Inside: Creative and Well-Written Orange Poems.
Orange is the color of ripe oranges, pumpkins, and autumn leaves. It’s also associated with happiness, creativity, and vitality. It’s the perfect hue to add a little bit of spice to any color palette.
These 13 creative poems use the color orange in a variety of ways, celebrating its beauty and power. You will notice that orange is used as both a noun and an adjective, giving these poems an extra bit of flavor.
If you’re looking for a way to add brightness to your day, why not read through these poems and enjoy the color orange in all its glory?
Maybe it’s your favorite color, or maybe you’re just looking for a way to get inspired by it. Either way, these poems are sure to please!
Creative Orange Poems
The simple and straightforward titles of these poems say it all. Some of the orange poems here can be read to children at bedtime and some can be used as inspiration for your own writing.
1. Oranges
I peeled my orange
That was so bright against
The gray of December
That, from some distance,
Someone might have thought
I was making a fire in my hands.
—Gary Soto
2. The Oranges
At lunchtime, I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.
And that orange, it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park.
This is peace and contentment. It’s new.
—Wendy Cope
The orange of the flower,
And of sherbet.
I like both oranges.
They are pretty and tasty.
The orange comes after red.
It comes before yellow.
If you look up in the rainbow sky.
You will see it up high.
I like orange you see.
It is a color that suits me.
It is a color of the flames.
It has many, many names.
—Vera Sidhwa
Orange is for a fruit
colour of baywatch swimsuits
It’s a cousin to yellow and gold
it makes a statement bold.
it stands for hope, vitality
cheer and also energy
it’s for pumpkin, carrot also
used to denote measures of safety
—.Pd. is here
5. Oranges
A drift of white blossoms
from the orange tree
will settle in my hair
and I’ll know.
This is how I will choose you:
by feeling you
smelling you,
by slipping you into my coat.
Maybe then I’ll climb
the hill, look down
on the town we live in
with sunlight on my face
and a miniature sun
burning a hole in my pocket.
Thirsty, I’ll suck the juice
from it. From you.
—Roisin Kelly
Captivating Orange Poems
See how these writers use the color orange in their pieces? They’re extremely creative, imaginative, and full of imagery. Orange lovers, be ready to swoon. Aspiring poets, take a lesson or two.
6. Orange Flowers Of Flowing Circuitry
Dance my beloveds, dance for a new day is with you now.
When the sun of the old has set,
Dance with joy and bliss charged love,
Upon the ocean of unity and raging rivers of laughter.
For sovereign you are,
Like the lion’s roar,
And truth will out,
Let freedom Ring.
—Pamela Storch
7. Wild Oranges
Still with awed inner sight I see that tree
Bending beneath its secret flower and fruit
In the wild lonely marsh-land, strange to see
As enchanted tree of fairy root.
Forever shall the small bright orange burn
Unplucked upon the bough, the bloom unbroken
Be loud with the bees, forever these return
To grieve me like a lovely word unspoken.
Til I go back for bitter sorrow’s sake
And touch the shining bloom and taste the wine
Of the wild acid orange, and so make
Part of its strict and lonely meaning mine.
—Marjorie Meeker
Orange replies: I’m drunk from my last bar-binge
Half-rhymes like hangovers suddenly impinge.
But nothing rhymes in English with an orange.
While my wife in French eats one in her nude linge
Playwrights Synge and Inge flap forward on a car-hinge.
It stands alone, and seems to make a star cringe.
Pronounce it orange and then expunge.
So ends the story of the very violet orange.
Nothing rhymes in English with an orange.
It stands alone, and seems to make a star cringe.
—David Shapiro
Because today our hands unravel a perfect orange
we each left our homes
drank ripening light before boarding
put our hands together into red soil
we each left home
to place new juice in our mouths
put our hands together into red soil
kept our eyes open for tiny seeds
unfamiliar juice in our mouths
each season we unlatched door
eyes open for tiny seeds signaling first growth
kept away wilder foraging creatures
—Ching-in Chen
Deep Orange Poems
Have you ever thought that even the word orange can be profound, or the meaning of it so varied? Let’s take a deep dive into reading these thought-provoking poems.
10. The Orange Alert
That morning, radios warned of orange.
Neighborhood kids watched officers climb in
and out an open manhole,
consulting the entrails of the great dead millipede.
We watched the ground;
the sun hotter than all year.
The mountains hid Santa Anas,
the smog went orange with dusk, the growing shadows
of lingering birds.
—Douglas Kearney
11. Mock Orange
In my mind tonight
I hear the question and pursuing answer
fused in one sound
that mounts and mounts and then
is split into the old selves,
the tired antagonisms. Do you see?
We were made fools of.
And the scent of mock orange drifts through the window.
—Louise Glück
The clear orange bottle was empty.
It had been empty a day.
It suddenly seemed so costly
and uncalled for anyway.
Two years had passed.
They had passed more or less the way years should.
Maybe he’d changed. Or maybe
the doctors had misunderstood.
—Joshua Mehigan
13. Orange Blood
The streets of San Francisco
are littered with bodies
of bank robbers & mobsters
prostitutes & pimps
Bullet holes in foreheads
Clothes covered with that fake orange blood
they used in the seventies
Just pretend dead
No sirens (those will be dubbed in later)
—David Trinidad
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