Today I found myself speaking to a new... friend? She called me a stranger, yet we talked about our lives like old friends might.1
Regardless, we were discussing 'spreading our wings' as such and being ourselves. And she came up with the simple, almost silly, yet profound question...2
What colour are your wings? 3
I paused, thinking about what it meant to me. What colour were my wings anyway? Colours can read a lot of meaning into something, like a bug might use red as a warning, someone may dress in black when a death has occurred, and blue can imply calmness.4
Deep purple5
To me, the deep purple, it's dark, as I am, but not black. Black is different, but these wings are light enough to have hope. They're torn, from the tearing of the world. Purple is the colour of bruises, of skin when it's cut off. My wings have been choked, beaten and battered, held down, for too long. They hold the cold blue of depression, but a hint of the red fire of passion and strength. They still survive after all these years, when many would have faded. But they stay, in their torn silken glory, the colour of royalty, as I am royalty, a daughter of the Lord6
I was surprised by my own answer, what I read into it my own life, and how I saw myself, all shown in this one, simple, colour. I sat wondering about myself, my life, and my view on it. But she wasn’t finished.7
What about your soul? What colour is that?8
Well this one had me stumped a little longer. I considered the wings to represent my soul but when I really thought about it, there was a difference. The wings were outward, but the soul only I can see. In many ways, the wings also represented how others see me, but my soul is my own.9
I suppose it's the same, but it's redder, closer to maroon. It's more fiery, more resilient, brighter. It doesn't care what comes, it's stronger. It's dented, it's hurt, but it doesn't have the depressed and suffered look of the wings. 10
But still, one last question, for me to consider.11
And your personality? 12
I paused the longest on this, sitting and thinking, trying to work it out.13
My personality? Well I can't answer that one at this stage. And the reason why is a whole other story for another day.14
So tell me. What colour are your wings? 15
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Author notes
THANK YOU LADY MADELINE FOR SPOTLIGHTING ME!!!
For... whichever contest im entering now <_< (sorry, these really get on my nerves) - the inspiration for this would be a conversation i had, much of this is actually copy/pasted unedited from it. and my favourite animal is anything that isnt native to my country (australia) because all aussie animals are evil
A contest entry
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Comments
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Great
I loved it =D
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Wow..I haven't read something that got me to really thinking in a long time. Not since I read something in 'Cathy's Book' about death. But that's not the point.
It's almost 4 in the morning and right now I don't want to think about what color my wings are, because I might say something very very stupid.
I'm glad I did my normal 'find profile, click on random username in guestbook' search! I will get back to you with this and let you know, but I must say I loved how you explained purple. Bravo.
-Alexis.
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Meanings of colors
This is an insightful writing. I recently read a book called The Seer by Jim W. Goll, and he discussed the symbolic meanings of colors as it relates to dreams and visions and the Bible.
Purple--Royalty
Blue--Heaven, The Holy Spirit
Amber--The Glory or Presence of God
Red--Bloodshed, War
Crimson--Blood, Atonement, Sacrifice
Black--Sin, Death, Famine
White--Purity, Light, Righteousness
Green--Life, the Levites, intercession
My favorite color is blue and I like all shades of it. My wings would be sky blue.
beginning: 4, language: 3, ending: 4.
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Elegant
This is a piece of beautiful, elegant prose. Without saying so, it had a profound other-worldly quality to it, like a dream or an encounter with an angel, not just a friend. Great stuff.
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Colours can be one of the hardest things to describe in writing, for they are never the same for anyone reading. For instance what I see as 'blue' would differ from what you see as 'blue'. However, you have taken your colors and imposed on them the necessary distictions - so that the reader understands and 'sees' exactly what you wish for them to see. The emotion garnered by the piece was as profound as your skillful decriptions of the colour. Well done!
Thank you for your entry and good luck!
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This is great! Very inspirational and emotional! I could read this over and over again and get something different out of it each time. Wonderful Job and Thank you for entering HitmanShah's Contest!
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WOW!
That was so deep! I loved it. I don't think I can say what color mine are yet, i'd have to think of it. Finalist easily!
Keep up the good work,
~Dragonaris~
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At first ititial glance, it gave off a column-ish feel but after I carefully read it, .....Oh my goddesses!
beginning: 3, language: 5, ending: 5, dialog: 5.
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Incredible
This is a marvelous piece. You did exactly what I asked. You gave me something to think about. I really enjoyed this whole piece, but I especially love what you did with colors. How you gave them so much meaning and intensity really touched me. It got me thinking. I'm not sure I could ever describe what you did in one color. I'd have to choose several different colors and I was really impressed with what you did. Thank you so much for entering. -
Wonderful
A very interesting and original piece this is... Symbolic, beautiful, dark, slightly depressing, hopeful.. Oh so many things. Your muse must really love you...
My favorite part of this was your describing the deep purple color as pain and darkness, but the most original I thought, was how you even split up the color into blue and red! That's extremely impressive.. You have quite the mind. One thing that would make this better though, is if you revised it.. the beginning sounds a bit awkward, but gradually gets bettter as you go.. I really think you have the potential to take a trophy if you were to edit. If you want to leave it as is, that's fine too, but if you wish to take me up on that offer, contact me, revise/edit, and re-enter. This has so much potential... I just think the simple rearrangement of sentence structure would take someone's breath away... I mean that in the most polite way possible.
Good luck in the contest!
Ana
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I really loved this. I wonder how long it took you to come up with this, since I've been sitting here for the past 5 minutes and still haven't the slightest idea what color my wings would be.
I really enjoyed reading it. It was beautiful, and really inspired my own thoughts. Thank you for entering my contest. =] -
I came across this story through viewing your contest
Wow! This is a really thought provoking and amazing write. I would have to think long and hard on that question. You gave me something to sit and ponder over now! Brilliant read.
~Joann
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Awesome thought provoking write! Great job.
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This is great, and very inspiring! It reminds me a lot of, 'What Colour Is Your Parachute', a book on finding out more about your colour personality. Personally, I'd go with red or purple... I have my own reasons for that
Colours can say so much about your personality or emotions... Probably the reason most Goths wears dark colours, etc...
I actually did a project for English class in my final year of high school, where I wrote eight short stories from eight characters' perspectives, and I put each in a different coloured cover, to show off the trait associated with each of them. I used the following ones:
Green: envious
Orange: rebellious
Yellow: fun-loving
Black: dark, introspective
Blue: calm
Red: 'seeing red', emotional
Pink: hopeless romantic
White: emotional emptiness
That's the first thing that came to mind when I read this... So yeah, great job and all the rest!
Laura
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wow
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Wow! This really does make you think. Funny how colors have such meaning, how people put them with emotions and characteristics and things like that. I liked this. I really did. Wonderfully written. God Bless!
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Yes, this is very thought provoking and it does make people think about their own 'colours'. You achieved exactly what you were going for here <3
Kewl!
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Nice...Well written, spelling and grammar's good, syntax is readable, but it's not quite what I was looking for.
However, it's not NOT what I was looking for either. Nice.
Thank you for entering my contest
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You've placed in my other contest so I'm going to remove this from this contest.=/
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I've already commented on this story back in September 11. There's not much else I can say about this story except what I have already said previously. Thank you.
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wow i really like this one its pretty cool
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This is very creative and interesting story. Descriptive and detailed =). I enjoyed this.
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Still lovely to read and it still makes me wonder what colour my wings are, lol. Lovely story.
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Hmm....I think I'd be a light purple. Great job. Very thought-provoking. I loved it, good luck in the contests! And keep writing.
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Rockin!
i like this. The representation of clrs absolutly rocked me. The detail is very good and you didn't leave anything out. Good luck in the contest.
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very good
Very good,
Thought provoking, reflections well expressed.
Well written.
beginning: 4, language: 4, plot: 4, ending: 4, dialog: 4, characters: 4.
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thnx for entering the contest.
wow this was wonderful, i loved it. its very good. great job and keep up the amazing work.
-LostSoul
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Wow.
This is so beautiful, so unique and great.
I really, really love this. It really teaches us something about you in a great way.
This was just...wow.
Great work.
And I wish you luck in the contests
xoxo
Tay
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Wow. What a beautiful piece you have here, with the questions seeming so simple...yet not being so simple. Stories that leave me questioning myself are always exemplary, if you ask me. I have no idea what color my wings are...I'd have to give that a lot of thought.
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wow! this is really awesome! i totally love it and there is this really amazing feeling inside me... i simply love sympbolizing stories and poems!!! its realy good...!
there is some careless mistakes but what the heck! i make them too! and i really enjoy the begining...
i just wanna say, thats its an amazing story and i really like it!
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great story! i enjoyed reading it, and then at the end, it had to think about what color my wings would be. excelent job. thanks for entering my contest.
~kit~
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Amazing story.
However, what option did you choose?
And, if you chose the last option, it was supposed to have never won a contest.
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the option was option one. if you dont think it fits DQ me. but it has a lot of thinking in it, maybe not the word, but the whole story is a thought process i guess. at least thats how i see it. and variations of the word think (thinking, wondering)
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I see now!
Thank you for entering, I won't DQ you!
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Very good. Thought provoking piece. Now you have me thinking what color my wings are..
Really well written.Good job!!!!!!!!!
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Cool, nice interpretation of colors.
Great for making the reader really think about the person they really are.
I liked it, and the ending leaves the reader really thinking about themselves in a way they probably never would.
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This was actually very good. The questions do allow for great insight into your self and it allows the reader to feel the imapct within them.
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It was very beautiful
This was a very sweet and Angelic story. I loved the whole Colors and Wings thing of it. Very poetic and very serene. I'm not sure what to think of this story category wise. I would think that it amounts to a Poem, but it has the characteristics of a story. lol.
All in all I must say job well done on this story/poem lol!
And Good Luck!
beginning: 5, language: 5, plot: 5, ending: 5, dialog: 5, characters: 5.
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Terrific! Not just for the story or the telling but the deeper meanings. You use colors where I feel textures; the end result is the same. There is something to people other than what can been seen by the eyes.
Wings? Of course you have them if you wish to lift above the mass and feel. Nice work.
Jim
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I loved the way how you linked the color purple with all the other colors and their meanings. Good job!
beginning: 5, language: 5, plot: 5, ending: 5, dialog: 5, characters: 5.
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Very nice! It reminded me of the concept of auras, but in an easier, metaphorical way. It was much simpler to understand the way you told it, really. I liked the way dialogue was expressed here, it made the story a personal reflection instead of a narrative. Missing a period at the end of the first explanation, by the way!
Great job!
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Now you have me thinking the same thing, not sure what my colour would be though.
Thanks for sharing this, loved the way you choose the background to suit your story.
sarah.
beginning: 3, language: 3, plot: 3, ending: 3, dialog: 3, characters: 3.
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Absolutely Fabulous. I've wondered about the color of my wings for a while now actually. I think they change as we change. Just my thought. Lovely work
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This was different and beautiful. It made me think about my own wings. Do I have wings? or are they chopped off by the cruel world. A new lease on life. I liked the vibrant nature of the description used with every color.
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This was interesting and thought provoking. Made me take a look at myself and then in myself. My wings are like a really sparkly glitter. My soul is bright bright green because I'm really vibrant and bubbly.
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My wings would be blue for the weariness of being left alone in the cold for so long, but instead of being the dying blue of a persons skin when they are freezing, they'd be a cerulean, not quite healed but getting there.
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nice story so far
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Whoa!
Wow, this is great. The title is superb, very grippping, snd the content too, of course! Something that really makes you think and realize how less (in most cases) you know about yourself!
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I have to admit, the title really pulled me. You delivered the story excellently, and I wasn't disappointed at all. It was so well developed, and so profound. I loved the language you used, and how you mixed the hope with the sorrow.
Great job!
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This was a very thought provoking piece, really. It makes one think, and I love it. Keep writing like this!
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Lol, this was pretty cool, very thoughtful indded. I'm impulsive and said my wings were sky blue, which is odd, it's not even my favorite color >< I don't know why I'd think that. I suppose if you combined the feeling of blue skies and blue days, you'd have my wings.
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Very nice choice of tone, and excellent description in the italicised parts. Try to make your introduction (the first two paragraphs) smoother: right now, it seems like you're trying to cut away to the philosophical parts and ignore the technicalities.
Thanks for entering the contest, and good luck!beginning: 2, language: 3, plot: 3, ending: 3, dialog: 3, characters: 3.
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Good
That was really good, I agree with Abstract, I did wonder what colour my wings are. Definitely interesting and strangely uplifting.
plot: 5, dialog: 3, characters: 4.
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This is an interesting write, for as you read farther into it you wonder what your own answers would be to the questions.
Colors are a powerful thing to some people, especially artists, and each can mean many things.
And of course repeating the title as the last line entices the reader to to think about it more.
Nicely done.
Good luck in the contest.
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It's greyish white with light blue and yellow at the edges. I accept but I'm human afterall. I get hurt too.
I think this is AWESOME.
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Wow this was inspiring, did make me think and I would say my wings and soul are black and in desperate need of light and repair from recent damage.
There was something about this, I don't know what it is, but it drew me in a fair bit and did make me think. The friend part is mysterious, everything about this is mysterious and magical.
It isn't long, which makes it just as magical and wonderful. The shortness of this peice makes it easier to comphrend but then you managed to decsribe colouring of your soul and wings in a small space.
This has me puzzled, but then amazed at the same time.
Tnks you very much for entering this, and goodluck.
~Lady Madeline.
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very interesting~
i wonder what colour my wings are?? Hmmmmbeginning: 5, language: 5, plot: 5, ending: 5, dialog: 5, characters: 5.
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The beginning caught my attention because it made me wonder who were involved in the conversation. It made me visualize a young fairy hovering over a young person, not sure if male or female, in the middle of the forest. I loved the fantasy aspect of your story and although it seems serious, it has an air of wonder to it. It left me thinking about my colours! I love the colour purple and I see myself as a creative person, changing colours all the time. Bravo.
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wow this was a great piece of writing! haha it was indeed very inspiring and opened my mind to things i have never thought about before. I am unsure as to what colour my wings are... It is hard to examine myself deeper into what I believe and see. well done on this piece, it was truly amazing.
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