NaPoWriMo Prompt 21: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that repeats or focuses on a single color. Some examples for you – Diane Wakoski’s “Blue Monday,” Walter de la Mare’s “Silver,” and Dorothea Lasky’s “Red Rum.”
A painting of a bumble bee body filling the whole canvas: a dirigible or a monster, whose sting once spent, will cause its corpse to crush the whole earth. Squeezing the lemon in the clamp I hold the spent half up to my face like an oxygen mask. We sampled many shades of yellow— Buzz-in, Squash Blossom, Dandelion Wish— wondering which shade of sunshine to spread on the walls. I must have eaten mangoes before Africa but I only remember my first taste there: peeled and pared into long yellow segments light breaching clouds after afternoon rain.
One glorious evocation after another of that delicious color!
LOVE this and the drawing and the words !