Once there was a festival of Red,
To which there came
The reds of all the earth and skies..........
The perfumed redness of a soft rosebud,
The mystic redness of a funeral flame,
And the sad redness of the rabbit’s eye,
The redness of a sunset colored peak,
The live sweet redness of a baby’s cheek,
The hard rich redness of a parrot’s beak,
The redness of a warm fruit within a wood,
The redness in the eyeballs of a dove,
The lonely redness of a heart in love.
But when the festival of red began,
Outside a raving outcast, redness stood.
It was the redness of the rage of man!
-UNKNOWN!
Note: This was my favorite peom as a child! Finally found it and would like to share it with ‘yall’!
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