The rash on my back
has dimmed:
angry red
to demure blush.
I wish I never
had thrush
in my left nostril —
in that cramped cave
hard for the air
to get through
but the meds kept
the wolf at bay,
subdued.
Almost out of the woods
like Red Riding Hood.
The Woods
John Malone 
Well that’s an interesting take on Old Red.
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I like to be inventive 🙂
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And successful you were.
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Wow John, what disturbing images of one of my favourite colours. 🙂
eden
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sorry, Eden — if I had known …. I once did a long prose poem on red, and most of the images admittedly were negative; I’ll have to do something to redress that 🙂 that’s a project for me to work on 🙂
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John! Apology unnecessary. To feel disturbed is as valid an emotion as feeling pleasure. Your words are powerful in that way.
🙂
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thank you, Eden; that’s a lovely comment; and you’re right: if your words don’t move someone, they are impotent
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If as a poet my work doesn’t stir some form of emotion I’m wasting my time…..might as well go down the pub ….
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Don, that is a terrific comment: I think the thing we poets fear is what stand-up comedians fear: the silence at the end of a delivery ! and you don’t need to go to the pub: your poems get a reaction 🙂
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My comment about any poetry holds…..a basic requirement is the it elicits an emotion……if not it is wasted …..it just turns into a newspaper read….
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” 🔴All the better to see👀 you with ”
~ The Big, Bad, & Rash, Wolf 🐺
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I’ll pay that, David 🙂 and I get the rash joke; and I love the emojis 🙂
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yes these old men’s plights, appear o multiply with the increase of food additives
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gee, I don’t know what is is: wine, coffee or just the aging process 😦
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😂😂Thrush in the left nostril…
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can happen anywhere, Hobbo; better than the mouth 🙂 and anyway it’s under control 🙂
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hehe! 😂
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My class has been talking about red for a month and seeing and creating all of its fascinating shades. Very clever poem
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thank you, Beth; I’ve written a few poems in which Red Riding Hood makes an appearance; she’s bugging me for another spot 🙂
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she likes attention, clearly –
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If you get a poem together with the kids, Beth, I’d love to read it 🙂
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they wrote one on valentine’s day for their parents, using all of their senses, to describe what this special red day felt like. if i still have it on my computer, i’ll send it your way –
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that would be wonderful 🙂 what a gorgeous concept 🙂
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Nose thrush, what a pain. Hope he cleared out all the brush so little red wouldn’t complain.
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HaHa; yeh, on the mend; life goes on 🙂
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Like this very much even if it challenged my English to the limit. But I think it was worse for you having a bird (according to google translate) in your nose!
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good old Google ! no, it’s a discharge which when it hardens forms a partial blockage in the nostril. A bird would be much worse. A bird flew in my mouth once but that’s another poem 🙂
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Puh! I was really concerned and my imagination was running wild trying to picture a bird in a nose.😀 Looking forward to the bird in mouth poem.
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it’s an old one but it’s ready for a reprise 🙂
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I did not expect this when I saw that photo! 😂 Very clever
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Red has appeared in five of my poems; she’s an incessant bit player; she keeps begging me for roles so I fit her in whenever I can 🙂
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