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Prompt 1: Red
Red is a strong color that is associated with a variety of things including: courage, power, glory, love, passion, inner strength, romance, sensuality, defiance, tenacity, violence, life, pleasure, fire, and revolution.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams
Into a common light of common hours
Until old age brings the red flare again. —William Butler Yeats

For some, the color red can signify personal power and tenacity. When something flares red for you, what does that mean? When was the last time you felt the power of a red concept or emotion?

Please feel free to answer in whichever way comes naturally to you, be it a memory you share or an artwork you create

Red reminds me of violence, but I always told people red was my favorite color as a child. So red reminds me of being playful-- but also violence.

"A Sanguine Affair"

One hand to hold a sharpened blade,
One hand to pull flesh taut.
I set about my grizzly task.
Flesh is severed and pulp filleted.
Hands dyed crimson,
A blade marooned.
My work complete--
thus do I yell,
"The beets are ready, time to eat!"