Monday, March 1, 2010

The poem shown below was written by me in class. I was simply looking around for an idea-sparker, when I realized one thing that all things I saw possessed-(you guessed it)-colour! It was the first inspiration of mine to begin writing a longer short-story, which I'm working on now. You don't have to respond on this writing, but try and put yourself in the place of the person in the poem and see what the colours are representing. :)



Colours

Deep, warm, intricate, dazzling,
Colours are everywhere
How could we imagine life without colour?!
They’re everywhere we look, really,
From the plants of the ground, to clothing, houses, even the sky
There are infinite colour shades, fanned out for us to choose from
‘Red’ isn’t just ‘red,’
Its cranberry red, fire-engine red, sunset red,
Its baby blue, waterfall blue, butterfly blue, navy blue

She goes to the hardware store and stares at the hundreds of colour panels,
looking at each unique and creative name
She longs to take home one of each,
But decide it would be impossible
So she becomes destined but content to simply gaze at them,
Filling her mind to the brim with colours,
Until colours start to run over and trickle down
Her forehead,
Then her chin,
Until her entire beings is simply dripping with joy
She runs outside and wherever her smile shines,
There is colour
Wherever her music is sung,
There is colour
The colours are sliding down to her toes,
Swimming and mixing together,
Swirling and making new and undiscovered colours
She brushes past others and the colours travel on,
From person to person,
Until the whole world is lit up by colours

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