Danielle Dayney16 Comments on Our Masterpiece 

Our Masterpiece 

Baby?

Will you paint me a picture?

Give me red first. Like lust. Then love, and sometimes anger, but always finish with love again. Orange for pumpkins during our favorite season, Detroit Tigers, and the street cone I tossed out of our nineteenth-floor window. Show me yellow like the sun at Coney Island and the hair of the first little girl I wanted to have. Green like the lawn I prayed we would one day own, and I suppose your favorite football team, too. Blues like the ocean in St. Thomas and tears I’ve cried, both good and bad. Purple for the flowers you bought me that one year.

Remember those?

Shadow and shade the death and sadness, because our lives have had that, too.

And please don’t forget gold for the ring that sparkles on my finger, and white for the dress the day I said, “I do”.

Baby? Paint our picture of forever.

Photo courtesy of Morgan Sessions/Unsplash.

Published by Danielle Dayney

Born and raised in Ohio, Danielle Dayney got her start writing rock concert reviews for a music magazine called The Glass Eye in Toledo. Today, her work has appeared in the Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Huffington Post, Dead Housekeeping, The Mindful Word, and in several anthologies including the Virginia Writers Centennial Anthology, Nevertheless We Persisted, and Beach Reads: Lost and Found. She also received awards at BlogHer for her creative nonfiction essays. Her debut essay collection is forthcoming from Brandylane Publishers.

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16 thoughts on “Our Masterpiece ”

  1. travel460 February 23, 2017 — 4:03 am

    Your writing is also a masterpiece, Danielle.

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  2. ellenbehm February 23, 2017 — 3:48 pm

    This gave me chills. The short 1 sentence paragraphs work as a great frame around the description of the colors.

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      Danielle Dayney February 23, 2017 — 3:54 pm

      Thank you so much, Ellen! I’m glad you liked it.

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  3. innatejames February 23, 2017 — 5:45 pm

    I like how you acknowledged the dark parts of the painting in the otherwise cheerful piece.

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  4. vajpayee04 February 23, 2017 — 6:04 pm

    Really a masterpiece!

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  5. d3athlily February 23, 2017 — 9:10 pm

    This was just beautiful, D! I loved the large paragraph in the midst of the sentence-long ones to highlight all of the elements of the masterpiece.

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  6. rubybastille February 23, 2017 — 11:21 pm

    Great imagery, especially with yellow. I want to know why a traffic cone was thrown out a window! And I liked how the meaning of “baby” changed at the end.

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      Danielle Dayney February 24, 2017 — 1:38 am

      Honestly we were young and stupid. I wanted to see if it would bounce.

      It didn’t.

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  7. unfoldingfromthefog February 24, 2017 — 1:10 am

    A lovely love story woven into a brief rainbow of colors. The theme carried through beautifully.

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  9. Zovi :) March 27, 2017 — 7:15 pm

    I love the way you describe the ups and downs of life in such a beautiful way!

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