Here is a collection of poems to take with you as you head off into the long 4th of July weekend, courtesy of Poets.org. Bring one of each color to your family bbq and give your family a real treat. Or, just take William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow.” With the wheelbarrow, the (blue) water, and the white chickens, you’re pretty much covered.
Red
The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams
A Red Palm
by Gary Soto
A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
Red Lilies
by Barbara Guest
Red Slippers
by Amy Lowell
The Red Poppy
by Louise Glück
Red Poppy
by Tess Gallagher
will the red hand throw me?
by Matthew Rohrer
Red Cloth
by Jean Valentine
Red Quiet, Section 3
by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
White
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
by Anne Sexton
The White Fires of Venus
by Denis Johnson
The White Room
by Charles Simic
White
by J. Michael Martinez
White Box (Notes)
by Laura Mullen
White Clover
by Marvin Bell
my dream about being white
by Lucille Clifton
The White Horse
by D.H. Lawrence
White Spring
by Lisa Olstein
White Apples
by Donald Hall
Blue
Blues
by Elizabeth Alexander
Waking in the Blue
by Robert Lowell
Immigrant Blues
by Li-Young Lee
At the Blue Note
by Pablo Medina
The Weary Blues
by Langston Hughes
The Blue Terrance
by Terrance Hayes
The Blue Stairs
by Barbara Guest
The Blue Anchor
by Jane Cooper
The Blue
by David Baker
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window
by Ernesto Cardenal
translated by Jonathan Cohen
Source: Poets.org
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