This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy.
Today I decided to try a paint chip poem based on Margaret’s color poem for kindergarteners. I separated my paint chips into color stacks–and learned that I am very attracted to blues and grays (SO many gray paint chips) and apparently not attracted to red at all (only 4 red paint chips in my giant stack!). I did have enough pink to try to make a poem, and some of the pink colors were fun: pretty rascal, follow your heart, mermaid cheeks. But I couldn’t quite make the poem work, so I looked online for more pink paint colors. It turns out that the folks who name paint colors really like to include the word pink in every pink color. And then a different, silly poem began taking shape. Believe me when I say this could have gone on forever. I had a lot of fun playing with the sound and rhythm of each line. Starting with “full bloom,” every word in the poem is a paint chip color.
this pink poem is in full bloom
Pink plink, pink plunge,
pink wink, pink fun,
pink frenzy, pink flutter,
pink piggy, pink pagoda,
baby pink, carefree pink,
bridal pink, champagne pink,
pink corsage, pink prom,
pink pearl, pink shell,
pink sand, pink ground,
pink icing, pink crown.
Tulip pink, polka pink,
cameo pink, pink camellia,
begonia pink, pink bougainvillea,
pink odyssey, pink destiny,
pink harmony, pink memory,
warm pink, sweet pink,
radiant pink, barely pink,
savvy pink, plaster pink,
watermelon pink, oh so pink.
the dirigible plum 
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