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Scarlet

August 5, 2010
By Katie_Grey DIAMOND, Leipsic, Ohio
Katie_Grey DIAMOND, Leipsic, Ohio
58 articles 10 photos 46 comments

Favorite Quote:
Difficult is not impossible - Relient K, "Hope for Every Fallen Man"


If all I had was love, would I still be lovely?
If all I gave was love, would you give up on me?
-House of Heroes, "Love is for the Middle Class"


Lead me away, Scarlet
Into the ocean blue
Lead me away, Scarlet
You, who I hardly knew

The sanctity of your soft deep silk that brought me
to my strife
Shows of no use while these tears of mine sink into your flesh.
Should I have seen the hurt, the pain
which brought me to my knees beneath the whip?
Should I have known your beauty-mysterious as a rose-
meant only blood,
Should I have known?

Lead me away, Scarlet
Into the ocean blue
Lead me away, Scarlet
You, who I hardly knew

The beauty of your thick, rich color that brought me
to this land
Shows of no use while my hands blister in the heat.
Should I have seen the evil, the pride
which brought me to my anger on this ship?
Should I have known your lure-mysterious as a rose-
meant only loss,
Should I have known?

Lead me away, Scarley
Into the ocean blue
Lead me away, Scarlet
You, who I hardly knew

The author's comments:
Class project. I had to write a poem off of a picture out of a children's book. A young African girl was lured onto a slave ship with fine cloth.

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on Sep. 19 2010 at 6:41 pm
collegegirladventures GOLD, Mequon, Wisconsin
10 articles 8 photos 307 comments

Favorite Quote:
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

~Salman Rushdie

What a powerful message behind this poem!! I really like it.

uhilu25 BRONZE said...
on Sep. 9 2010 at 3:32 pm
uhilu25 BRONZE, Austin, Texas
3 articles 3 photos 22 comments

Favorite Quote:
i am not bound to win,but i am bound to be true.i am not bound to succeed,but bound to live up to what light i have. -abraham lincon

i love this:) keep writing!!!!!! read my stuff?