Tag Archives: red

The Sisters and The Fox

Posted on May 24, 2020 by

Written for: Sunday Muse #109   Scarlet roses interlaced swirlsof blonde hair, a contrastto her pale, fair face. In plucking her flowers, thorns pierced her fingers, prickling them with beads of bloodand grime. Her snow-hued sister chose white roses for … Continue reading →

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Sly

Posted on April 8, 2020 by

Written for:  Blogging From A To Z – “F” She was sly as a fox, but not a red one so people saw through her. http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/what-is-blogging-from-to-z.html

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The Saddest Color

Posted on April 2, 2020 by

Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics:  Seeing Red!  (posted by sarahsouthwest) “Tonight, I want to celebrate the colour red. What a powerful colour it is – it always sends a strong message. Let’s think for a moment about what … Continue reading →

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Mars

Posted on March 4, 2020 by

Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub – Haibun Monday – Mars  (posted by Frank J. Tassone) “Write a haibun that references Mars” As a child, I was intrigued by Mars purely for the color–a red planet. If there were people living … Continue reading →

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deep pile carpet

Posted on February 5, 2020 by

Written for:  The Twiglets #162 – “deep pile carpet” carpet so luxurious, lost my ring and was furious The carpet was deep pile red, like a bloodstain. deep green carpet installed parakeet escaped they still look for him A man … Continue reading →

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Volcano

Posted on September 24, 2019 by

Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #88 – And the Word Is . . .  (posted by Linda Lee Lyberg) So many words to choose from but today I have chosen – Extinction Definition of Extinction 1 : the … Continue reading →

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canna lily

Posted on August 15, 2019 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem #1721 Canna Lily “This month we are creating a bouquet of field flowers and today I have another nice flower for you, which not always is seen in wild nature, but often in gardens, but it … Continue reading →

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autumn evening

Posted on November 15, 2018 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem #1541 – Evening (modern kigo) Back to our Autumn month “the leaves are falling” … Today I have chosen two nice haiku by Jane Reichhold taken from her “A Dictionary of Haiku” section Autumn, subsection Celestial. … Continue reading →

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Closed Heart

Posted on August 25, 2017 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem #1240 Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue (Barnett Newman) “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue” is a series of four large-scale paintings by Barnett Newman painted between 1966 and 1970. Two of them have … Continue reading →

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Night Poppies

Posted on March 6, 2017 by

Written for:  Carpe Diem #1166 Nightflower Hafiz, a Sufi poet, expressed in poetry love for the divine, and the intoxicating oneness of union with it.  Hafiz, along with many Sufi masters, uses wine as the symbol for love. The intoxication … Continue reading →

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