Spectrums of the Rainbow

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Fri Mar 21, 2025 6:40 pm

ToastK says... · Fri Mar 21, 2025 6:40 pm

Colours to do:
Burgundy Scarf (Done)
Burning Crimson (Done)
Ang Pau (Done)
Vermillion Sunset (Done)
Autumn and You (Done)
Canary Beach (Done)
Olive (Done)
would you like some matcha latte (Done)
Evergreens and Their Leaves (Done)
That One Teal Retro Car (Done)
Pool (Done)
Cerulean Skies (Done)
Sapphire Eyes (Done)
Dreams and Stars in a City (Done)
Royal Violets (Done)
Lavender Haze (Done)
Blanc et Noir (Done)
That Rainbow I Drew in MyChildhood (Done) (Extra Credit)

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Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:08 am

Youbeaucupid says... · Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:08 am

Ooo!! Your NaPo title sounds fun!! I'm excited to see what you write for NaPo, I’ll be cheering you on! :33

You know, ଳjellyfishଳ can't swim or shine on their own, but once they absorb light from around them, they're able to shine for themselves! So maybe...I can, too! If I'm around you, maybe I'll be able to shine, too? -

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Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:26 am

EllieMae says... · Sat Mar 22, 2025 9:26 am

I am so excited for this

Such a cool and unique idea!!

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

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Mon Mar 24, 2025 1:43 am

alliyah says... · Mon Mar 24, 2025 1:43 am

Are we going to see some color poems? Looking forward to your thread!

you should know i am a time traveler &
there is no season as achingly temporary as now

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Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:37 pm

ToastK says... · Tue Apr 01, 2025 10:37 pm

Burgundy Scarf

I am but a ball of yarn
Slowly unwinding to become your creation
Knit your gentle fingers and mourn
For I will be there to absorb your tears and desperation
Knit and make mistakes as much as you want
Just unwind me and start from the top again
After finishing me twirl me around
Before tying me to a stable sculpture of snow
For I am but a cozy scarf
You made as a gift and worn by just one.
For I am just a worn-out scarf
Seeped into snow-melted puddles waiting for no one.

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Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:57 pm

ToastK says... · Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:57 pm

Burning Crimson

Cats chased and chased,
Created chaos creatively.
I conjure a memory,
Caught up, my conscience high in cirrus cloud nine.
Coming back to reality, can you call out to me.
Crimson ashes in crisp cold air,
Can I even recall a blue sky.
Crying tears of catastrophe,
Calling out to cultivate survivors,
Cracks and crease of debris,
Of ruined concrete buildings,
Covered in crimson hue,
Cover my cries for help.
Confined in ceasing fate,
I look upon the constant cerulean sky,
Covered in smog of crimson destruction.
I look upon that constant cerulean sky,
The clock of mine ticking till my breath ceases.

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Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:59 pm

ToastK says... · Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:59 pm

Ang Pau

Hope you get rich!
May all Fortune be upon you.
Happy new year!
All the old stuff’s behind you.
Stop playing around, you’re already thirteen.
Worry about your future, don’t worry about your childhood.
We gave all this for you, yet all you do is play.
What a failure. Such a failure.
Your cousins are much more succefuler than you.
What a failure. Such a failure.
We invest into you, but you don’t give back to us anything of worth.
Our ancestors are crying to see all their sacrifices mount up,
To nothing more than a child obsessed with video games.
This Ang Pau we keep for safekeeping lah,
You will get to see it when you turn eighteen.

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Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:46 pm

Liminality says... · Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:46 pm

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Hi Toast! Congrats on Day Three of NaPo! I'm liking the variety in tones that you've matched to different shades of red.

I liked these lines:

For I am but a cozy scarf
You made as a gift and worn by just one.
For I am just a worn-out scarf
Seeped into snow-melted puddles waiting for no one.

The scarf seems very comforting to the addressee for most of the poem, so it's sad that the poem ends with it becoming worn out and seemingly abandoned after the snow person melts!

I liked all the alliteration in 'Burning Crimson'. The contrast between ominous crimson and idyllic cerulean is really interesting, too. I liked the repetition of the line: "I look upon that constant cerulean sky," towards the end - it seemed to emphasise how fast the world in this poem is turning apocalyptic.

I like that you're experimenting with a different kind of speaker in 'Ang Pau', with a different voice! The first three lines stand out, with your using common New Year's wishes to frame the poem.

Keep writing!

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Fri Apr 04, 2025 4:08 am

ToastK says... · Fri Apr 04, 2025 4:08 am

Vermillion Sunset

Orange hues of flowing skies and
Yellow hues of fleeting flowers
Purple haze of fluffy clouds that
Whiz across the iridescent sunlight

This vermillion sky of sorbet harmony
The rainbow that comes out at twilight’s end
When the blues are gone in the setting day
I reach out to an unreachable place

Lushy greens that fill the fields and
Ripe o’ reds that come bear their fruits
Sparkly golds of shining sands and
Amber whites of seashells abandoned to shore

This vermillion sky of sorbet harmony
The rainbow that comes out at twilight’s end
When the blues are gone in the setting day
I reach out to an unreachable place

I reach out… to a place that seems like a dream
But with you, it seems reachable to me.

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Tue Apr 08, 2025 4:43 am

ToastK says... · Tue Apr 08, 2025 4:43 am

Autumn and You

Crisp and cold Autumn’s breeze
The slowing air from the East
Shifting colors of trees from lime to yellow
And You; my buddy ol’ fellow

Blame games we used to play
Bickering we used to do
But now as the seasons change
Big and small, these things matter no more

Let’s all now frolick
In these bountiful fall leaves
Forget tragedies

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Tue Apr 08, 2025 1:13 pm

Wolfi says... · Tue Apr 08, 2025 1:13 pm

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Oooo living for this thread! <3 Vermillion sunset is my favorite so far!

John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled
and do not be afraid.

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Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:44 am

ToastK says... · Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:44 am

Canary Beach

Beaches filled with thousands and thousands of golden stones
Beside them lays a bird who fled from deep dark mines of ores and bones
He alerted the others of danger, but he was too late in doing so
Traumatized, the bird watches the waves wash up heaps of gold that the others
Were only mercenaries for.

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Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:29 am

ToastK says... · Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:29 am

Olive

Deceitful you are
How dare you come
In delectable green
Fool me once
And then again
Fool me twice
And then a third
You look like grapes
But come on pizzas
You come varied
But always as toppings
I thought you’re green
But you come as black tires on wheat wheels
I guess some like you though
And that’s good enough
With all you’ve been through
With all your history thorough
You seem quite tough
And I hate that none of those rhymed…
Actually compared to english spelling
You’re way finer I guess

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Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:30 am

ToastK says... · Fri Apr 11, 2025 8:30 am

would you like some matcha latte

7:00AM I wake up to the song of birds in morning
Out of the bed I get off on a monday mourning
At the fact that work is soon
And Friday is 5 days away oh no
I go to the coffee shop a block from me
And order a milk green tea
Called matcha latte from a barista I’ve fallen for
I ask ちょっと待って(chotto matte), can I ask for your name

Tuesday I return to that coffee shop
Eager to see that boy again
His name’s Sebastian and his voice is gentle and nice
I order again, another matcha latte
And then he remarks, “the same thing eh?”

Wednesday I come in, not once but twice
Two matcha lattes to keep my week going
Wishing Wednesdays became public weekends
Why does friday seem so far away

Thursday I came in again
This time I didn’t see Sebastian
I ordered from someone else today
It wasn’t the same though, the sweetness felt a way off

Friday I was panicking
I had a presentation but forgot doing any preparing
I stumbled over my words and messed up my slides
I got off work all sad and weary, staring at the sky
Then, a voice called to me from a door of a coffee store,
“would you like some matcha latte”

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Mon Apr 14, 2025 12:22 am

Liminality says... · Mon Apr 14, 2025 12:22 am

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Hurray, look at how many more colours we've got!

Vermillion Sunset
> "This vermillion sky of sorbet harmony" <- I already felt like the first stanza was reminding me of frozen desserts, so I was very pleased to read this image!
> I like the ending of the poem and how it reframes the poem as being about how the speaker feels when with this person. It adds another layer on a re-read.

Canary Beach
> Oh the ending of this one is so ominous. I wonder: did the other birds perish for the sake of that gold somehow?
> The image of waves bringing up heaps of gold with no other birds in sight is pretty haunting.

Olive
> I like the idea of olives being deceivers - it *is* wild that they come in different colours.

would you like some matcha latte
> This was a cute poem - I like the narrative aspect too, with Sebastian seemingly disappearing in the middle only to swoop in and (probably unknowingly) save the speaker's day.

Happy NaPo and keep writing!
-Lim

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