Writing Prompt Sunday, May 21st – Peculiar

Greetings, everyone!

This week I would like us to write something peculiar.

I will present you with a list of colour names and shades, and it is your task to use the colours as a theme, and the names of colours to create a peculiar scene – inside your poem or story , or any media of expression that you choose.

Here is the list:

albicant:

whitish; becoming white

amaranthine:

immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour

aubergine:

eggplant; a dark purple colour

azure:

light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue

celadon:

pale green; pale green glazed pottery

cerulean:

sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green

chartreuse:

yellow-green colour

cinnabar:

red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour

citrine:

dark greenish-yellow

eburnean:

of or like ivory; ivory-coloured

erythraean:

reddish colour

flavescent:

yellowish or turning yellow

greige:

of a grey-beige colour

haematic:

blood coloured

heliotrope:

purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror

hoary:

pale silver-grey colour; grey with age

isabelline:

greyish yellow

jacinthe:

orange colour

kermes:

brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects

lovat:

grey-green; blue-green

madder:

red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour

mauve:

light bluish purple

mazarine:

rich blue or reddish-blue colour

russet:

reddish brown

sable:

black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry

saffron:

orange-yellow

sarcoline:

flesh-coloured

smaragdine:

emerald green

tilleul:

pale yellowish-green

titian:

red-gold, reddish brown

vermilion:

bright red

violescent:

tending toward violent

virid:

green

viridian:

chrome green

xanthic:

yellow

zinnober:

chrome green

The scene should mix the elements of strange and mundane, resemble the atmosphere of a lucid dream, or a mirage.

Hope you have fun writing!

When you are done posting your piece, link up/pingback and tag your post with MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie, prompt, writing challenge, peculiar and similar.

I am looking forward to reading your entries!