Poetry Prompt | Green
The Magic of Chlorophyll
A green twittle
We sit immersed in greenery wondrous at Nature’s tones and shades The magic of chlorophyll incanting mint to moss to jade
© Carolyn Hastings 2021
There are literally thousands, if not millions, of different shades of green in nature. The actual number is arbitrary because color is a function of perception, and everyone perceives colours in their own way — think red-green color blindness.
Perhaps more to the point are the contrasts we perceive between the shades and tones of a color. The human eye, as it turns out, can distinguish between more shades of green than any other color. That helps explain the multidimensional layering effect of green-upon-green that we experience when we venture into the depths of forests and jungles.
Thank you to Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) for setting the prompt: write a poem about the color 0x0d9d29 (green). You can check it out for yourself here -
Lucy bemoaned the fact that she has ‘no rhyme or rhythm game whatsoever’ and has vowed to make it a personal challenge to work harder at these literary devices. With a bit of luck we’ll get a twittle out of her yet!
A twittle, by the way, is a four-line micropoem constructed with exactly 100 alphabet letters and a smidge of rhyme. Here’s another color twittle I wrote recently -
Who else is interested in writing a green poem with or without rhyme? What about it — Caroline de Braganza | Jupiter Grant | Thalia Dunn | Tamara Naidoo | Ching Ching | R. Rangan PhD? 🙏 😊 💕
