Yesterday we experimented with a strategy for writing poems called a “color approach to poetry.” Please take a moment to share your draft of your color poem here. Thanks!
Mrs. Hamilton
Click here to read Mrs. Hamilton’s color poem, “Orange.”
June 26, 2007
Color Poetry
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GREEN
Green is the color of earth
The color of money
And even granny smith
Apples
There are green jellybeans
And green stop lights
Green feels sour or
Green feels fast
Green is a tool to power
That not everyone gets to hold
It makes the world work
But also causes problems
Green should be free to everyone
And there should definitely be
More green in the world
Green feels like
Grass under your feet
Green is the color of health and power
Green should bring comfort but
Green looks to do more bad
Than good
Comment by MaRk F — June 26, 2007 @ 4:51 pm
“Yellow”
Yellow is the color of Joy
An unexpected child
To a loving family
There are yellow daisies and yellow sunsets
Parenthood feels yellow, joyful and bright
Yellow is the walk in the park
Yellow should be bright and happy
Always smiling up at you
Yellow feels like happiness, joy, and excitement
Yellow is the lilies floating on the water
Or the wild flowers in the distance
Yellow should feel like tomorrow
But seem like yesterday
With every heart beat and joyful smile
Comment by Tiffany D. — June 26, 2007 @ 5:10 pm
Tan is the color of happiness
A person I
Have loved
For quite some
Time
There are tan animals and people
Skin feels tan, smooth and soft
She is the tan that I know,
That I love,
But also the tan that I trust
Tan should be rough and rigid
Not the way I like it to be
Like the way it is with you
Tan feels like happiness
Tan is the person I love, that I can turn to
And the person that I trust
Tan should feel like sand
But it feels like silk
A light, smooth cloth
Wrapping the body of
The lonely
Comment by wesley d — June 26, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
Green
Green is the color of luck
It brings new beginnings
Symbolizing money
There are green clovers
And green lilies
Success feels green, big, and bright
But green is envy and trickery
Green should be happiness and delight
Not powerful greed
It is to be forever sacred and saved
Green feels like shame and sorrow
Green is the rich
Or maybe even the poor
Green should feel like hope and achievement
But it looks like grimness
A pain, sharp, and hard
Comment by TonyaG — June 26, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
White
White is the color of purity,
the mistakes of past
forgiven, and the slate
cleaned and given anew.
There are white walls and white canvas.
The white canvas feels ready to be filled
with the black ink of ideas.
White is a wall that begs
to be painted with whatever path
that you wish to choose.
White should be clean and pure,
only to be stained and tainted
with the world around it.
White feels like the dead of Winter,
cold and still, only waiting
for Spring to give it life again.
White is the color that helps
to clean a slab, that is marked
with the pain of mistake.
White should feel
like purity and cleanliness,
but white looks like black
with the smallest of errors.
That is not what I see
on a spotted canvas.
I see a white canvas ready
to be cleaned,
of its spotted mistakes.
Comment by Robert B. — June 26, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
Blue
Blue is the color of the ocean
The color of the sky
Blue is the color of relaxation
Blue feels cool
Like summer time swim
Blue is so refreshing
After along run
Blue covers over 70% of the world
Blue is fun to look
Its fun to watch the birds
Fly through the blue sky
Blue it feels good to swim in it
It feels good to drink it
And it makes you feel good
Just to gaze into it
Comment by Sean W — June 26, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
GRAY
Gray is the color of winter
A season looked forward too
That brings joy
Which brings fun
There are gray clouds and gray days
Gray brings snow
Snow brings winter
Gray feels like winter and snow
Or just a rainy day
Gray should feel like joy
But instead is mistaken as dull
Comment by Mike H — June 26, 2007 @ 5:16 pm
GREEN
Green is the color of luck, which I hope for everyday.
Freshness in which I look when I wear it, and envy
In which I shall never come across in my mind.
There are green mountains and
Green moist leaves in the summer
Money feels green, happy and satisfied.
But green also is the beginning of my
Happiness as of today.
Green should be filled with enjoyable moments:
Never with sad experiences.
Green feel’s like success waiting
To happen. Green is money which
I will get a great amount of through-
Out my career.
Green should feel like luck, freshness and greed.
But instead as of this second it feels like future
Loneliness and sadness.
Comment by lauren l. — June 26, 2007 @ 5:17 pm
“Black”
Black is the color of death
Black is the color of nothingness
Black is the color of deception
There are black nights and days
Black feels dark and cold
Black is the color of my past and present
Black should be feared
Not loved
For fear is the best weapon against the enemy
Black feels like the darkness after
The sun goes down
Black is the sign of death
Black should feel like emptiness
But black is fear
Fear
Fear attracts the fearful
The strong
The weak
The corrupt
Fear is my ally
Comment by Zak S. — June 26, 2007 @ 5:26 pm
Green is the color of life
Where everything has
A new beginning
A new born
And a new death
There are green plants and green people
Happiness feels green, serious and bright
Green is the color I see in someone
No matter whom they are
Green should be happy families
And happy living
Green feels like
A new born child
Coming into deaths arms
Green should feel like spring
But it feels, looks, smells, and sounds like
Death around the corner
Comment by Adrian R. — June 26, 2007 @ 6:05 pm
Red is the color of
Hatred which we all have for each other
Blood for what my country has suffered
And the pain on my chest for how much pressure I have
There are red abominate and red violence
Red feels like a broken glass
Scattered into a million pieces
Red is a symbol for war
Red should be given a chance
Not a battle or pain
Red feels like the end of a story
Red is the time to be in piece
Red should feel like a happy child
But it feels, looks, smells, and sounds like war
Comment by Adrian R. — June 26, 2007 @ 6:12 pm
White is the color of freedom
Breaks down to help
To give ones life back
There are white clouds and white seagulls all around
White feels like relief from the world
White is the turning point for freedom
White should be everywhere
Everywhere you go white is there
With you by your side
In your dreams
Everywhere white should be
White feels like new opportunities
White is the birth of a new world
Of freedom
White should feel like nothing but
White feels great
Looks new
Smells like new
Sounds like freedom
White is freedom form everyone
And everything
Comment by kris p. — June 26, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
Black is the color of death
Creeping through the shadows
its the color of unsureness
There are black nights and black smiles
Black feels cold and lifeless
Black is the reaper looking for wandering souls
Black should be good and pure
But instead its the color of dead love
Black feels like loneliness
Black is the color of night and uncertainty
Black should feel like any day of the year
But instead if feels like the last day
Comment by Ben A. — June 26, 2007 @ 6:32 pm