Welcome!
All kaleidoscopes by inkspired and KaleidoCam
The rose is red, the violet’s blue,
The honey’s sweet, and so are you.
Thou art my love and I am thine,
I drew thee to my valentine:
The lot was cast and then I drew,
And fortune said it should be you.
- 1784
Red:
Passion
Intense
Dominant
Primary
Brilliant
A Lady red - amid the Hill
Her annual secret keeps!
A Lady white, within the Field
In placid Lily sleeps!
The tidy Breezes, with their Brooms -
Sweep vale - and hill - and tree!
Prithee, my pretty Housewives!
Who may expected be?
The Neighbors do not yet suspect!
The Woods exchange a smile!
Orchard and Buttercup, and Bird -
In such a little while!
And yet, how still the Landscape stands!
How nonchalant the Hedge!
As if the “Resurrection”
Were nothing very strange!
- 1879, Emily Dickinson
Red Maple tree
rooi - Afrikaans
rood - Dutch
rojo - Spanish
ado’m - Hebrew
Summer Tanager; photo cred: Tara Tanaka
rouge - French
bomvu - Zulu
rot - German
czerwony - Polish
hongse` - Chinese
crven - Croatian
ppalgan - Korean
sur - Pashto
‘Mermaid’s Night on the Town’ recycled junk mail collage by inkspired
dearg - Irish
aka - Japanese
d’o - Vietnamese
cherven - Bulgarian
Vestiaire Collective
1920’s evening gown
Build-Your-Own-Art; Mercuri
ahmar - Arabic
merah - Indonesian
nyekundu - Swahili
rasu - Romanian
Robert Vivier, Nordstrom’s
Sandra Oh, Screen Guild Actor’s Awards
ghermez - Farsi
krasny - Russian
laal - Hindu
sarkans - Latvian
‘My love is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my love is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune…’
- Robert Burns, possibly adapting an existing folk song
1937 Cord 810 Beverly
punainen - Finnish
lal - Bengali
raudonas - Lithuanian
daeng - Thai
NYC Dance Project; photo cred: Ken Browar & Deborah Ory
Recycled postage stamp art by inkspired
Godinger, Macy’s
vermelho - Portuguese
sivappu - Tamil
sur - Pashto
rout - Luxembourgish
kirmizi - Turkish
chervonyy - Ukranian
pula - Filipino
rato - Nepalese
Virtual Paperdolls
Red Dragon Beta; credit: Jirawat Plekhongthu
The Red Wheelbarrow
‘so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens’
- William Carlos Williams
1883-1963
one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement
Vintage advertisement
Vintage advertisement
merah - Malaycoch - Welsh
casaan - Somalian
piros - Hungarian
‘Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font.
The firefly wakens; waken thou with me…’
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
A Persian form of poetry called ghazal,
a form of love poetry usually sung.
Painted rock cottage by inkspired
BagForLove
Painted rock by inkspired
I hope you have enjoyed this little venture into the color red as much as I have enjoyed putting it together.
‘Til next time,
inkspired
A few of the websites I visited for this blog, in no particular order:
Pinterest
interestingliterature.com
Reddit.com
lexiglobe.com
