Red Redux in E Minor
—-inverse
I am the red
Did you understand that
The Adam-red wind carries the deer’s stumble into a soaring flight
The red you spat out shifts and crumbles into the frantic, frozen air
I close my eyes to the unadulterated red, and I scream inside with a thunderous, nauseated pull,
Before it all breaks,
Oh my God, how achingly, chillingly beautiful, how much can this will power take
I always found that beauty wrapped in chains
Am I not the right shade to cover the plume of smoke rising, like Venus in her shell
Like a blotted out carcass sitting on the shelf
Not the symbolic deer of an objective truth of human nature, but a temporary place
I was a sidenote of design,
I made My own business of color
Gagging on the furtive monster that played an e-minor in melancholy
I paint myself in red, war paint, a redux
Streams of newly created red I am
About the Creator
Melissa Ingoldsby
I am a published author on Patheos,
I am Bexley by Resurgence Novels
The Half Paper Moon on Golden Storyline Books for Kindle.
My novella The Job and Atonement will be published this year by JMS Books
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Comments (32)
Congratulations on top story :)
So impressed by this.
It's clear why it has been chosen as the top story of the month. Truly quality content.
Congratulations on your Top Story!
Wow just simply great
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Red is my anger colour. It also colours my love, and I love how descriptive your language in this piece is.
Congratulations on your Top Story, 💖❤👍
Intense. Wow. I like that it leads back on itself. Furthers itself. Not certain if that is that the best way to explain it but yeah.. it speaks of grit and power!!
Wow, that was a story read in both directions! Amazing work, Melissa!! Congratulations on a well-deserved top story :)
Beautiful! Congratulations on Top Story!
Congrats on Top Story!🥳
Congratulations on top story.
Really nice
This is beautifully done. Wonderfully said in both directions. Congrats on the Top Story and a great entry to the challenge.
Ooo congrats on the top story! Not on here much but trying to get back into vocal and writing. So glad to see your stuff as always Melissa!
Stellar effort! Keep up the extraordinary work—congratulations!
nice story
Intresting post
Wow nice story
LOVED YOUR TOP STORY. CONGRATULATIONS
Congrats on the TS.
This is just excellent. I think this is the best one I have read yet.
Heartwrenching red!!! Congratulations on Top Story too!!!💕♥️♥️
Wow. Brilliant poem! ❤️ Well deserved top story! Congrats.