Long Reddest Poems
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Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
reddest, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters
Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
reddest, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37
I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
reddest, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
Honoring You In Living Color
Kitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
.
Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
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Yellow and purple tinted fingers; dandelions and elderberries distilling; musty aroma...
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Categories:
reddest, mom, mother, mother daughter, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Issa Translations II
These are English translations of Issa haiku about the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Autumn wind ...
She always wanted to pluck
the reddest roses
?Kobayashi Issa translation by Michael R. Burch
Issa wrote the haiku above after the death...
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Categories:
reddest, autumn, rose, spring, stars, summer, wind, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Great Is Thy Faithfulness Lord Unto Me Collections
O Great is Thy Faithfulness O LORD GOD my heavenly Father,
There is none other in the heavens likened unto to Thee, all I
Have ever needed Thy Holy hands have truly provided for
Great is Thy Faithfulness!...
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Categories:
reddest, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Lyric
A Trip To Heaven
Sitting working in my private room a grandfather clock ticks and tocks so very loudly,
Like a metronome tuned into my mind my eyes become heavy my lids slowly begin to close,
My mind drifts into very...
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Categories:
reddest, angel, beautiful, me, nice, people, rose, dark,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Young Nick Rides Out
And was it not foretold from the days of my youth
Your lives predicted in an absolute truth.
You, Young Nick, spawn of the Old Nick, do that which you must do.
Do it quickly.
You have put it...
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Categories:
reddest, atheist, betrayal, bible, destiny, evil, innocence, jealousy,
Form:
Free verse
A Song For My Beloved
Our Beloved returns with a mighty entourage
his banner men ride before him
they are swifter than...
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Categories:
reddest, bible, inspiration, love, passion, song, spiritual, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Belle of the Ball - Repost
Note: This is a long one. Just a warning before you start reading. : )
Outside the walls stood a handmaiden gazing
Twisting her skirt between fingers so frail
Patches of burlap were sewn on the garment
Cut...
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Categories:
reddest, fantasy, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Nature Walk, Nature Talk
I was a zealous, blue patrol officer, preserving the safer public environments,
As black, diamond nights come in sequence, with the glittery enlightenments.
I helped to direct ephemeral traffic, serving justice and enforcing eternal law,
Like moonlit streets...
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Categories:
reddest, beauty, community, fantasy, imagery, nature, work,
Form:
Couplet
The Belle of the Ball
Outside the walls stood a handmaiden gazing
Twisting her skirt between fingers so frail
Patches of burlap were sewn on the garment
Cut from a sack of a barley oat bale
Oh how she dreamed of the opulent palace
Silver...
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Categories:
reddest, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ballad of Snow White
A queen was spinning flax one day.
She gave her loom a jerk.
(Don’t ask what “flax” or “looms” might be,
or why a queen must work).
She pricked her finger (careful, now!)
yet Sigmund Freud would say
these children’s tales...
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Categories:
reddest, abortion, fairy,
Form:
Ballad
I Met a Little Man Up On the Green - a Rhyme For New Year's Eve
I met a little man up on The Green
On New Year’s Eve, and he was two foot two
With quite the reddest nose I’ve ever seen
And eyes as bright as summer skies are blue
‘What brings you...
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Categories:
reddest, england, fairy, happy, magic, myth, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Revenge Is Sweet
REVENGE IS SWEET
Once upon a time
almost toothless
The hunchback hag picked
~ a juicy red apple ~
With malicious intent
Toward her stepdaughter foe
The sinful fruit
~ perfectly round ~
Like her snow white face
The mirror mocks
The wrinkled old witch
As she...
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Categories:
reddest, anger, beauty, sin, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
The Forgotten Me
There is a forgotten me in me
The sound of rain in the gutter
The satisfied passion that is obvious in me
It is the desire of life and the thought of death
A drunken song that was in...
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Categories:
reddest, baby, black love, first love, heartbroken, i
Form:
Free verse
Mr Pickle's Party
It was a party, but so much more.
Each participant came directly from
their origins; not from the community
store. There was no alcohol and all the
beverages were Fruit and Vegetable based.
None but healthy fruits and veggies were
allowed...
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Categories:
reddest, change, fruit,
Form:
Free verse
Triple Distatich-Godfearing Grandpa
Godfearing grandpa died over two decades ago,
he had an adventureous spirit bolder than any explorer of long ago;
and in his many voyages: from tumultuous Argentina
to Canada and America...he immensely missed
his faithful and beautiful blue-eyed wife...
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Categories:
reddest, dedication, faith, family, father, food, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
The Showering Lotus
Endearing the gods of enlightenment, dip tenderly into the rainbows
Color band of intrinsic light, softly breathing, as the hushed breath of
A morning doves first coo of life, the lotus flower does blossom and bloom.
Infusions delicate...
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Categories:
reddest, beauty, creation, freedom, imagery, inspirational, sensual, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Harvest - a Trilogy
"ONE
“Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!”
i tick the trickling time of your heart
set in a fast paced, rat raced end of nought
burying your precious life for my rise of worthless death
in traitor riches of an annihilating amassment
and you lose his...
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Categories:
reddest, dark, death, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Jelly Beaming Lights - Revised
When the sky rains down in jelly bean lights
Colors bright, multiplying themselves through lightning bolts
Seen through their candy cracks opened loud
Like clouded green glass glowing thick
Glowing wide jello wavering in a blinding flash
Across the landscape...
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Categories:
reddest, adventure, baby, beautiful, candy, celebration, children, easter,
Form:
Free verse
The Dreariness of This Frigid Season
Goodbye Fall with all the auburn leaves of the reddest sunset,
goodbye crackling path where I met the last songbirds,
whose melody accompained me to winter's doors;
and with deep sadness I kept on looking back.
Welcome gloomy winter...
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Categories:
reddest, adventure, funny, hope, imagination, loss, nature, nostalgia,
Form:
Quatrain
The Enchantress With the Greenest of Eyes
The Enchantress with the Greenest of Eyes
This lady is quite lovely and most fascinating with the greenest of eyes,
And she’ll easily captivate and bewitch all men she meets with no surprise.
This lady has the reddest...
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Categories:
reddest, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy, fear, horror, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Sestina of Autofill
I am an evening of scented season,
wondering if you've given me
this stairway with the gold curls.
Who changed her name to Stacy?
Later in my throbbing red heart,
you were forest green and lush apples.
I have learned...
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Categories:
reddest, love,
Form:
Sestina
My Bloody Valentine
*Vaaz= vase
You offered roses delivered thorns, blood drips and your body adorns ~
Slumped, soaked in crimson your heart forever mine, retribution has come, my bloody valentine—by Poet
Once upon a time lived Angel, an androgynous...
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Categories:
reddest, death, love hurts, valentines day,
Form:
Rhyme