So I learned from Festival Of The Spoken Nerd that technically purple doesn’t exist.
I say DOWN with this blasphemy.
Do you believe in purple?
Do you have faith in in the shade
That makes your eyes deduce
its presence in the space
Between red/blue/not red/not blue?
Do you?
I said do you believe?
Do you believe in purple?
They’ll tell you it’s not real
Oh those unbelievers!
They’ll say that your rods and your cones
Would deceive you
No!
Though you’ll never find
This colour sublime
On no lowly spectrum line.
You must
Put your trust
In the mauve
The violet
The lavender
The lilac
Yes even the heliotrope!
To see it, you have to believe
I said do you BELIEVE?
Because once the miracle enters you,
Here,
Right behind your cornea?
Oh, my children,
It’s here.
It’s here.
And it’s never going to leave.
Tom Juniper Poetry 