Today we are gong to experiment with Synesthesia, particularly the color of music. A while back I listened to The Well Podcast, produced by Anson Mount and Branan Edgens who had Melissa McCracken as a guest. She said when she was fifteen she had a navy blue phone and she wanted a ringtone that would match it, a warm color to go with the cool color to balance it. She was looking through her iTunes and saw a Michael Jackson song, Cheater, and thought well, the song was orange so it would work perfectly. When she brought it up to a friend he had no clue what she was talking about. A couple of years later she discovered she had Synesthesia. To sum it up as simply as I can, when Melissa listens to music she sees it in colors. Immediately I thought about the psychedelic 60's. (No, not the mind bending drug part, the color part.) The psychedelic art combined with music.
So all this brings me to today's challenge. I have provided the following songs and I want you to choose one and listen to it. Visualize the lyrics, the music, and discover what colors you see or what colors come to mind and write a poem from that color wheel. Please indicate which song you chose. (If the videos don't show up in the post for you, choose a song, listen to it and find the color(s) it brings to mind. Please indicate your song choice.)
So my toad friends after you've word colored a song into a poem, visit your other poet friends to read (see) the colors in their poems.
