A poem written on the subject of the color red. It was prompt #21. Ninety-six to go! Red has 44 synonyms on dictionary.com; the poem has 44 lines. I made a line inspired by each synonym.

Mama digs deep into ground; I watch and hope you don’t perish
Roll Tide!
Potato
Color of hair contributed to modern genome by Neanderthals, according to National Geographic
Purchased to get back into her graces
Hue ranging from moderate to deep
Representing love
Blood and vampires
Cooked and cold on bagel with cream cheese
Alcohol
Obsolete, abounding in or consisting of flowers
like my right eye always fighting conjunctivitis
Conform, lest you incite a hate crime, for which society will too often blame the victim
Bruises on the battered woman which everyone notices, but dares not inquire for fear of recrimination
Equipment used by bats and military men on the hunt
960,000 hits of Google image search
Color of menses at beginning
Only pair of warm pants I own sans holes
Overwhelmed by too much as a toddler; now I avoid
Ugly marks on spoiling metal
Just a bit
Birds and Arizona professional football squad
Slight, tinge
Indicative of winter’s chill
Into toilet, often in streaks
Pennies and jewelry, the second only if you maintain high bank balance
Also this body
Mixture often ugly
Birthstone of both new year’s child and MLK Day babies
Closest nature gets to neon
ike a pomegranate is you bite big and swallow both skin and fruit in one mouthful
Hated by the Golden Girl’s Blanche
Murdered actress, case unsolved
Mostly brown
Good humor, like the ice cream
Sometimes post sex
Heat of adoration unrequited
Rude men refer to it’s popping, using fact to stake claim to woman and girls who no longer want them.
Indicative of winter’s chill
Immobile life form being killed by human caused climate change
My knee for months, after a fall that proved to be anything but simple
Frankly my dear…
Shade makes me long for alma mater
Of flesh, sunburned or Irish
Freshness, vigor

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  • Steven West on Nov 4, 2009

    Weird compilation of random thoughts.

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