National Poetry Month: 19

April is National Poetry Month. Writer’s Digest has a Poem A Day challenge, which I’m going to participate in. A few of those poems will end up here. Check out the link if you want to try the challenge, too.

The challenge for the nineteenth is to write a poem with a color as its title.

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Carnelian

An earthy blanket of rich chestnut mulch

neatly bound

by a ring of eggshell and gray-dappled limestone blocks

under a robin’s egg sky

Sun warmed and drowsing

glossy emerald leaves stretch out and up

toward that pale blue sky and inescapable light

anchored by thick gray-brown stems shading to

verdant hues

At the ends

red-tinged new budding curls of foliage

emerge

crowned by bright jewels

proudly lifted to entice passing bees

bright bold petal ruffles flushed carnelian

releasing sweet whispers

on the wind