Poetry’s Rainbow
When darkness arrives
Bright colors are discovered
In poetic verse
Copyright SGW 2008
For the prompt at One Single Impression: Color.
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Choosing the road less traveled; now where the hell am I?!
My Poems
- A Blogger
- A Cinquain
- A Fucking Poem
- A Mountainside Field In Maine
- Ablaze
- Accumulation
- Adrift
- Albatross
- All Good Things
- Altered
- Ambiguous
- An Ode To Sarah Palin
- Angel
- Another Cinquain
- Anxiety Attack
- Around Each Other
- Asleep
- Atlantic
- Barack
- Battles
- Below Surface
- Bennies
- Between The Rhyme
- Black Hole/Faith
- Black Swan
- Blanket
- Blanket
- Boardwalks To Walk No More
- Bobby
- Boo
- Book Covers
- Bounty of Cancer
- Brass Stand
- Breaking Of Dawn
- Broken
- Brushstrokes
- Bush's Mess
- Bush/Cheney
- Butt Why
- Cancer
- Carrousel
- Cell Out
- Chasing Rainbows
- Circling The Drain
- Cleanse
- Cliche Poet Voice
- Closer Look
- Coffee Ice Cream
- Contemplation
- Cords
- Corporatocracy
- Counsel
- Country 'Tis Of Thee
- Creation
- Criminally Right
- Cry Rain
- Cry Tears
- Damn, It's God
- Dandelions
- Dead Or Alive
- Dear John
- Demagoguery
- Demise
- Designer Dogs And Their Looney People
- Different Words
- Discomfort
- Diversionary Tactic
- Dream Dance
- Dreaming Of Mr. Rogers
- Dreams
- Dry
- Dubya
- Eat
- Ends
- Ephemeral
- Escape From Newark
- Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
- Evil's Triangle
- False Portrayals
- Fanatics
- Fear And Hate Is Jesusland
- Fear Or Pleasure
- Feline
- Festivus
- Fill In The Blank
- Flexible Thinking
- Fool
- Freedom and Justice
- Fresh
- Fresh
- Frida
- Fuller View
- Further From Heaven
- Games Of Toss
- Gardot
- George Bush Is An Asshole
- Georgie's Dick
- Ghost
- Girl With A Pearl Earring
- Glances
- Gone
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- Guarantee
- Hall of Mirrors
- Honeysuckle
- I'm An Accountant
- If A Promise
- In The Arms Of
- Incitement
- Incongruous
- Insanity
- Jackson
- Jersey Shore
- Jerusalem
- Killer Cows From Kansas City
- Kisses Wishes
- Labor Pains
- Lakeside
- Layers
- Lazy Summer
- LeBron Can Suck It
- Legacy
- Lies Behind The Smirk
- Life Is Still There
- Life Of A Leaf
- Light In The Tunnel
- Little Boy
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- Lost
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- Loved Ones
- Making Love
- Man On The Can
- Maniacal Masses
- Mark Levin Popped A Blood Vessel
- Memorial (Every) Day
- Meow
- Mind The Eagle
- Mirage
- Mirror Talk
- Moments
- Mommy's Song
- Monsters
- Muffler
- Music
- My Father's Son
- My Poem
- Nameless
- Native
- Neda
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- Nightwalker (Wolf)
- Nothing
- Nothing Gets Better
- Now This Is Writer's Block
- Oasis
- Of The Waterfall
- Old Friend
- On The Twelfth
- Opposite Effect
- Ostriches
- Outside In
- Pacific Standard Time
- Paralysis
- Passion To Hate
- Pavilion's Thought
- Penned
- Places I'm Going
- Pocono Mountain Morning
- Poetry's Rainbow
- Pointless Pretending
- Prevention
- Puget Sound Orcas
- Quick Burning Candle
- Quit
- RSVP
- Raining Words
- Red Molly
- Remembrance
- Republicans
- Revelation
- River
- Rockies
- Role Model
- Round Pegs
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- Sculptured Garden
- September 11
- Settings
- Seuss Love
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- Shadows
- She Is All That
- She Said No (Rape)
- Shepherd
- Silence
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- Small Part
- Someone
- Soothing
- State Of The Union
- Stirred
- Storms
- Storyteller
- Streets
- Take Out The Trash (Or George Bush's Term Ends)
- Tea
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- Tears
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- The Black And White Cookie
- The Bush Doctrine
- The Hope And The Glory
- The Hours
- The Next
- The Rain
- The Way The Mind Of A Right Wingnut “Thinks” However Many Facts Call Into Question Every Untruth They Attempt To Mindlessly Spread
- The Winter Of Our Discontent
- Three Thousand (Dedicated to George W. Bush)
- Time Running
- Timshel (East Of Eden)
- To Be Continued
- Tree Pollen
- Trek
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- Tumult
- Twisted
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- Two A.M. Hairball
- Unfurled
- Vase
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- Violet
- WHITE House
- Wandering
- War On Christmas
- Watching
- We Are The Enemy
- Where
- Whirl
- Whole
- Wind
- Wind Bag
- Winds Of Change
- Winds, Storms, Water
- Winter
- Winter's Sky
- World Stripped Away
- Write A Poem
- You
- da Costa
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- Fools' Day
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- Patterns
- Q Is For Crazy
- Racists' Different Names
- Random Kenya
- Resilience
- Right Wing
- Sally's Voice
- Squirrel
- The Girl With M.S.
- The Haagen Dazs Coffee Ice Cream Poem
- Theorize
- This Is Not America
- Trump
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- Star Wars Episode Three (Movie)
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- Vote For Change Final Concert (Music)
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19 comments:
The work of the poet is often done in the absence of light and color. Well done, this. And... I love your byline.
I'm glad quiet paths pointed out your by-line. Perfect question.
I think this is a lovely poem. I like the idea of poetry as a rainbow lighting the dark.
Wonderfully said. It makes so much sense.
I love it, Scott. Creativity is the way out of darkness--and so often the road less traveled. Thanks.
Writing in Faith: Poems
This is so true! When I am stressed, I often turn to the written word to dispell the darkness.
I love the placidity of haiku
its form especially soothes
this one is very good!
I'm new to poem writing. I have tried haiku but it doesn't turn out well most of the time, unlike what you have here. You expressed it well when it is often hard to come up with a meaningful verse in 3 short lines.
In the darkness of sorrow and difficult circumstances, the heart may utter forth true, bittersweet beauty.
Oh, very nice - very nice!
"When darkness arrives
Bright colors are discovered
In poetic verse".. i'd said somethin' like that to a blind man."if u don't get to shut-up i'll
drive the poetry out of u" was his quick reply.took it quite literally it seems.well,well,needs some practice walkin' down "the road less traveled" i thought.that said,musn't neglect my own practice ,bye for now..
It would seem someone is off their meds.
I love the title as much as the poem itself.
1 ANSWERABLE:
1 Who was the joke on>oh!thanks for comprehending it was a joke sir!the joke wasn't on blindness or the blind.
2then who was it on>Oh no sir, against no particular person.just musings 'bout poetry not
being literal and the impersonal nature of the poetic voice.
3is that ur voice>no sir.but u could say the joke was on me.
4why didn't u praise the poem>i do at times i misunderstand that the obvious has been
understood .
5produce ur poetic license>what is that sir!
Oy veh.
I for one, have found rainbows in my work. Thanks for this.
spoken with an understanding beyond black letters written in silence... yessss
i often find that the darker the hour the brighter the poetry.....
Absolutely, Jodi. And the beauty of it is that the brightness that leaps from the page often is the light that keeps us from getting lost in the darkness.
poetry, a refuge of color.
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