Alphabetic Rainbow by Connor Kaplan

Alphabetic Rainbow

Each letter has a color with it.

“A” is green like the Amazon

“B” is the nice ripe yellow banana

“C” is a red in the shade of crimson

“D” is the color of dirt in the day

“E” stands for energy which is yellow

“F” is orange-red like a camp fire

“G’s” purple hue reminds me of dark grapes

“H” looks like a brown fur coat on hounds

“I” is icy cold like the first snowfall

“J” is as green as a large jade statue

“K” is rainbow like a kaleidoscope

“L” is as blue as one of the great lakes

“M” just might be a small orange mango

“N’s” color is blacker than night itself

“O” is pink like a freshly picked orchid

“P” is silver to represent platinum

“Q” is a light pink resembling quartz

“R” is clear like a perfect diamond

“S” is blue-green like the Caspian Sea

“T” is a brown you find on a tortoise

“U” is black like umbrellas when it rains

“V” is red with a vermillion tone

“W” is orange because Wango Tango

“X” is monochrome due to an X-Ray

“Y” can be brown like a mountain yak herd

“Z” is black and white stripes like a zebra

Each letter changes with the chosen word.

Some might become invisible if the

word represents an object that is clear.

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Poem of the Day: Enoch’s Blocks

by Olivia Clare

Little Enoch learned his colors from lettered blocks

(for a is the color of fleet,

b is the color of war and demolition,

c is the color of echo and blur,

&c.) and built

a bricolage:

So cab was a whirring warbler.

bach was the Spanish Armada crashing

                                      and crashing.

And enoch he couldn’t describe.

And when it reached the height of Enoch,

standing, he tore whole tongues

down to their colors.