Best Hue Poems

The wonder of your smile is always there,
   just like you gave me on that special day,
      when first I saw you on my front porch stair-
your smile imprinted in my heart to stay.

Just as in spring and...

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As the cycles of night and day renew,
a rising sun inks ebony skies blue.
And making crystal drops of morning dew
sparkle like diamonds, Dawn's first light breaks through.

While the horizon bleeds a blood-red hue,
the twinkling stars disappear right on cue.
And an owl breaks the silence with...

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Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
helped Santa out one year.
To keep his nose lit steady,
he used an Everready!

14~12~2014
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Contest Name: A Christmas Character Clerihew ...

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Colors dance on the canvass of my life
In an intricate interplay of hues
Intensifying and weakening at different stages
Fluid colors in constant motion
As I age, different colors take precedence
While others slowly recede
Still present, yet less visible

Some colors are all time favorites
Ever strong, ever making their presence...

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Without Hue

WHITE
a sign in all caps meaning
forbidden
first class
clean and more importantly correct.
Bedsheets and tablecloths
flowing in the night 
with madness most great
slowly blanketing the world’s peoples
in a snow of blond descent
while faces of the past that tainted African blood 
stare back from the 21st century reflection...

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silence falls, flurries
damp whispers, sighs descending ~
breath embracing grace







A NEW HIKU FOOTLE TANKA Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand 
November 12, 2022
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If I ever found myself in a room full of people I've loved
You'd be there twice
Because in every person I've loved after you
I've tried to find a piece of you
If you mix together all the colors in the world you get black 
And if I...

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The wind rushes through the valley
whispering your name.
Autumn trees begin to release their leaves
reluctantly, trying to hold on to summer.
I see your reflection in droplets of rain,
I share your joys, and feel your pain, yet
you have moved on without a thought of 
what we once...

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Fill my craving with your zesty rind
In the mist of my longing, come splashing
Ingest my inn with your piquant smiles

Will you rain like dew for my pipe is parched?
Drizzle my windows with decorative light and
Melt your pot in that multihued bend

Be my condiment in this...

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If I could paint a memory
It would have all the colors of you
warm splashes of sweet tenderness
and a moon surrounded in a purple hue
 
If I could paint loneliness
I would color it blue and gray 
Just the way I miss you
On every cloudy rainy day
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white snow crab must wade
in oily, thick, blackened tides...
dressed in widow's garbs

7/7/19

haiku-hue Poetry Contest    Sponsored by: Kim Rodrigues 
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Painting past midnight
Colors bleed on the paper
Capturing people
Giving each one breath and life
Touching a heart with love’s hue
	

©2014 by Regina Riddle...

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I stood atop a mountain, long ago,


               My breath gone, from the blushing sunset skies,


So sad, I'd ne'er again behold that glow ...
      

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I've tried the moon titled in air 
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster 
As you might try a jewel in your hair 
She sat quietly deaf to the river
Shadows line along the old rocking chair
Rippling chords and running deep 
Hidden in the darkness and shiver 
Fiddling...

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Today the clouds have a purple hue,
Not like yesterday when they were blue.
Does the purple hue bring gloom and doom,
Or does it imbue a hint of pink in view?
 
The clouds have flattened,
And lost their cumulus shape.
Now exhibiting a lenticular view,
Still exposing the purple hue.
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