Black Diamonds and the Benefits of Ylang Ylang
"Black Diamonds and the Benefits of Ylang Ylang"
The prescription
was to write
black diamonds
against the pale
antidote
cutting glass
precisely, words
gargled slowly
she bled
diagnosis
Jung
and the benefits
of Ylang Ylang
Feeling all the colours
inside of
Black
A body of work
Arms arrested
legs spread
against the white board
Byzantine Blue
(LadyLabyrinth/ 2020)
“Colors” / Beck
https://youtu.be/WRCA_Fo0rWA
"In times like ours, where the growing complexity
of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers,
where the map of Europe has endured profound
rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink
of enduring yet others, where so many threatening
and new problems appear everywhere,
you will admit it may be demanded of a writer
that he be more than a fine wit
who makes us forget
in idle and byzantine discussions
on the merits of pure form."
Marcel Proust
“I'll find you and go right through walls we made...”
http://www.elizabethmoon.com/writing-depression.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cananga_odorata
The name ylang-ylang is derived from the Tagalog term for the tree, ilang-ilang - a reduplicative form of the word ilang, meaning "wilderness"
LYRICS/ "Colors", Beck
https://genius.com/Beck-colors-lyrics
Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2020
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