Cobalt Violet

With white flowers of Hibiscus tiliaceus purau blooming in the morning, yet, With colors varying during the day until they fall from the tree at night, Those colors change to yellow, pink, fuchsia, purple, and finally violet. With blue, violet, or brown mountains, depending on the light. With endless lagoons having an incomparable luminosity and hues varying From jade green to turquoise tinged with violet, subjugating our eyes, With a very long string of islets, in the middle of the ocean lying And reef shores with red anemones, violet sea urchins, and giant shells. On Noonday, the lagoon flames of cobalt, Viridian, and agate seared the sight With a glare of shining sun along the beaches, but having an amethystine glimmer, And the cobalt changing to Murex, the Viridian to green-purple in the night Keeping so vivid in the moonlight the hyacinthine hues of the peaks across the river. With mauve coral reefs and rose, violet pearls, as the mystical realms Tahiti comes itself in the pearly light of a sunrise dawn for purifying With villages glowing against shadows of violet within the forest of palms, Shuddering for the gladness of the wind, through the water singing. Hibiscus syriacus flower, cobalt violet Fischer, and amethyst are certainly violet, But a unique cobalt violet used Gauguin to paint Tahiti along with emerald green. He watched the pure color with his professional eye, at dawn with ultraviolet And his paintings are not only famous but more beautiful than I have ever seen. Copyright © ® Marieta Maglas. All rights reserved