Best Anthracite Poems

In the sadness, we just won’t let go off the 
darkness in our souls.

They glow in the night, like anthracite 
coal.

It’s best to let go...

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Raven eyed the moon glowered
in an anthracite sky 
bleeding onto an India-ink stage
where Valkyrie’s pluck 
dead heroes to Valhalla. 

Wolf winds howl the ravished sight.
Rent...

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Crocheting needles waved her fingers from a self-disclosed mind

Texture and pattern set lines like predictive text and autocorrect

Wool over her eyes would know how to...

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Twilight downs the sun as dreams appear on the screen of sleep

Slips into the subconscious realm and trips a few fuses in slumber

Adapts and clears...

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The still water of the northern swamp
shone like anthracite coal
lending a rainbow hue to the reflections
of maiden hair fern 
and skunk cabbage.

Strangely, maples rooted wearily...

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Twas a lovely day in May.

A red-haired Grandmother, with her daughter and 
grandchild strolled the soft, still grass.
Under a large pine tree, she unwrapped a...

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Fruits noirs

Sans qu’on y prenne garde,
Le ciel se tisse du grillage
Sombre des branches.
Elles  s’étendent  chaque année,
Et chaque année,
Grignotent un peu plus d’espace,

Au point...

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NEANDERTHAL

In times gone by, now recondite,
Neanderthal, erect, upright,
spoke softly, tones so lily-white,
and tried to put the world aright.

He taught us how the flame ignites
that wearing...

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Why people somewhere so kind and gentle
and somewhere not? 
Why people in Saint-Petersburg ,
Moskow,  Astana, Bishkek
Look so impolite, inhospitable and  unfriendly?
Ask about it...

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The heather caresses leather
As across these hills I tread
The boggy ground it squelches
Moving like a water bed

Don’t stop or soon the eyeholes
With bog water they...

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From Earth's bowels win coal and oil,
Foul fossil fuel from toil and spoil.
Primordial stone and devil's blood.
Crack coalface cobs and pump the crude.
Burn anthracite and...

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Calling anthracite 
a diamond makes it no 
more a gem than a dog 
wearing a mask is a cat...

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Scream a blaze in passing fashion
tear the velveteen tapestry
of Luna’s anthracite passion
rake nails of rainbow majesty
on the depth of night’s travesty
reveal, revel, shine in the...

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the vice cannot squeeze any tighter

bolts crushed under the benchmark

gather dust with nuts and lost screws

a DIY manual mocks arrested craft

I cannot hold it together...

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“If a tree falls.....?”  No, there is no sound
Without an ear to hear. 
If light shines on....?  No, there is no sight
Without an...

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