Best Redding Poems
Oh Noisy ReddingRedding Poem 1
"Oh Noisy Redding"
There at the Thunderbird Lodge in downtown Redding,
I heard the gods screaming from steel axles with rubber
Claws, scratching the timeless asphalt streets with mayhem.
I heard the sirens from the mysterious distances on Market Street,
As monster machines hovered above with roaring determinations,
And...
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Categories:
redding, america, urban,
Form:
Free verse
A Beauty From Redding~
A beauty from Redding,
alone on a hillside,
where dreams play viola
and wishes agree
Hair spun of moonbeams.
as eyes tend to wander.
while sharing the shade
of a sycamore tree
Gathering daisies.
with petals for pulling.
near shadows now painting
designs on the ground
Following seasons.
in soft subtle colors.
past butterfly whispers
of barely a sound
Endlessly dancing.
like...
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Categories:
redding, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Otis Reddingi worked on
a bay dock
hotter than
sin but in the
winter warmth
was remembrance
but i never
forgot what
confused
consumed
me that i
thought
that which
would be
me and
please
beam
me
up Scotty
only to hear
i've no control
Captain you are
going to be a molecular
jigsaw puzzle of one thousand
pieces
to be put
back together
again Humpty
Dumpty but was
this puzzle before or
after
the
fall...
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Categories:
redding, muse,
Form: