Red rooster in your gray coop,
O stately creature with tail-feathers red and blue,
Yellow and black,
You have a comb gay as a parade
On your head:
You have pearl trinkets
On your feet:
The short feathers smooth along your back
Are the dark color of wet rocks,
Or the rippled green of ships
When I look at their sides through water.
I don't know how you happened to be made
So proud, so foolish,
Wearing your coat of many colors,
Shouting all day long your crooked words,
Loud . . . sharp . . . not beautiful!
Red Rooster
Hilda Conkling
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Poem topics: beautiful, dark, green, water, head, blue, long, pearl, foolish, sharp, black, creature, short, color, yellow, Valentine's Day, red, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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