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Colour: A Writing Prompt

  • Apr 4, 2019
  • 1 min read

Here is a writing prompt to test your creativity and build writing skill.

In 25 words, describe one of the colours that you are wearing. Do this for 3 colours. 25 words each.

I love it because it really gets you thinking about different ways to describe and write about a colour- gets you testing different language and different methods. It also gets you thinking hard about what is the most important way to convey it, because 25 words is a really tight number. You can’t waffle, it has to be concise.

It’s the perfect way to test and build creativity.

Here are mine. Guess what colours I was wearing at the time!

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Like bleached paper, fresh off the press- unmarked, unstained, inkless. How long it stays this way- like fair, unspoiled snow- journeying through life will tell.

I think of wine, the deepest kind. Of sitting back into a sofa, by a crackling fire, swirling a glass of this full, enticing claret.

Close your eyes. Do you see colours, lights, kaleidoscopic fragments? Too much light. Now think of deep space, with nothing for the light to illuminate.

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I would recommend this to anyone!

Give it a go, get your class to do it, get your family or children to do it, get your blog audience to do it!

Post your versions below- I’d love to see how everyone interpreted it and how people use their own styles of language to write about colour.

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Eventide’s Lamp

  • Mar 1, 2019
  • 1 min read

There’s a light in the distance

But I know not what it’s for,

It just appeared in the mist

As twilight settled.

The hazy blue-grey

Of mountains dressed in clouds,

Overshadows and hides

The origin of this pinprick glow.

Almost a speck-sized orb

To guide you through eventide’s haze.

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I walk along the side, where land stretches with time

  • Jun 9, 2018
  • 2 min read

I walk along the side Of a hill well climbed: Out past the glen where the trees grow thick And tall And cover the path with dappled shade. Branches overhang with umbrellas of leaves Until you step out beyond, out the other side, Onto an open hill, Where you can stop and gaze at the land below. This land, a timeless land, It stretches out below- A patchwork of colour and fields and towns and roads, Where the river curls and meanders through, And you see the riverbank lit like copper’s glow, The mountains rise behind like shadowed ghosts. And to the side, atop a peak, A single, towering figure, Stoic and sleek, Yet as ghostly as those shadowy hills, The blue, misty giants, Like a cloak of low, thick clouds behind. I gaze below and wonder how this land would look unchanged from times of old, Hundreds or thousands of years before the scars of roads Were etched into its skin And the constant buzz of modern life, Of vehicles and industry, Obscured an untouched peace. These birds I hear And the bubbling of that waterfall, The trees, the sheep, the wind: How can we now enjoy these sounds of home country and nature Without the constant murmur of twenty-first century? With this meditative gaze and these wondering thoughts, The twilight draws in, And I can no longer distinguish the mountains from the sky As a thick blanket of cloud engulfs the horizon afore me. Such a strange softness- Bright, yet dim, too, on the eyes, And envelops this here land in a veil of grey, Preceding the black of night And marking my return to the modern life- Away from this hill, and back through the glen, Where the trees stand like sentries Who guard this hill, the place Where land and time stretch out together And merge in this timeless grace.

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