POETRY SUNDAY: EXPRESSING COLORS IN POEMS

I being a favorite of colors came about a very quaint poem expressing poetry in red. It is a very short verse I found amusing and most intelectual. What else I thought is quite suitable for color than in poetry.

WHY POETRY IS RED
Written by Russell H. Strauss

Poems sweeten our bread and butter
Like strawberry jam.
Their words are metrical match flames;
yet, softly spoken, they become
fire engines to quench disquietude.
Poems are red prom carnations

pressed between the pages of prose.
They are copper pennies in a mind's pocket
or Santa suits that dress imagination
in the velvet of sound. The kiss of verse
leaves lipstick traces on the soul.
Poetry bleeds.

SNAP!

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Russell Strauss is a poet which has served as President of the Poetry Society of Tennessee many years. He is an admirable lover of words and poems.