Author's Note- This is a creative piece I did inspired by one of my favorite books that Peyton happens to be reading right now called "A Mango-Shaped Space". Idecided to take emotions and other things that don't really have a color and make it colorful, imagine it through the eyes of someone with synesthesia. Comments and feedback are appreciated, as always.
Colorful Feelings
The sickly, pasty yellow of hunger, tinted with light brown and famine.
The urgent, frantic, bright red of panic, streaked with vibrant yellows and charcoal blacks, causing senses to go into overstimulation, what to do, what to do?
The bubbly, eccentric yellows and oranges of laughter, creased with happy, soft red lines for smiles and fun.
The deep, dark red of anger, streaked with cold, hard black, seeping into your vision, blinding you from reason with it's opaque density and darkness.
The endless and ominous blue sky of perseverance, with tufts of white fluff with hints of grey shadows.
Rich reds and purples of passion, with hues of pale blues, filled with emotion. A kiss under the moonlight, a goal achieved, a love for anything, for anybody.
The dull grey-blue, subtle, nothing exciting, really. Boredom. The color I see in math class and nonsensical movies.
Chaos, a catastrophic jumble of neon, exuberant colors in a frenzy, each trying to be the biggest, the most noticeable, pushing each other out of the way for the spotlight like the childhood game King of the Hill, or two divas fighting over center stage.
The blindingly bright and deep blue of confidence, with shades of green and belief in yourself.
The pure white of faith, drizzled with the soft, comforting light brown of trust and spotted with the greens and blues of confidence.
The new, spring green of hope, like a freshly planted flower, just popping its head out of the ground.
And love, a rainbow of colors, balancing each other out, because love is filled with bright happy colors, dull sad tones, sharp, stinging, painful tints, grey-blue sorrows and regrets, deep, emotional purples and fluttery pinks.
This is really interesting, I would love to be able to color a feeling or emotion. I think I might read that book! thanks!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sara on this...and the vocabulary and descriptions are very well done.
ReplyDeleteI loved your symbolism. The colors matched the words you were describing. I also liked how you described what each word and color was like. For example: The dull gray-blue, subtle, nothing exciting, really. Boredom. The color I see in math class and nonsensical movies.Honestly this piece couldn't have been any better.
ReplyDeleteWow this is really creative. It's so cool how you made up every emotion and each one made perfect sense.This piece had very good vocabulary and description just like most of your pieces. For someone with synesthesia does the colors show up when someone has that emotion?
ReplyDeleteOlivia, I think that this is one of the best pieces you have ever written. It is so descriptive, and the thought of having synesthesia...is..neon! And awesome! Haha, this really makes ou want to have synesthesia, to know what it looks like it feels like. This piece was absolutely amazing. I had the honor of reading this, it made my day! Thanks Olivia! Thank you for writing this!
ReplyDeleteThis piece is really cool! I never thought of emotions as colors before. It also is kinda like poetry. It was really good.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading this piece. I love how you used actual sentence structures -- grammatically correct ones -- and wrote them in such a way that they read as a poem together. I also noticed how they start short, and grow and grow into some complex sentences that convey complex thoughts. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteThis is a really cool piece with the colors and the feelings and personalities they had. You made them sound like people with stories and feelings. I love you voice in this piece and how dramatic it is, but also funny and witty in some way.
ReplyDeleteThis is so neon...and awesome!!
ReplyDeleteThis is really neat. It's cool how you tried to describe how it would be to have synesthesia. I read the article on Wikipedia, it's really quite interesting, plus it has some pictures. Maybe you could put a link in your author's note or something. Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteI love the math comment...same!
ReplyDeleteThis piece was excellent. It was great how you described lots of emotions using colors. I've never thought of that before. Also, you were very descriptive. This really made your piece terrific.
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