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Best Charcoal Gray Poems

Below are the all-time best Charcoal Gray poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of charcoal gray poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member No Color God
I come from the twilight
Of dusk to dawn
Yet I can't stand
All around me downtown
All in up and around
Signs saying of  "Whites Only"
Mustn't go into...

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Categories: charcoal gray, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Billowing Askew
Apricot marmalade wispy clouds upon the blue
canvas, swiftly changing sunrise reveals a surprise_
charcoal gray, a textured smoke billowing askew
across the eastern sky, Suddenly diamond dew
drops...

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Categories: charcoal gray, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Not a Sound
Look up to a sky full of stars
akin to sparkling diamonds.
And watch a gold doubloon moon climb
high amidst a starlit background.

Not a sound, just you...

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Categories: charcoal gray, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member One More Morning
A cool still morning
Down where songbirds sing
Close to swift creek's flowing
And dove's notes ring

A sun slowly rises
Casting cobalt blue on clouds
Against sky's horizon
A gentle morning...

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Categories: charcoal gray, devotion, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Eastern Sky
Someone dipped their fanbrush
Into the charcoal gray
Painted the sky in whispy clouds
To open up my day

They softeded the dreary color
By telling the sun to rise
Bringing...

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Categories: charcoal gray, devotion, faith, life, naturesun,
Form: Rhyme



Acid Reign
Acid tears of salt and grief
all bottled up to send
across the ocean to a thief
who ran away again.
  archaic eyes in charcoal gray
painted on...

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Categories: charcoal gray, angst, lost love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Colorful Dance
Written: December 1st, 2023
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Colors waltz in a rainbow kaleidoscope
cynosure of...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charcoal gray, analogy, appreciation, color, dance,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Chrysalis
The chrysalis of bad emotions boil
Evanescent expressions cross the lips
A plethora of lines like sea's turmoil
The talisman has lost its charming grip

Radiant sapphire deep eyes...

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Categories: charcoal gray, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Solid
solid heavy clouds
charcoal gray coats a fall day  
 one drop clings 'pon cheek...

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Categories: charcoal gray, emotions,
Form: Haiku
Men, Do Not Give Up Your Dreams For These Girls, Keep Sleeping
Men, do not give up your dreams for these girls, keep sleeping. 


My cousin had read this phrase to me in August, when my wife...

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Categories: charcoal gray, desire, feelings, future, good
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Carry Me This Day
The sun rose red
Like a hot fire
On cold winter's day
Through the mist
Shrouded fog, bright red
It did blaze

Scattered whispy clouds
But some on horizon
Of heavy charcoal gray
Blessings...

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Categories: charcoal gray, devotion, faith, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ebony Butterfly---
EBONY BUTTERFLY

We all can fly
With powdered colored wings
Different you and I
But we're of the same being
BUTTERFLY
Look at me
At my mastery
See the beauty within

And surrounding, ever...

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Categories: charcoal gray, analogy, appreciation, black love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Day Is Our Life
Life dawns like sunrise
Soft pinks and blues against the black from which it came
Sudden burst of light stretching fingers and toes to a new day.
Receiving...

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© Lena Pate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charcoal gray, introspection, life, philosophy, timelife,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Golden Time
Golden leaves upon the pear trees
No fruit to ripen though
Spring's frost killed it all in the bud
Always hope for next year's to grow

The air is...

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Categories: charcoal gray, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Blues
When old man winter starts to sing
 I often think of spring
On those cold winter days
when upon my head snowflakes play
And I feel the winter's...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: charcoal gray, winter,
Form: Rhyme

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