Red All Over
Red All Over
Why is it we don’t sing
the reds of spring?
The coral carmine nipples
that lip each/every twig,
the rust pink kisses puckering
grey limbs, the mountainside’s tipped
blush?
April in the Catskills–
(Who knew?)
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Here’s a kind of silly poem for I don’t know whom– it is gloriously red up here in upstate New York – every deciduous tree you can see (practically) tipped with a deep pinkish red. Hard to photograph but pretty cool, pretty pretty.
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ManicDDaily 
April 29, 2013 at 10:39 pm
Such an unexpected color in Spring–a forerunner of summer where we expect it, but much more eye-catching and even a bit astonishing to see it now. Here a lot of broadleaf evergreen shrubs make those new bursts of red leaves, japanese maples in burgundy, and barberry deep maroon…your poem is like coming around the corner to an unexpected vista where you thought there would be a wall.
April 29, 2013 at 10:40 pm
pink kisses…very cool….they look beautiful…
April 30, 2013 at 3:06 am
Lovely imagery. Yes, I’ve seen that sort of thing too in NY.
April 30, 2013 at 5:10 am
Good question, lovely post.
April 30, 2013 at 5:24 am
hey i will sing of nipples on trees….smiles…the first budding of spring…reds are def a bit bold usually for spring, of pastels and greens….
April 30, 2013 at 8:36 am
Really love the opening two lines. So often is all about the blushes, the pastels. 😀
April 30, 2013 at 9:08 am
Yes, I got a bit strident – but it really is a deep red here – almost as red (though different) than autumn. k.
April 30, 2013 at 9:29 am
That’s the point, I think. I hue different yet sister to autumn’s red, perhaps cousin. How does it differ? I like all the windows your question opens.
April 30, 2013 at 9:34 am
That’s interesting. You are right we are so glad to see the greens of spring that we are entirely colour blind about the reds!
April 30, 2013 at 1:26 pm
can’t help but think of all the/our hidden passions when the reds and pinks fling about like this. I love the soft, sudden sensuality of this.