#color poetry

[betweenthetimeandsound]

Scarlet Red

--prompt from my own, "bright red". Also inspired by "Roşu aprins" by Luna amara

I color my lips until they blaze a scarlet red, blowing a kiss, but unraveling a thread.

I bite on my flesh, with teeth white as the moon. Waiting, I watch as a bird slips into a cloud and vanishes in the rain, waiting to fall.

All has gone gray; despite the mist clearing up the gunk in my eyes, I forgot what purple was.

But I do remember that scarlet, that bright red...

Red, not of fires nor of alarms. Red, not of burning coals nor of rancid blood.

No--it's the red of a comforting sunset, a moment of bliss before the darkness falls. It's the red of a rose blooming amongst ashes, feeding itself with broken sunlight and a steady rain. --Elda Mengisto

#poetry #my poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #bright red #red #color poetry #resilience #beauty #poeticstories #writerscreed #twcpoetry

[logophile-18]

The Color Poems masterlist!

Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Blue

Purple

Pink

#idk. #my writing #poems and poetry #original poem #my poem #poem #poetry #color poetry #colors

[mademoisellefantasy]

I answered.

Who wouldn't choose pink? When it is the color of blushing cheeks and pouty lips, kittens' paws and little girls' clothes, rose bouquets and exotic flowers, amethysts and crystals, childhood toys and flamingo birds?

Why not pink? When it is all that is soft and pastel and youthful, even one's made hard and dark and old by all the world's colors? Or when it is all that is bright and flamboyant and creative, even when we're all made sad and repressed and uninspired by all the world's colors?

Sure, blue is the sky, red is the blood, yellow the sun, green the grass, but pink...

Pink is human, so entirely human...

~ mademoiselle fantasy

#quote #my quote #my thoughts #pink supremacy #color poetry #poems and quotes #light academia #prompt #writers of tumblr #my writing #original writing #creative writing #poets and writers #mademoisellefantasy

[thatsimplepoet]

color poem: black

i’d never noticed the way

that your eyes held 

an entire universe

until you professed your love 

as i looked up

at the pitch black sky

and while i noticed the endlessness void 

that surrounded us

i finally understood

the rarity of our love

 because i now know

that a divine being

has bestowed upon me

the glorious opportunity

of existing at the same time

as you

and to ensure

that our story

never fades to black

i will fall to my knees

and declared my utter devotion

to our love-

our mutual masterpiece

-ree

#my poem #my poetry #love poem #love poetry #color poem #color poetry #lgbtq poem #lgbtq poetry

[firstfullmoon]

Anis Mojgani, “To the Sea”

#a beautiful softness of being human trying to show someone else the color of all our threads #the specific sweetness that is the water of your voice #w #poetry #anis mojgani #the earth was made for lovers

[teachyouhowtodothesponge]

Still doodling this drama bug! ✨✨

Extras:

#Love this poetry nerd! #He wont leave my head! #Dont look too close at the colored doodled its a wee bit messy #welcome home #welcome home arg #my art #doodles #latter pillar #Uncle Adieu #howdy pillar #sally starlet #welcome home latter #welcome home adieu #welcome home howdy #welcome home sally

[canisalbus]

That is absolutely WILD that you mentioned pomegranates!! goodness gracious I don't know if you have already you need to watch Sergei parajanovs 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates (it's on yt). Not only is it stellar but it is really aesthetically similar to your work and guess what? You could see a little machete vasco, as one of the themes is young love being choked out through separation because the main character Sayat Nova leaves for a secluded monastery!!

I love The Color of Pomegranates! It's been one of my favorite films for years, it's so hypnotic, textured and visually rich, I always come back from it feeling nourished. If my work manages to remind you of it even in some minute way I'm beyond happy.

#I love you surrealism #I love you religious imagery #I love you donkeys and chickens and sheep #I love you poetry art history passion love violence and death #I love you evocative use of the color red #answered #phodicae #it's indeed on youtube at the moment! with subtitles (even though there's very little dialoque)

[gunbf]

YOUR FATHER / MY FATHER by Mal Fawzy

#writing #poetry #web weaving #poets of color #mal fawzy

[fuckingwhateverdude]

hard truths

#why have i not done colored text before this fucks on a different level to me #but also yeah needed to get that out of my soul #my writing #my writing tag #poetry #original poem #mental illness #spilled ink #loneliness #lonely #unrequited love #unlovable #isolation #social isolation #on love #self destruction

[kittybricks]

Do You Love the Colour of the Sky? (Or: This Must be the Place)

(I apologize for the resolution in advance. Still troubleshooting.)

#spec fic #speculative fiction #heritage post #do you love the color of the sky #art #ocs #original story #short story #arg #original arg #Tumblr arg #prose #scifi #science fiction #meme #shitposts #shitposting #hellsite #poets on tumblr #poetry #god let this get notes I've had the idea for so long and I need someone to appreciate it

[betweenthetimeandsound]

Renounce/Remorse

--prompt from @nosebleedclub "vermillion" (15 July)

Vermillion lips hold a thousand truths, but one lie is enough to reveal the toxins I kept for myself, melding with my skins. Inside my mouth I hold a morsel of strawberry rhubarb candy, but I cut the wrong shard and taste the poison which makes my lips tremble out of impulse.

I rashly tell myself this ruby means less compared to what you entrusted to me with your life-- all your intimate grazes and slights of hand holding extinguished sparks from fireworks exploded too early. The smell of sulfur clouds my nose and my judgement--the colors disintegrate as absolution renounces me and you bless me with its ashes.

#poetry #my poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #vermillion #confession #red #color poetry #writeblr #fallout #secrets

[geryone]

Have You Been Long Enough At Table, Leslie Sainz

#quotes #poetry #quote #poem #Leslie Sainz #id in alt text #sees a reference to the color red & thinks of Geryon immediately

[oldbookshop]

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" – Robert Frost

(Thanks to @cryptic-queer-cryptid and @cynassa for the brainstorming help!)

#good omens #good omens gifs #crowley #aziraphale #good omens season 1 #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #ineffable divorce #aziracrow #robert frost #poetry #nothing gold can stay #ineffable lovers #ineffable spouses #gold is the color of crowley's eyes

[thatsimplepoet]

color poem: blue

blue is the color of our love

you whisper to me

as i settle on our bed

your words bring forth memories of

a first kiss in the bluest of oceans

and star-gazing under the midnight sky

i want to argue that blue is often

synonymous with sadness

but instead 

my voice fails me

every moment that i have loved you

reminds me of the color blue

and i cannot help but agree 

wholeheartedly

blue is the color of our love

i whisper as you gently drag 

a paintbrush dipped in blue paint 

across the plains of my back

my body is but a canvas-

a vehicle that tells the story

of the love it has been gifted by you

-ree

#my poem #my poetry #love poem #love poetry #color poem #color poetry #lgbtq poem #lgbtq poetry #wlw poem #wlw poetry #wlw #wlw yearning #wlw thoughts #sapphic poem #sapphic poetry #sapphic thoughts #sapphic yearning

[userjoel]

light is my heart since the day we were plighted; red is my cheek that they told me was blighted; the green of the trees looks far greener than ever, and the linnets are singing, true lovers don’t sever.

— from the welcome by thomas osborne davis, via:

#the last of us #tlouhboedit #hbotlou #tvedit #bill x frank #tlounetwork #tloudaily #murray bartlett #nick offerman #userallisyn #userconstance #* #tlou spoilers #*poetry #long post #this one's a hot mess express i apologize in advance #the blending? atrocious #the scene selection? wtf #the coloring? laughable !

[typewriter-worries]

acknowledgments, Danez Smith

[ Text ID: and how many times have you loved me without my asking? / how often have i loved a thing because you loved it? / including me. ] 

#danez smith #my upload #dark academia #classic academia #light academia #black academia #cottage academia #poetry #lgbt poetry #poets of color #black poetry