Best Blood Orange Poems

The blood orange moon hung low
the sky around an eerie orange.
Trees turned bronze in its light
and water the colour of marmalade.

A strange twilight night this Halloween
basted in hues of various orange streaks.
Tis easy this all saints night to believe
and even see the orange clad ghouls...

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Pine needles and leaves swirl in the wind making perfect circles on the ground as I drink fizzy blood orange juice
I wait to see it again but this time they rain down from the nearby tree and one pine needle falls perfectly into my can...

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biting the bullet

savor the aftertaste

of lead killed

by friendly fire

we learn to listen

to our own voice

peeling an orange

from the inside out

every day our lives

try to start again

if we are afraid

to live our dreams

how are these

not nightmares...

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~the sky aflame in the gloaming as the sleepy day prepares for bed~



Date posted: 07/30/2021...

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