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Tag Archives: color poems
Seven years after she makes her escape
, all she remembers is blood -red wine in fragile glasses, and empty plates the color of bone. ::twiglet #225
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Tagged best china, bone china, color poems, escape, past life poems, red red wine, twiglets, wine
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seeing red
the anger fades in lurid liquid shades of burgundymerlotsangria ,and the claret-y comes in wine and waves,saves us slowly sip by sip. we slip our hands together in prayerand painand praise of slight squashed dreams and mangled grapes. Linda’s got a great word for us over at dVerse … Continue reading
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Tagged color poems, dVerse poems, Q44, Quadrille, reconciliation, red red wine, seeing red, wine
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When the sky is just the perfect shade of blue
, ‘it’s the color of my wedding dress!’ she saysand he always fires back ‘periwinkle?’ and there’s a wink built right in and then she says ‘cornflower blue.’ and after 22 years it’s something that never gets old, always new, this laughter borrowed over blue. :: written for poetic asides November … Continue reading
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Tagged color poems, cornflower blue, November Chapbook Challenge 2020, sky poems
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i can’t imagine her wild
{mood ring: forgiveness, and other disasters} i. midnight-maroon, for her darkest hour swoon, her great craving for protest and anti -hate, war. ii. gun metal gray for her weary worn heart and its shaky veins, brave un -broken beat. iii. … Continue reading
Grad(u)ations of Color, Light
.. We are still learning, yearning for some diploma -cy, some salutatorian sunrise promise. Hold this crimson close, that one in a vermillion horizon to heart; start asking all the right questions: Can I pocket this praise? Can I fill … Continue reading
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Tagged color poems, crimson, diploma, diplomacy what I did there, gradations of light, graduation, question poems, sunrise, sunset, vermillion
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Struck by Macaw {W61.12}
.. I knew it when I tum -bled here into this jungle: life ain’t got an easy streak. Didya know the world ain’t flat? But that’s a misnomer cuz I’ve still got all this gray, today. Per -haps, on impact, … Continue reading
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Tagged color poems, colors, poeming, Poetry, Quickly's Winter Doldrums, struck by macaw
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Mermaid Soul
.. When it’s fin -ally time for her to go, just dip her ….. in ……….indigo. . Prompted by OctPoWriMo, day 8.
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Tagged blue poems, breathing in blue, color poems, indigo poems, mermaid poems, OctPoWriMo, poeming
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Swatches
.. Give us your poor, your proud, your purplest mountains and most amber shades of day. Give us your periwinkle, puce, your silver-gray, longing to be free, and framed. Brush my skin in 47 hues of brightest boldest mutest blue, … Continue reading
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Tagged choice poems, color poems, My Many Colored Days, Poets United
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pallid palette
.. these wings could use some color be -yond the pale-pooled milky moon murmur of their own skin. let’s shade ourselves in indigo and jade, play up our verdant eyes and surprise the world in saffron ver -million splendor. … Continue reading
Local Color
.. Fling green everywhere you go and throw a little in digo in, too. Azure tide, alpine blue, free spirit; let’s gather-spatter wandering willow, fancy flirt, frag -rant cloves. Dunk your hungry hands in and finger-paint this sky in all … Continue reading
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Tagged blue poems, blues, clouds, color poems, indigo, poeming, Poetry, quickly prompts, Quickly Summer, sky songs
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