Colours for Kids 9)

By Rhiannonw

Sat, 27 Jul 2019
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Oranges and clementines, satsumas too,
carrots for dinner or a snack to chew,
orange goldfish in a bowl swim round and round,
traffic cones with orange stripes
warning us all there’s a hole in the ground,
the glow in a fire or flame that’s hot and bright,
the middle ‘get ready’ sign of the traffic light,
big round pumpkins that are cut to give a fright,    
– made to look like faces for lanterns in the night.

A further item for the collection that was started during the IP on single colours at the end of March. There had been others writing about 'orange' at the time, so I thought I'd wait before doing orange in this children's series.

Certificate U
Poem
Colours for Kids
Children's

Comments

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Rhiannon

Lovely images of orangey things. One of my favourite colours and without the cateracts, my entire world of colour has changed. I bought a coat which I thought was an orangey brown - and it turned out to be a pinky pumple. I felt so let down by my eyes. And the flowers are different than before - deeper and shallower too. Some of the things I thought were dark yellow and in fact very pale.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jean. That must be lovely, must make you so appreciate the colourfulness around, and thrilled at being able to see it so much better. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Enjoyed your poem Rhiannon! I have always associated the colour orange with courage. As well as warmth, more as in your poem. Very nice- colours for kids! But not for the very little ones.

A very good contribution. All the best!

Tom Brown

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Tom. I dislike Halloween very much – here the shops get full of grotesque masks etc. these days, and I think children need to know whom they can trust when things do frighten them. But also maybe it's useful to point out to them that some such deliberately 'frightening' things are made by people deliberately in this way, and hopefully that takes some of the uncertain fear from their hearts. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

yes, I love your poem, how cosy it is. But I don't like Halloween at all now either. My son and his friends seem determined to look more horrifying every year and can't understand why people won't answer the door and give them sweets! They love it though, are planning it already, getting fake wounds etc from Amazon. I embarrassed him so much when his friend came round ast year and I could not bear to look at him, I felt like crying he looked so sore like in a terrible accident. I have said don't want to see my son looking like that,  they are so realistic  (his friend thought it was a compliment, luckily!) so going to get changed at his house and take it off before coming home! I feel for you having to explain the horrible masks to little ones - when he was little they gave him nightmares, just accidentally walking past the rack in Woolworths.Your poem makes me nostalgic for when it was more gentle! Not lots of suppurating corpses shuffling and giggling in the porch :0)

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

thanks, I'm glad you like the little children's poem.

Yes, I don't like horror for horror's sake, and as you say it can be really upsetting for the little ones - people think they enjoy being frightened, but they are disturbed if they don't know when it is fooling, and also that there is a real God we can trust when real things are worrying or frightening, - and as they get older that he is stronger than evil, but the devil is real and not to be messed around with or just laugh at horrible ideas! Rhiannon