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Best Achromatic Poems

Below are the all-time best Achromatic poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of achromatic poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member In the Bed They Make
And when will the tides turn against confident indifference?!

When will humanity cease
To throw cats against curiosity’s silver coated dagger

Another played out song
Another dramatic lyric
Shifting embellished...

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Categories: achromatic, life, psychological, slam,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Follow Me
When streams of paper roses,
bleed bitter fragrances,
evil mists of leaves slowly fall,
drifting along autumnal 
breeze of yesterdays.

And i question
unseen dirt trapped
between sharpened thorns:
what if the...

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Categories: achromatic, dark, deep, feelings, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why Bother
The clock chastises me,
as painted petals bloom brilliance
in illuminated wonder that attempts 
escape from the hidden crevices
deep within my beleaguered mind.

The beauty I seek is...

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Categories: achromatic, how i feel, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Yourself and No One Else
If you lived to tell a lie  about your true identity then you never lived at all. 
Emotionally in the inside you might break...

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Categories: achromatic, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Lighthouse
Mute
but immutable.
Unmoving, unmoveable;
timeless, yet tireless.
Solitary stalwart sentinel
surveils undulating horizon.

Aberrant, achromatic clouds
pock-mark the skies, as distant
rumblings herald his adversary's
latest gambit in their age-old conflict.

The wrath of...

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Categories: achromatic, light, metaphor, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Whispers of the Stranded Soul
Written: June 24, 2023
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Sadness erupts; who is suffering sails?
In the depths where hope once dwelled.
A vessel that was gone, love's dying exhale
Lost by the cruel...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: achromatic, allegory, angst, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Home of the Brave
An achromatic statue of a Union bugler
soldier stands high above
a tiny municipal park
where class Aves defecate daily
on his stone-cold cap and shoulders.
Monday and many more...

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Categories: achromatic, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Micro-Feasting
Micro-Feasting
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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: achromatic, language,
Form: Prose Poetry
The White Devil's Pride
Bearing a European polymorphism, I should be branded by shame.

I am the White Devil as they claim.

The Ciakara, a bipedal reptilian that fades in and...

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Categories: achromatic, america, color, discrimination, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Monochrome Echo Chamber
"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"




How many Roads
to "IT"
Black 
as Black & White? 
or Unicorns and Rainbows?

Unitarian 1 and only 1 
Trinitarian 3 exist in 1 
An...

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Categories: achromatic, color, dark, humanity, i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Mask of Tourmaline
Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.

I sense that a silence doth...

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Categories: achromatic, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Death of a Brother
Death of a Brother
Written: by Tom Wright
March 2015

His sun slipped below the horizon,
Leaving naught but an achromatic sky,

As thoughts submerged in time before, 
Once abeyant,...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: achromatic, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Life Sabotage
I am the muteness behind naivete
Born as the duplication of despair, flunked
A demented soul
An impaired self of bureaucracy

Jaded at the tip of shadow
Above it stood...

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Categories: achromatic, art, dark, fantasy, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Perils of Love
Emptying your heart of sad emotions
shelters you from experiencing norms.
For hiding behind your protective walls,
you feel impervious to sudden storms.

But betrayal cuts with a rusty...

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Categories: achromatic, angst, break up, depression,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Stepping Through Time
As time and space dimensions jelly-fish…
Quiet falls the cement-turf of lock-box seas;
Milky Way kisses answer my wish -
She nestles ‘neath an orchard cloak of apple...

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Categories: achromatic, fate, lost love,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs