Best Charcoal Poems

Charcoal Sheep

Watery eyed thoughts came,
Zap! Pow!  a short circuited brain.
Inward turned burned ocular pain,
too many thoughts to restrain 
I’m a cheap sheep making my mistakes again.
Smell my seared wool going down the drain. 
Ba ba ba, sorta blackish, wishing I was right as rain.

Worlds...

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If there be such a thing as fate
and of the actions of men
only one ordained path
then how and why like blood 
do all stemmed and branched things grow
rooted on the endless roads 
of eternal light and dark?

Along the endless paths of creation
stop not to fester...

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double trouble on the boil    
earth bowels ooze devils oil
   
ancient rock and occult blood
darkest liquor thick as mud
cauldron charged to overflow
fire flare and charcoal glow
spirits rising from turmoil
circulate alembic coil
thus set free an evil spell
toxic breath creating hell

double trouble...

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The sky turns from blue to grey
This is the end of the light for today
Clouds swirl around like ghosts in the night
Avoid dark corners or you’ll get a fright

Shadows now form in the eerie sky
The moon comes out, the sun says goodbye
Creatures of the night...

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A charcoal sketch of lonely eyes;
 Stygian grey reflected lies,
Desolate haunts that drift from where
  the graphite raven sets her stare;
Trembling pleas her god denies,
  A charcoal sketch of lonely eyes,
Feels embers dim to chalky coal
  and onyx smolder through her soul;
Her...

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breakers crash trees sway
charcoal clouds on skies of gray…
Sun on Holiday...

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Gold on the mountain
Charcoal in early sky
Spirit lifted high...

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Draw the embers into the wood
Stroke it like it's a three-legged stool
Blacken the charcoal of a dying fire
Fasten it to a sun swelling brighter
The object is to lick the smoking flame
Soberly thoughtful to call out His name

Should a flash shine brilliantly
With a radiant outburst of...

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first dark charcoal sky
sun starts kissing horizon....
public love affair

click on about this poem...

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Black as the night
my sable soul sings songs
of Nubian ancestors
sleeping behind closed eyes
in the depths of the inner sanctum
of the womb of mind—silhouettes of beings
peeking through dark skies across ebony horizons.

Granny said, “The blacker the berry;
the sweeter the juice—that I was created
in the image…God don’t...

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cloudy base charcoal
mustard yellow brilliant flash
showers dark grey sky

Russell Sivey...

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While hanging
your charcoal portrait 
I sketched so long ago,
the gleaming glass 
shone as mirror
and embossed
your inner glow
My image stood
beside you, resting
upon your shoulder,
still, whispering in 
your ear, though
we're getting older
And then, I moved
my head by yours, our 
images did show, and
I kissed the charcoal lips
on...

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WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

Shadows of leaves against migrants stripped of bark

Children hidden against a darkened sky
A cup of river foaming at the mouth

Suited men and women laced swirl about with noxious airs
Walk blindly into an imaginary sun longtime set

Sink into the plastic remnants of bottles...

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2nd Elergy For Auntie Betty Akinyi Oyugi.
Life is scattered.
By Juno Byron(Junior).

Life is a balloon
Inflated full
A'n given to a baboon
Wherefore? though white as wool

Life is a pot
Resting on her head
With water it got
Cool cold as the dead

Life is a charcoal
Collected in a heap higher
Statued to make...

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Personas have limits, boundaries veiled by the thin masquerade of pretense
They whisper promises of identity, yet crack under pressure of reality's weight—poet

She puts on her face while vaping smoke surrounds, 
Carefully paints fishtail eyes , studs, and crimson lips,  
satin scarfs around hug her...

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