Reddened Poems

Matildas Concert in Hinde

...Movement Shod
Heeling halt
Abbreviated democracy
Flank in route

Gaurd maneuver out

Folded company

Beret for address

Redress complete

Back in Britain

Marina Ann Hantzis

Princes...
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Categories: reddened, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Ended in misery

...The heat creeps into the empty fabric
only getting colder
inside the tightly closed gray jacket
no warmth of jokes and laughter
nor embraces that are increasingly glowing
please, close your eyes...
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Categories: reddened, allusion, bereavement, devotion, feelings,
Form: Free verse


Premium Memberboy scouts

...as we walk upon, rocky of sands
where the waves lapses
so close to knocking us over...

where the crabs with little
claws can still cause pain
despite their small sizes,
Red are their colors
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Categories: reddened, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNever A Gain

...I’ve been asked to explain the words ‘Never A Gain’!
So I’ll limn it here plain, all that’s ‘Never A Gain’:

                              Death, destruction and pain define Never A Gain,
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Categories: reddened, death, history, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme

Inevitable Procession

...If you were to ask me
Be the one to catch me, before i take the fall
You'd be the only one waiting, afterall
For whence i open my mouth and
Spill a sea of pills tinged with reddened liquor 
I th...
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Categories: reddened, dad, for him, sorry,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberWhen Yellow Flower Was Dyed Orange Then Red

...In this summer month of her what would have been her 21st birthday,
I see bed of withering red orange tiger lilies and say,
"Your death reddened you, yellow flower, into an orange, then red."...
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Categories: reddened, death, flower, grief, loss,
Form: Sijo

Premium MemberUnder the brass sky of Iashy city, our steps dance in the night

...Under the brass sky of Iashy city, our steps dance in the night,
Through dusty streets where old buildings hide forgotten stories,
With beer mugs like ephemeral treasures in hands that tremble,
Be...
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Categories: reddened, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Chinese Translations IV

...CHINESE TRANSLATIONS IV

These are English translations of Chinese poems about nature, the seasons, autumn, winter, spring, night, time, tears, flowers and love. 

Seeking a Mooring
by Wang Wei
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Categories: reddened, autumn, love, nature, night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIrReligious MisEducation

...S/he is controversially counter-cultural

And yet,
MotherEartha defensively claims,
not so:

We grow trans-regenerational
transubstantiating substances
and subjects
to integrate more sacredl...
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Categories: reddened, god, health, peace, political,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberOld Man

...Old Man

his weatherbeaten face, lined
with the hills and valleys of age
watery blue eyes set against a
backdrop of bloodshot white
his cheeks reddened from
sun and alcohol, his aquiline
nose...
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Categories: reddened, age,
Form: Free verse

deep crime

...inside if mind
no less of ledged, against
you bet, wild
that i didn't wink
sworn to soar over with oath
in torn battled threads
instill 
i'd fend 
often from wherever  

in between needles,...
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Categories: reddened, america, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Broken Sacrifice

...Broken Sacrifice?

Left as a sacrifice 
Bound in chains her only shield from the elements 
A  cloak lined in ermine and rabbit fur 
Keeping her warm as the rains fall 
All watched the ceremony ...
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Categories: reddened, beautiful, betrayal, courage, dream,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberWEDDING

...
       On reddish twilight,
       couple young and bright
       in love at first sight.
       Flowing emotion 
       on new relation.
       Though they met by chance.
       She blushed ...
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Categories: reddened, love,
Form: Rhyme

The Death I Romanticize once I Think of You

..."With every fiber of my being, my eyes glimpse at my whole life gone avail and unjust; the sacrifice mother had made before birth was certainly not enough, wish I had gone through the flames of 
Nor...
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Categories: reddened, absence, abuse, addiction, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnder the leaden sky, the rain drips its melancholy in the rhythm of cold tears

...Under the leaden sky, the rain drips its melancholy in the rhythm of cold tears,
On my stained oak coffin, the tattered shirt absorbs the crimson hues,
Where the earth churns in the silence of my e...
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Categories: reddened, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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