Scarlet's Sky Roses

• Martin Campbell, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2008

Horizon painted with scarlet haze,
Crimson petals echoing its colour,
A voice lost in twilight’s shadow,
Blood red into heaven’s creation,
Into earth’s risen angels,
Caressed by wind’s fingers,
Lifted by the clouds,
Blooming into brilliant colour,
Bleeding into the sky’s fading light.

Soil cast through hand's tender,
Colour thrown through sky's light,
Water poured onto petals young,
Rain pouring through sky's silhouette,
Petals falling through sky's blood shed,

Wilting art born in sky's garden.