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Best Blood Red Poems

Below are the all-time best Blood Red poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of blood red poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: blood red, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Sowing
Upon the wind sheltered hillside,
the sharp tang of metal and the sting of salt air lay
over a field of blood-red poppies, no Flanders Field.

At years...

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Categories: blood red, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)

Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...

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Categories: blood red, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...

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Categories: blood red, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Magic Beans
Our first awareness
      falling through time
      through blood-rain, pure white snow, green vegetation 
 ...

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Categories: blood red, adventure, chocolate, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Violin Notes Fall From Heaven No More
Her trembling twilight 
dims with streaking purple tears
bruised by youthful years of bleeding pain
hurting but never hugged --
locked in the arms of atmosphere’s apathy
that smeared...

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Categories: blood red, child abuse, death, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Orange Blossoms
The amethyst paeans of hyacinth
crest with a gust of butterflies
on the scent of orange blossoms
cascading to earth like snow flakes.
Blood-red geraniums blazon Spring's birth
not with...

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Categories: blood red, flower, metaphor, spring,
Form: Free verse
What More Can We Do
Haunted by the death of dreams 
and slaughtering of innocence 
but too afraid to dig up the bones 
and examine our own mistakes, 
we bury...

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Categories: blood red, anger, children, death, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Apocalypse Now
Running through the Lost Forest of no tomorrows, my heart beats at warp speed as the hideous howls draw nearer. My thoughts briefly digress to...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blood red, anxiety, fear,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Chimera
Bellerophon was sent for by king Lobates of Lycia
And given the dangerous task of slaying the Chimera
A fierce creature like a lion with a goats...

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Categories: blood red, animal, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fading Rose
 When love blossoms, in full bloom, the rose of bright 
scarlet dances with sculptured petalled passion
 as alluring fragrance enchants to ignite
senses and heart...

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Categories: blood red, lost love, rose,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Moods of Mourning
Season of death kisses in hues,
of gold, auburn and blood red views.
Cold air wraps around like a quilt.
Morbid clouds veil my sun with guilt.
As tears...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blood red, analogy, angst, emotions,
Form: Quintilla
Premium Member Die Another Day
“Die Another Day”


“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”


“The Place is a hazardous...

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Categories: blood red, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: blood red, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)

Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they...

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Categories: blood red, courage, fantasy, hero, history,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things