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favorite color
tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
Ended February 29, 2024 • 18 Entries • Created by champagnepoetry
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MClarice in Poetry & Free Verse
39 reads

Tranquility

In the quiet hours of dawn,

When the world is a soft whisper,

I find solace in the hue of the sky,

A canvas painted with the first light,

Gentle, soothing, infinite.

It's the color of the ocean's depths,

Where secrets and dreams intertwine,

A dance of waves under the sun's gaze,

A melody of tranquility,

Endless, embracing, eternal.

In the eyes of a newborn,

There's a glimpse of this shade,

A reflection of innocence and wonder,

A spark of the beginning,

Pure, hopeful, serene.

It's in the twilight,

When the day meets the night,

A moment of calm,

A bridge between two worlds,

Quiet, reflective, peaceful.

This color, it whispers of freedom,

Of a boundless sky and an open sea,

A journey without end,

A path of possibilities,

Tranquil, vast, liberating.

It's the color of my solace,

Of my dreams, of my quiet moments,

A shade that feels like a deep breath,

A color that holds the essence of peace,

Calm, cool, collected.

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favorite color
tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
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Ness_Doublet in Poetry & Free Verse
45 reads

Yours

Its hers, actually

Tulips and roses

Two lips

Pressed together

A dress

An undoing

If you mix the strike of a lightning bolt

With the depth of her eyes

Perhaps you would come close to the colour

Its mine, actually

Or at least just a shade away

Don't shy away

Hold me close

Hold me tight

Forever more

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favorite color
tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
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thisisit in Poetry & Free Verse
39 reads

On Thin Ice

he said that they

drove their cars onto

the thick ice

of the lake

left them there

until it thawed

sinking their vehicles

right to the bottom

the bubbles that formed

when the cars went under

screaming for air

and a sense of closure

the waves have a color

it turns to a deathly

dark shade when it laps

at the under carriage

of the trucks that are

parked there, not knowing

that they are being swallowed

in one mouthful, a lake

so enormous

its darkness is a hue

that people see

and know that they

can make things disappear

inside of it

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favorite color
tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
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7ynal in Poetry & Free Verse
31 reads

2 Colors

I am a thief in the night. Your gifts are mine. No one shall be happy because neither am I.

Verdant pastures reaching, stretching towards forests of whistling pines. Ivy, slick and creeping, up the moss covered maples. I look north and catch the five tailed fan. My dreams are greedy for more as I sleep below the canopy.

I am nothing in light and everything on paper.

In the night I feel at home, in the day I'm never alone. You cannot see me I am the abyss, I am the darkness when your eyelids kiss.

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tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
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flashgordon in Poetry & Free Verse
28 reads

give me fog

fuzzy cat feet

nondescript

huddle inside

unseen blur

merging lanes

pouring rain

dark meets light

passing unnoticed

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favorite color
tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
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jems in Poetry & Free Verse
19 reads

Find me

I am above you, see me in the sky!

I am below you, see me in waters!

I am half a fruit, the beautiful macaw, I am a formal for all ages there. Find me!

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favorite color
tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
SarahF in Poetry & Free Verse
17 reads

Not green

It's the tip of the arrow

When it's pierced through a heart

It dances in flames

And enrages a bull

It's a white rabbit's eyes

It's glowing hot coals

An Olympic ring

The planet of Mars

A dramatic sunrise,

Which promises rain

It's berries and cherries

And a whole bowl of fruit

Nectarines and apples

Cheeks flushed with shame

An emphatic stop sign

It makes cars go fast

Or tells them to halt

It's passion and heat

It's onions and cabbage

And a dollop of ketchup

It's ruby, it's scarlet

It's crimson, it's rose

A small robin's breast

A tree's autumn leaves

The head of a match

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favorite color
tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
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DanPhantom123 in Poetry & Free Verse
33 reads

Wrap You Up, Beautiful, Wondrous Child

Though it is dark and though a bit ominous, how it catches firelight with shadows black and obscene.

It swallows the light, perhaps as it so despises it's glare. Or is it jealous, silently rotting green and putrid beneath such rich, drowning beauty.

Wrap yourself, for it is often in fine material.

Silk and thick downs, smooth and fluid as the water, thick and lined soft as a sheep's tangles of fur.

Lock and Hem, aconite and all a witch's berry shaded brews. Dyed in such mysterious, alluring, so fatal shades.

Almost black some could say it is charred.

Worn to war and worn in the throne rooms.

Forgive then, if it has some patches, if perhaps the hems of this color are a bit burned.

Through it's wear, through long years exposed and bullied by the winds and scorching sun.

It's color remains-- as if by magic-- unknowable and regal.

Look, how in a long cloth it buries you up. Gently holds you, protects you.

How the people stare on but don't dare speak.

Stay silent, stay abound in their stupor when you walk.

Clothed in such fine things.

Hooded your face, look how the color makes your skin all the more spectacular. Or how the tufts of hair that peak out, their own lustrous flower.

Keep it child.

Such a rare color.

Worth the cottage, worth thy whole forest, and worth only the prettiest words and highest airiest compliments.

Worth the most unique, the most beloved treasure.

A child.

So unique and wondrous as you.

Will you do magic? Will you smell of the dust on books and have nails painted by quill ink?

Tell the seamstress for this fine, royal dye.

Stars to the sky?

Or simple silver to leap across fluttering waves?

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favorite color
tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
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7v7 in Poetry & Free Verse
19 reads

Clear as day

We take it for granted

what the magnifying glass exposes

and every window conveys

what isn't there

and we look

right passed

Water and air

they all take on

light and shade

from the atmosphere

the visual silence

the space

the empty

that drowns us

what Mozart said

or Debussy echoed

and Picasso in respect

put his brush away

while old Monet

closed a tired eye

and slaved

it was clear

from the beginning

to the end

there was nothing

except ....

the lens

02.20.2024

my favorite color challenge @AJAY9979

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tell me your favorite color without actually saying your favorite color. the more imagery used, the better.
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TheCalePrincess in Poetry & Free Verse
18 reads

My Happy

It warms me with bright

Filling me with delight.

The sunflowers and daisy,

wear it’s shades day and night.

The lip puckering sweet,

of the lemon in my tea,

floats there among,

the ice cubes so free.

Primary stripped between the honey bees black.

Happy I watch the school bus bring them back.

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