As a visual artist, my color wheel is one of my most used tools. As a writer, the way I use color, the way I describe it, has the ability to set the mood and to allow the reader to visualize what I am describing.
What color is a frog?
According to Kermit, it’s not easy being green, having to spend each day the color of leaves.
I considered writing this prompt about the viral internet argument about the dress. You know the one I’m talking about, right? Maybe there’s a poem to be written about it.
THE PROMPT:
Select a random noun. When you see an image of this person/place/thing, what color is it? Brainstorm the different ways the color can be described. Write a poem to help us see something in color through your eyes. Use an appropriately sourced and credited image of your chosen noun to illustrate your poem.
color
shade
tone
color theory
design
Remember that our prompts are only suggestions - go wherever the muse takes you.
In the meantime, read other participants' poems, share the #OctPoWriMo hashtag on social media, and add a link to your own poem in the comments below.
Amy McGrath is a poet, fiction/non-fiction writer, and visual artist. She is a volunteer at The Muse Writer’s Center in Norfolk, VA and a co-facilitator of the Poets on the Page blog and Facebook group. When she’s not writing or painting, she has been known to appear in local community theater musicals and occasionally shows up for karaoke nights. She is currently painting a series of portraits of her ancestors, both biological and adopted, and she is working on her outline for this year’s NaNoWriMo project. She is the mother of two teenage boys and lives with her husband in Virginia Beach.
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from my archive today :)
ReplyDeletehttps://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/day-27-what-colour-is-it/
https://paeansunpluggedblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/grey-2/
ReplyDeleteZiggy has made a reappearance this morning!
ReplyDeletehttps://peacockpoetryblog.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/furry-friends/
Wanted to write a lot more..and the colors just splashed.
ReplyDeletehttps://musingssurvive.blogspot.com/2018/10/colors-of-life.html
I've never understood that dress colour illusion. It always looks like an ugly murky brown and dirty blue to me whichever way I look at it or whichever bit I stare at.
ReplyDeleteI've never even seen it before now. I have cataracts, which are not bad enough to warrant surgery yet, but they have affected my perception of color.
DeleteThe idea that millions of people got their knickers in a twist over it is rather frightening.
DeleteNo colour for day 27, it's short and dark https://unassortedstories.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/cynical-self-help/
ReplyDeleteI almost didn't share this one. It is very personal and it opens up a wound that will never heal.
ReplyDeleteMy Lafayette
This one made me cry. Very heartfelt.
DeleteOne of my favorite lines about color comes from Judy Collins' song "Albatross."
ReplyDeleteEven now by the gate with your long hair blowing
And the colors of the day that lie along your arms
You must barter your life to make sure you are living
And the crowds that have come
You give them the colors
And the bells and the wind and the dream
https://syncwithdeep.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/colorful-summer-2/
ReplyDeleteJust a quick one today. Slightly mawkish perhaps!
ReplyDeletehttps://biancasbookblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/octpowrimo-2018-day-27-what-colour-is-it.html
Love the way how you describe blending together to make a new shade here.Really enjoy your work!
DeleteBeautiful poem that left me warm inside.
Deletehttps://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/which/
ReplyDeleteBeing visually oriented, I like this prompt. Color and poetry go hand in hand.
ReplyDeletehttp://tao-talk.com/2018/10/27/poetry-day-27-nightwings/
Wow! What a visual delight.
Deleteglad you were delighted :)
Deletehttps://castingsuspicion.blogspot.com/2018/10/eyes.html
ReplyDeleteI went a little rogue today.
ReplyDeletehttps://talesofafamily.blog/2018/10/27/emotions/#more-14874
A triolet today, one of my favourite forms: Rainbow
ReplyDeleteThe video is from my visit to the brave country of Tibet in April, 2018https://barbarahuntington.com/2018/10/27/octpowrimo-2018-day-27-tibetan-mountain-pass/
ReplyDeleteThis is what the prompt reminded me of, though it is not actually for this prompt. Still.
ReplyDeleteTitle: "Torrential Hail"
https://spiralartist.wordpress.com/2018/10/27/torrential-hail-day-twenty-seven/
Here s my link for Day #27 Which Color is It
ReplyDeletehttps://poetryforhealing.com/2018/10/27/out-of-the-blue/
What color is it ......
ReplyDeleteAfter a stressful 24 hour work ....
Count my blessings for best possible outcome
Everyone is right by their agenda
A colorful world turned into black and white
My way , your way or high way
People showing their true colors
True to their character and culture
When the agenda is well being of the common goal
The whole team comes together to see all the shades
In spite of good outcome, I left in the morning gloomy
While the nature is filled with fall colors
we struggle to see even the shades of grey ....sr
Created
ReplyDeleteFeeling the Colour Wheel
ReplyDeletehttps://missdragonlady.blogspot.com/2018/10/octpowrimo-day-27-what-colour-is-it.html
ReplyDeletehttps://hittingthemark-jones.blogspot.com/2018/10/green-machine.html
ReplyDeleteHere's my take on the prompt -
ReplyDeletehttp://iscriblr.com/the-pink-kind-of-love/