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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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Painting White Rainbows

righton's picture

Fiery cherry spatters onto
Carroty orange that mixes
Spilling pink
Onto yellow lime kiwi

Chocolate brown splashes onto paper
Inviting a raspberry red filling

Green dots submerge from brush
Like an emerald grass
Coated in a streak of trickling rouge
From a ripe tomato squished by
Black converse blemished by blueberries

Lemonade sun shines like butter coating warmth on the
World and the lollipop ball that forever is in air
And pale hands
Forever in motion of paused release

The brush swivels a jade vine creeping
Up a lavender home dripping with
Colorless rain slipping from whitish blue clouds

A finger paints the black nose of a
Golden puppy in mid splash of a muddy puddle

In the depths of coffee colored soil
The brush lines a olive moldy M
Followed by a archaic A
And a squiggling S, painting like wiggling worms
Next a timid T
And a erratic E
And a ruthless R
Ending with perfect P-I-E-C-E

The brush twirls in water leaking color onto
Clear liquid
Like color
To brush
And paper
To masterpiece

righton's picture

Comments

Please feel free to put in any constructive comments!

miss_literal's picture

I LOVE this, are you an

I LOVE this, are you an artist?
Only thing to change I think...
in the fourth line you wrote On to instead of onto

righton's picture

Thanx

Thank you for the spelling fix, and no I'm not technically an artist but its something I enjoy but mostly I just felt like writing a poem about it, however it was written from expericance. :]

NonSequitur's picture

Beautiful

OMG.
This is sooo beautiful. I love it.
And if you're not an artist, you should be!

righton's picture

Really? Thank you! I wasnt

Really? Thank you! I wasnt so sure about it while I was writing it, and its only my rough draft. Anyways thanx 4 the comment, I am glad people like it!

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