The Color of Words

A poem is a unique art,
painted not with the colors of the rainbow,
but with the color of words.
A poet, like an artist,
chooses his or her colors carefully,
as to not mix the wrong ones and ruin the image.
If a poet were to write,
'His eyes are dark blue.'
it would not create the correct effect.
The sentence needs some shading to blend the colors well.
If a poet were to write,
'His eyes glimmer with the color of the dark ocean depths.'
it would add much, much more,
to the writer's artwork.
A poet can take words,
and, without being there in person,
paint a flawless picture into the mind of the reader.

Author's Note

Yet another poem written for my Creative Writing class. :)

Reviews

[Calypso]

Writing is like paining, I'll give you that/ I agreed with the whole poem.

[patricia]

inspiring and thought provoking. I liked it.