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Best Reddened Poems

Below are the all-time best Reddened poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of reddened poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member aching sky -
I knelt amidst the mountain's rise
        beneath the weeping opal skies
       ...

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Categories: reddened, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bloody Feet Upon the Slab
That tiny pause to skirt the truth, half-reals you'd paraphrase,
The subtle softly spinning gyre of cunning in your gaze,
Vague reflections from your skin - a...

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Categories: reddened, addiction, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond the Cracks
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: reddened, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Star Witness Potd
While we walked home from the movies, one moonlit starry night,
My friends and I talked and laughed, enjoying summer's delights.

The streets were quite silent, as...

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Categories: reddened, creation, fantasy, friendship, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Great Contest Expectations, the Folly of Man
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: reddened, angst, dark, death, desire,
Form: Free verse



If This Beauty Shall Be My Final Curtain, Let It Be Dropped Slowly
Parched and dry, this barren field stretches,
I wander, head hung low,
staring at the emptiness eclipsing my thoughts
Brittle blades of grass disappear beneath 
my worn out...

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Categories: reddened, love,
Form: Epic
Winds of Change
i lay stilled atop this muddied cold ground
a castaway like autumn's leaves deadened
unable, unwilling to move around
i sit bloodied, like skies of dawn, reddened

i am...

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Categories: reddened, autumn, december, november, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Deathbeds In the Desert -
The sand is stained red
with our bygone blood,
the blood that brought us from Ararat to the Alti,
a tribe trekking intrepidly through the Eurasian terrain,
caravans of...

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Categories: reddened, creation, history, western,
Form: Epic
A Jasmine Garland Seller
A female tongue pushes me down from the swing of sleep.
Rain kids rouse the stink of railway track in the dawn.
A long chain of complaints...

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Categories: reddened, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Refrigerator Boogies
I was dancing and prancing 
And singing whooped Dee Dee
Not realizing I was not alone
Until he opened his shirt to me

He threw out the mayo,...

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Categories: reddened, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Gettysburg
Walk does he not the specter of death, 
His saith raised high, even he himself has had
Enough killing, on the battlefield of Gettysburg,
Satan screams, stop...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reddened, america, history, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
I'Ll Ne'Er Forget That Day Old Mate
My heart was pumping hard that day I faced the maddening crowd, 
Despite the spinning in my head I stood there mighty proud. 
Though racked...

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Categories: reddened, funny, day, prayer, day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Sat Beneath a Veteran Oak
I sat beneath a Veteran-oak,
In awe of His strength—
Here was a solid spirit!
Sympathy you get from Willow,
But stiff upper-lip from old soldiers,
With forged bark —
His...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reddened, allegory, allusion, father, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Squalls of Emotion
Another night of loneliness   
She sits waiting for his call
In silence she grows restless 
Emotional rain begins to fall

Tonight her phone will not...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reddened, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
The Christmas Mule
So many years had passed, he was the offspring of a horse and ass. 
Quickly discounted, the young mule was sold over and over again...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reddened, animal, god, mother son,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things