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Ash Gray Poems - Poems about Ash Gray

A Version of a Woman in Time

...Cruelty wears a crown in a cloaked place,
cold-blooded grins behind mirrored faces.
Remorse walks the halls bartering tattle while I fracture.

They crowned me in shame, but 
within a queen stil...
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Categories: ash gray, inspirational, spiritual, strength, woman,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberUnder the heavy and ash-gray wing of the evening

...Under the heavy and ash-gray wing of the evening,
In the melancholic waltz of memories awakened in rains,
Through the night stretching its hand like an old bell-ringer,
Ringing the bell of departu...
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Categories: ash gray, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Intruding Storm

...scarlet moments
in late evening
turns
ash gray
as
temperamental 
winds gather,
display,
placing themselves
in concentration,
obnoxious
and overbearing
in nature,
intruding,
fully challe...
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Categories: ash gray, sky,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhitish Sun's Glint

...Thru cracks in the clouds
    whitish sun glints
  No warmth issues forth
    barren rock without flint

  Clouds return ash-gray
    no matter I squint
  despondent sun keeps away
    done, ...
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Categories: ash gray, farewell, sky, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Feast For Ravens

...Once, there was a time when I wallowed in darkness
wading in the shallows of my flaws, I confess.
Shadows of hovering ravens were my only friends.
I was lost in time as stars died, but ...
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Categories: ash gray, death,
Form: Rhyme



Torch Lake - Pirate Ship In the Last Lightt

...As August day darkens with sunset

There are always those
Who cannot let go of the summer

The sail of the boat on Torch Lake
First a yellow flame
To the match of last sunray

Now
With the ...
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Categories: ash gray, august, boat, change, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Burning: a Dream In Madness

...Burning snow falls quietly on
cold rusted wire and brittle bone.
An ancient creature looks to the horizon 
feeling is body built of razor wire and old bones, cold,
a delicate tone transmits from ...
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Categories: ash gray, abortion, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberScreen Star Fade

...The beauty fades, fades, fades away

   Treatments, surgery, balms, Beaujolais

Only delay ever-creeping decay

   The face now ash gray ~ vanished her day





                July 26, 2...
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Categories: ash gray, beauty, betrayal, drink, loss,
Form: Monorhyme

No Happy Why

...

A nice, curious white woman
asked Georgie me why
me no happy ta-day

I wore me nine-year-old frown
monkey-bar yea high
Lil’ black children grow up dat way

Me answer ta her,
was a...
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Categories: ash gray, allusion, self, wisdom, word
Form: Tristich

Premium MemberI Saw Hurt Speak So Loud

...I Saw Hurt Speak So Loud


I saw hurt speak so loud,
as you stood weak but proud.
Your sad eyes told me more,
red stains on your front door.

I sought to touch your soul,
stop the loss and i...
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Categories: ash gray, appreciation, art, desire, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Infusion

...Every season         I think is my favorite
until autumn      comes painting the trees
oh Autumn you are such delight
carpeting forests with colored leaves

Oh clouds who         the sun do hide...
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Categories: ash gray, autumn, change, creation, paradise,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Slow Storm

...A Slow Storm

Ash gray clouds rest above the large white home.
All those within have sweaty palms and feet.
A slight wind blew when they stepped out to roam,
and now they must take care in w...
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Categories: ash gray, satire, storm,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberDust

...DUST

Dust falls like snow, so cold
Sneaks its secrets under beds
Dyes old men and old lady heads
Covers long ago legends and lore

Dust in her eyes, behind pennies
Dust below his grieving fe...
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Categories: ash gray, death, grief, life,
Form: Free verse

And So I Thaw

...Lost. Numb.
Empty.
Wandering aimlessly....

Lifting my eyes I see
A vast, parched, dead land,
And an ash gray sky.

Stopping, I hear
The howling wind, whistling a
Hollow, distant sound.

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Categories: ash gray, cry, emotions, for him,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member- Nature's Psalms - 1

...Is Beethoven's ensemble fairer than nature's psalms?
Amidst a crowning sun: ears and eyes are drugged,
drenched with tender notes, orchestrated by greens,
inhale deep, the aromatic blosso...
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Categories: ash gray, beautiful, bird, drug, imagery,
Form: Ekphrasis

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