Tuesday, October 01, 2013

if i were...revisited


if i were a month i’d be september.

if i were a day i’d be friday.

if i were a time of day i’d be midnight.

if i were a font i’d be courier.

if i were a sea animal i’d be tuna.

if i were a direction i’d be true north.

if i were a piece of furniture i’d be one of those awesome foldable swedish tables.

if i were a liquid i’d be chardonnay sur lie from delheim.

if i were a gemstone i’d be a sapphire.

if i were a tree i’d be a maple.

if i were a tool i’d be a paintbrush.

if i were a flower i’d be a sunflower.

if i were an element of weather i’d be thunder clouds.

if i were a musical instrument i’d be a saxophone.

if i were a color i’d be aqua.

if i were an emotion i’d be content.

if i were a fruit i’d be a mango.

if i were a sound i’d be the purr of a cat.

if i were an element i’d be hydrogen.

if i were a car i’d be a smart car.

if i were a food i’d be forest mushrooms in garlic butter.

if i were a place i’d be home.

if i were material i’d be linen.

if i were a taste i’d be salty.

if i were a scent i’d be sisley no. 2.

if i were a body part i’d be hands.

if i were a song i’d be sheryl crow's all i wanna do.

if i were a bird i’d be a swan.

if i were a gift i’d be handmade.

if i were a city i’d be istanbul.

if i were a door i’d be painted blue.

if i were a pair of shoes i’d be stilettos.

if i were a poem i’d be ithaca by constantine cavafy.

and don't forget to check how i answered back in 2010 and 2011. i had completely forgotten about this list, i found it by following one of my own link within links, which is odd, because that's not something i normally do.  it was rather fun to just listen to my intuitive answers to the questions. drop me a comment if you try it too!

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

I played too! http://cestlavietlb.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/3386/

celkalee said...

Never finished my list, life got in the way. Will work on a new one, thanks for reminding me. That blue door, brilliant.

rayfamily said...

I am joining in :) http://rayfamilyfarm.blogspot.com/2013/10/if-i-were.html

Lisa at lil fish studios said...

Funny, this is a game I play with the kids when I'm trying to get them to sleep. Did I learn it from you?

Lisa at lil fish studios said...

I joined in too: http://lilfishstudios.blogspot.com/2013/10/if-i-were.html

heidikins said...

Oooh, I love this. Love, love, love.

xox

marie said...

I'm visiting from "lil fish studios".
What a fun idea!

julochka said...

it seems that "ithaca" doesn't change for me. i'm a one poem kinda girl.

Blue Dragon Arts said...

i've never read your poem 'ithica' before, WOW, that's a great poem, thank you for sharing!!!!!!!

The Knitty Gritty Homestead said...

beautiful!! I joined up and linked to you...have never done this but enjoyed the writing exercise immensely!

http://www.theknittygrittyhomestead.blogspot.ca/2013/10/if-i-were.html

marie said...

I completed the "If I were..." prompts too. It was fun...and I enjoyed that the answers came to me so quickly.
http://spunbyme.blogspot.com/2013/10/if-i-were.html

celkalee said...

I did my list, the answers were intuitive. Much easier than I thought, thanks for this little exercise.
http://sewtopia.blogspot.com/

m. bloom said...

thanks for the wonderful idea... this was a lot of fun...

here's mine
http://webloomhere.blogspot.com/2013/10/if-i-were.html

cheers --
mb