Originally Posted, Saturday, August 21, 2010
For your color poem:
Begin by taking a “color inventory”
of your life. What colors do you like to live with? If you had to live
with a single color what would it be? What is your favorite color? What
colors do you associate with the best or worst times of your life? What colors
do you associate with people, places, experiences? Following are ten
possibilities for color poems:
1.
Write a poem about a color without naming the color and without using one of
its synonyms (for example, don’t use “crimson” in place of “red” or “azure” in
place of “blue”).
2. What color is your life? Write
a poem about your life’s color(s).
3. Write about an experience
using colors to set the “tone.”
4. Compare a relationship to a
color.
5. Compare a person to a
color.
6. Compare your job (or creative
work) to a color.
7. What is your life’s “rainbow?”
8. Write a poem about a place
(scene, landscape) and use colors to highlight descriptions and details.
9. Think about implied colors as
in Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” Wordsworth only mentions “golden”
once, but the sense of “yellow” is strongly present throughout the poem. Try
this in a poem of your own. Click Here to Read Wordsworth's Poem
10. As an alternative to color,
write a poem about something colorless.
Very nice, Adele! The Wordsworth poem you mention is one of my favourites!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jamie! The Wordsworth poem was my mom's favorite.
DeleteI love this prompt. Colour can be the inspiration for so many unexpected ideas, I'm still jotting them down. Thank you, Adele.
ReplyDelete~ ~ ~
Light Reflected
Framed by a sunny afternoon window
mothers watercolour arrangement of flowers
brought in from the garden and carefully placed
in a Japanese vase
where children under a cherry tree
point at the dragon on the roof of a bamboo tea-house
she never had the chance to visit
only to paint on fine-grained paper
with respect to light reflected.
So glad you like this prompt, Lewis! And, as always, thank you for sharing your poem! Wonderful "dismount."
DeleteFrom the second line, I have removed the word 'watercolour' and placed it on the eighth. Along with a few corrections.
DeleteLight Reflected
Framed by a sunny afternoon window
mother's arrangement of flowers
brought in from the garden and carefully placed
in a Japanese vase
where children under a cherry tree
point at the dragon on the roof of a bamboo tea-house
she never had the chance to visit
only to paint on fine-grain watercolour paper
with respect to light reflected.
good calls on your part! So interesting to see the process of revision. Thanks for sharing this with us, Lewis!
DeleteI really like this prompt and am finding it very relaxing to listen and write. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSo glad Sandy—thanks for your comment!
DeleteRed Dawn
ReplyDeleteall my troubles melt
with another day's dawning
perhaps it will rain
Love this, Risa! So much nuance created by the last line! Thank you for sharing this with us.
DeleteWow! Risa,
Delete"perhaps it will rain", spellbinding.