Poetry Challenge #197-In The Pink?
Are you in the pink? Hope so? If you’re feeling blue, seeing red, a little green around the gills (or green with envy), time to pull out the paint pallet and mix it up for today is National Pink Day! Yep! June 23rd is set aside as a day to bust out the pink!
Legend has it that sometime in the last 17th century (back, evidently, when the world was all black, white, and primary colors), someone waxing lyrical (or frustrated with the English language), pointed to a dianthus flower named “pink” and said “that color.” Shazaam! The color “pink” was born.
From there, Pink, ever vibrant, varied, nuanced a word as it is a color, went on to mean so much more!
Pink in Roses:
Dark Pink Roses: If you want to express appreciation, gratitude, or to say thank you.
Medium Pink Roses: If you have a first love, want to congratulate someone or want to cheer up a friend who’s grieving or healing.
Light Pink Roses: If you want to show gentleness and admiration.
Poetry Challenge #197
In the Pink
Because “pink” is much too much for only one option, for this prompt choose your own pink to explore in poem. Here are some options. Surely one will tickle you, well…pink!
· Explore one or more meanings of the word pink in a poem.
· Write a about a day you felt “in the pink” what did you do? Who were you with? Where did you go?
· List all the shades of pink you can and blend them into a poem.
· Describe a pink person, place or thing.
Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes
Start Writing!
Don’t Think About it, just get with the pink!
Puffed up proudly pink now that you’ve created your poem? Here are ways the National Pink Day Calendar suggests celebrating: #NationalPinkDay
Use pink in a sentence.
Plant or give some pink flowers.
Dye your eyebrows pink.
Color or paint something pink.
Earn a pink ribbon by donating to Breast Cancer Awareness!
Feeling in the Pink Playlist:
“Theme from the Pink Panther” of course! Take it away Henry Mancini!
Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 4 years ago. Now we take turns creating prompts to share with you. Our hope is that creatives—children & adults—will use our prompts as springboards to word play time. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.
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