Poetry
Poetry
Blue is not only filmed — it is also written. Every year, the festival runs a poetry competition and publishes an anthology of the finalists’ poems.
Competition closed · closed on 31 December 2025
2026 poetry competition
The 2026 Bleu Paris poetry competition is now closed.
From its launch until 31 December 2025,
we received 225 poems from all over the world.
225 singular voices.
225 ways of seeing.
225 ways of inhabiting the same colour.
They shared just one thing:
BLUE.
Intimate blue, political blue, celestial blue, melancholy blue.
The blue of memories, the blue of bodies, the blue of silences.
Each text explored the colour as a sensitive territory, a living material.
Winner
The winner of the poetry competition
L’écran nous reflète encore
La magie qui panse la peine,
l’hôpital des pans de cœur
et il pleut dans mes cœurs
Je vois des pellicules ce soir,
les générations aussi
assis dans le noir avant la mienne,
attendant patiemment
que l’écran prenne vie.
Il était d’une couleur
il était bleu.
Kathleen Mezo
An actor and writer, Kathleen Mezo has built an artistic world that is both instinctive and deeply sensitive. Writing has always been a necessity for her: a way of turning lived experience into words, or into a stage presence.
Her work explores intimate themes, often tied to love, loss and the search for oneself. She blends them with a romantic aesthetic, sometimes tinged with the gothic, where passion, tenderness and sincerity meet.
In 2026 she published her first poetry collection, Je me perds, donc je suis (I lose myself, therefore I am), with Les Bonnes Feuilles. An introspective book that questions identity and emotions on the threshold of adulthood.
Her artistic approach is rooted in feeling. Starting from precise memories or raw emotions, she first lets an instinctive flow of words emerge, then reworks it to reveal its musicality and coherence.
Blue
For Kathleen Mezo, blue is a gentle melancholy, never frozen in sadness. A living, almost electric colour that runs through emotions and images.
In her poem, blue becomes a meeting point between her two passions: literature and cinema.
Written on a train, over the course of a journey, the text took shape in a state of letting go, carried by the music of Cinema Paradiso.
The result is a tender evocation of the love of cinema, in which blue embodies the screen — that space onto which emotions and memories are projected.