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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RED ROOSTER, by HILDA CONKLING Poet's Biography
First Line: Red rooster in your gray coop
Last Line: Loud . . . Sharp . . . Not beautiful!
First Line: Red rooster in your gray coop
Last Line: Loud . . . Sharp . . . Not beautiful!
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!
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