Create #8: Coloured Days

Think of all the different colours you would find in your village; for example, the ‘red’ letter box, the ‘green’ shop door, the ‘blue’ notice board.

Make a list of as many as you can think of—once you get going, you’ll find there are lots of them.

Activity

• Pick four different colours—they could be red, blue, yellow, pink, green, black, white etc.
• Write a sentence about something of that colour that you would find in your village.

Here’s an example, using red, green, blue and white. The sentences are about the village where I grew up.

Carlton Colours

Red school jumper ready, on my way to Middle School.

Mr Sheldrake’s green garden shed where he kept all the footballs I kicked over his fence.

The brooding blue sky before the thunder. We need the rain, Uncle Jack used to say.

I pass White House Farm where he worked driving tractors, clearing ditches.

Exploration

Once you get going, it’s difficult to stop—write two or three poems, using different colours.

• Do different colours make for different sorts of poems?
• Are your brightly coloured poems more positive and uplifting than the more sombre coloured ones?
• Or do the silvers and greys lend themselves to peaceful reflections.

Don’t forget to email your poems to us at mdf@suffolkartlink.org.uk so that we can post them to the Gallery for everyone to enjoy.