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
Under 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
Whitish 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
A 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
Screen 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
I 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
A 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
Dust
...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
- 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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