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There is a crimson heart, fragile, rapt
in ribbons of warm velvet devotion;
it pumps and flows,
this vessel of rich red darkness,
steeped by experience and translucent scars
etched and carved by the throes of life.
There is a red hot anger that spatters and soaks you -
but for a moment -
then runs smooth and deep
scarlet as it soothes and cloaks you
and keeps you warm.
There is a woman, your crazy love
with the breakable heart;
listen to her
before
the bleeding
stops.
image credit: sum1good
beautiful poem and I love the image too, it looks great as a banner for your blog!
Thanks, Diana. I changed my blog’s theme yesterday, a theme which allows me to showcase individual featured images as each post’s header photo, or banner, if I so desire. It’s a pretty cool feature.
that’s awesome, so each post retains its banner?
Not automatically. You have to set a picture as the featured image on the Edit Post page (lower right hand corner). I don’t know how many themes support this, but my old one didn’t.
If you don’t set the featured image, it defaults to whatever your original header photo is.
I will check it out to see if my theme has this feature!
The red caught my eye. I have a love-distrust relationship with the colour red. I always wear it when I want to cheer myself up as it signifies warmth and positive action; yet it also means anger, destructive fire, and war.
You have described these contrasts well in this poem.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you so much! Yes, I agree, red is a powerful and inspiring colour that can trigger many possibilities in writing. Yesterday it made me think of love/passion/anger/heart/blood, so I ran with it.