Sunday, April 23, 2017

Writing the Rainbow #23 - Black


Aerial View of Crayola Box
Photo by Georgia LV





And's crayon.  Black!

Some Are Sleeping...Some are Not
by Amy LV

Students - Today's poem is a sonnet, a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter (da DA da DA da DA da DA da DA).  It's in Shakespearean sonnet style, with three quatrains and an ending couplet. Often during a National Poetry Month challenge, I take on a sonnet.  It's a puzzle and great fun to count the syllables and most importantly, still make sense.

When I rhyme, my first goal is to be sure that the rhyme does not distract from what the poem wishes to say.

If you are Writing the Rainbow with me, perhaps your color for today will inspire you to write in a form such as a sonnet or a haiku or a limerick. Once in a while I play with form, though if you visit here often, you may have noticed that I usually do not write in named forms, but sometimes...I do!  Perhaps your poem will take you to nighttime or to a different time of day than you usually explore.


And please don't miss the links to all kinds of Poetry Month goodness up there in my upper left sidebar.  Happy twenty-third day of National Poetry Month!

Please share a comment below if you wish.


  1. Amy, The dark night city comes alive in this pitch-perfect poem for the color black crayon.

    And your working with the sonnet reminds me that a goal on my To Do list is to spend more time
    working my words into forms.

    Each day I have wondered what the next day's color will be.

  2. Oh, a sonnet to a city and night and all that goes on. Lovely !!
    Janet Clare F.

  3. Night is a perfect choice for the color black and a sonnet, no less. I am still intimidated by the sonnet. You bring us right into the city night.

  4. I love all the things happening in the city behind "those flashing rectangles of light." But my favorite line has to be - "Old people walk old dogs beneath old stars."