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Short Red Faces Poems

Short Red Faces Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Red Faces by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Red Faces by length and keyword.


On the Fifth Floor, and On the Narrow Staircases
On the fifth floor, and on the narrow staircases,
Porters raised the piano with angry red faces.
"My friends - you seems to like a light music?" -
Somebody asked them. The porters bruised him!...

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Categories: red faces, funny,
Form: Quatrain



English Hill
Come with me to St Matthews cemetery
a flock of culpability
What are red faces for ?
The incidence of pious Rosetta
At the graves edge
he was returned
An avalanche of prayers
omits forgiveness 
A life unworthily lived
unmatching the reverend 

The bats resume their business
The uneasiness of the pews
Feathers are the sinews of hope
Their curved plumage
thinks well of an English Hill...

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Categories: red faces, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Why
Why when leaves are dying their glory grades of green, red and gold adorn the world

yet when humans die their skins already start to fall apart; blue veins deepen,

brown liver spots increase and mauve red faces show pain and denial, hope or 

acceptance of their fate yet no outward glory? We will be remembered by History, for a 

time, by God if He is in His heaven for all time, as the leaves are trodden underfoot -mush....

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Categories: red faces, religious, red,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things