Poem: "The Color of Faraway Mountains"

[ysabetwordsmith]

This poem came out of the August 3, 2010 Poetry Fishbowl.  It was inspired and sponsored by marina_bonomi.  This poem belongs to the "Origami Mage" series.  The origami fortuneteller was part of the original promt.  The color names and symbolism come primarily from Mandarin Chinese, though I had to piece them together from multiple sources.  The exact

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[red_trillium]

I really like this one, the imagery, the incorporation of colours as divination along with what was to me a childhood game with those folded 'fortune tellers' we made.