lipogrammatic texts like George Perec's novel A Void
These things title a poem whose speaker calls humans "loveless vessels," since "we sell / loose vows / so we love / less well."
vowels [prompt on letters]