Best Scarlett Poems

Scarlett thought she was promised permanent security. 
Satchels of resilience bound her fragile wrists. 
Woodland deities hailed her.
Underworld demons feared her.
The curious townsfolk simply stood in contemplation - 
Inviting epee's gleamed in their eyes 
as the garden shears, in their hands, smiled. 

Scarlett oft pretended...

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Scarlet Rivers--by David Lustrup 2016


if you saw my heart tonight
you wouldn't recognize it
trodden trampled torn apart
before i realized it

shredded hanging bleeding
tendons torn and tattered
you were everything to me
you were all that mattered

and now im drowning in this blackness
circling the drain im going down
where is the...

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Scarlett in "Gone With the Wind" goes                   --- AFTER
Ashley even though she has thus far had in          ...

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They always said there was no feeling like it
No words could describe,
Now I know exactly what they mean
My heart melted inside.

From the moment I heard
I was smitten,
Then when you arrived
In the stars it was written.

Like the perfect medicine
You have been described
Changing so many lives
From heaven...

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Crimson fingernails pull back the curtain,
her pale skin blending into the sheerness of it.
She was never as close to him as she was tonight.
The blood moon glow of her eyes knew him well,
though not a word was spoken between them,
nor did he know her name.......

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Ten little fingers,
Ten little toes.
Perfect little eyes,
A perfect little nose.
Something wrong inside,
A cure no one knows.

Twenty five days
Before she had to leave.
Twenty five days
And now we all grieve.
God's taken her home,
That's what we believe.

Ten little fingers,
Ten little toes.
Scarlett has left us
As tears of sorrow flow.


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I look at her picture ... she'll never grow old.
A feathered headband on her small, downy head.
The pain will lessen, that's what we've been told
but we've so few memories of a babe , now dead.

Scarlett of name, a moniker bold,
for such a wee thing, fragile...

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Tara must have pulled the ground up
Over her head, you made us all
See nothing but red

Incessant bawlin', rebel drawlin'
Rhett! Rhett! Rhett!
T'was not those phony charms
That drove him from your arms

A petite, whining Southern Belle
From Hell, couldn't see the
Georgia forest in those trees

Face it now, Rhett...

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From ashes of Sokovia, a twin sister rose,
With powers of chaos and psionic flows,
Wanda they called her, tethered spirit unfurled,
As women before her, she reckoned this world. 

Her pain born of loss, and hurt tragedy,
Fueled a hatred not native and made enemy,
Tony Stark, as she...

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Scarlet O'Hara,
Arrogant misunderstood belle and beauty, from the plantation Tara
caught up in war, love for Rhett, and her OWN survival and money,
she made a dress from green velvet drapes, fiddle-dee-dee, honey.


Rhett Butler
a handsome rogue, a charmer, a gambler of many a dollar, 
with knowledge of...

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Forbidden, a remake of a 17th century love story
Forbidden, a contagion unstable or a light merry fable
Forbidden like cookies when we were developing, delicate little giants
Forbidden...ask the girl with the emerald eyes, with the forest eyes
tie a rope to the waist just in case 
for...

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It's kind of romantic
how I can guide
you with my touch
alone, the way your
fingers twitch slightly when 
I tap you gently. 

My first marvellous creation. 
It took me hours
to take you apart
and weld back together.
I am forever grateful
that you're the one.

Or I was, until
I saw my...

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One night when stars possessed the universe,
plantation winds screamed violently;
Cupid's wings thrashed against a pane. 
When the arrow pierced her chest,
her winter's heart too late
was made to know pure
love. . . Fever came,
and still she
cannot
rest.

For the Gone with the Wind Poetry contest...

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This is a dedication to my recently welcomed grand-daughter into our hearts and home. My son and wife called her, "Scarlett Petal" she definitely is a real precious gem of a beauty bright.




Petals of Scarlett


Petal of Scarlett
invites sweet fragrance of love
in our treasured lives


Oct. 27,...

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Gathered with sister, my mother and kleenex,
Oblivious to our red noses, facial poses and tears,
Nudging each other with movie memory reflex -
Each of us embrace characters long held as dear.

We submit joyously to this continuous, intense escape
Inside the lives of scandalous Scarlett and romantic Rhett.
Trials...

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