Colours for Kids 7)

Cherry

By Rhiannonw

Fri, 29 Mar 2019
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Blackcurrant* squash and deep purple pansies,
Teletubbies’ Tinky winky,
purple ‘red*’ cabbage,
the velvet of the queen’s crown,
– and the mountain engine Culdee**,
who doesn’t fall back
down the steep mountain track
for his cogs help him grip
so he cannot slip
as he toils steeply
up.

* not using another colour, just the name of the object!

**Mountain engine stories by Rev Awdry, based on Snowdon Mountain Railway

[IP: write about one colour]

 

Certificate U
Poem
Colours for Kids
Children's
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

Comments

Submitted by forest_for_ever on

Was the choice of Purple deliberate at this time of year?  The toiling (and I've been riding the Snowden Mountain Railway for over 50 years) reminded me of the journey to Golgotha too...

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

No, I had  just had been struggling a bit with orange, and we've had a couple of poems on orange, so I decided to finish for this week on purple. I'll try to go back to orange and maybe some others some other time for this children's collection!

Purple is always associated with royalty is't it? I love the reference to Lydia in Acts 16 (:13–), a dealer in 'purple cloth' whose heart the Lord opened to understand what Paul spoke about and respond. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Just love this colour, it's so rich and eye catching, you've managed to cover so much. I just love the deep purple pansies.

Very much enjoyed Rhiannon.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jenny. I have enjoyed focussing so strongly on one colour at a time, and trying to revert to a child's (and my) delight in things! and I like the phrase about the deep purple pansies also, their colour is so rich as you say. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Pansies are amazing, I remember trying to draw one once with my new pencils and just going through the paper in the end, trying to get the depth of colour :0)

You highlight how even now purple is special, compared to ubiquitous orange squash, and the only colour for the crown's velvet.

The last bit, puffing!

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank yoyu, Di,

Lovely tale to visiualize your desire to get the purple richness even when young!

On reading about the engine going up the hill, my mother-in-law, said, 'I'm not good on heights!' Rhiannon

 

Submitted by hilary west on

Hi Rhiannon,

I like the colour purple and am taken with your pansies and blackcurrant squash!

Hilary     smiley

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Hilary! I hope you are well. Rhiannon