Best Drabness Poems

Drabby Friday is quickly approaching,
steady raindrops are unwelcoming;
more cheerless than a fluttering robin
finding refuge in the cathedral's spires
that cannot reach the swollen clouds,
I trod the...

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I have some photographs in black and white
which show my life when I was just a child.
That bygone era long ago took flight,
but pictures of...

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Before I tramp the course of my cause,
A family indeed we were, I and Kole
But I short of years from the other.
Only by words we...

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STILL LIFE

They had drained away slowly
sound of hammers,
smell of fresh cut lumber,
voices of hope, chatter of children,
sweet aroma of fresh tilled fertile soil.

Children grown up,
parents...

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Mona-Lisa Frowns


No darkness, drabness or sadness; could ever 
depress or compress Mona Lisa's rainbow smile. 
Because, Mona Lisa has the most expensive smile 
on planet...

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A Distant Train Whistle

Everymorning’s Chores


A baby cries, a distant train whistle blows,
sounds of morning building momentum.
Bacon sizzles, plates clatter, knives
clink “tinilly” together, nostrils twitch
awakening recalcitrant...

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Atomized Rainbow

Sun
creeping
through
foggy
atomized
rainbow
arch

daring
horizon’s
idle drabness

awaken
sweet brush

breathe
pigments
ecstasy
upon
joys
waking
world


6/27/2015

submitted to – Waltzing with color – Poetry contest
sponsor – Kim Merryman...

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Bougainvillea

Beneath the ashen cloudless sky
the rain subsided to reveal
a plant is budding from its womb
with many colors  to behold
of orange, pink and peach or...

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My old life seems monotonous to me now, but I allow it was fine then,
As cobalt skies allow warm butterscotch rays, to linger in the...

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You know
i'll be your bed
when you are red
and overlooked like an unintelligent nerd
I’ll be your bed

You know 
i’ll be your sweetheart,
when everyone sees you as...

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In a restaurant 
Elvis hung on a wall
Slightly crooked –
-nostalgic sepia,
Trademark pompadour.

His far away gaze
Staring blankly
Out at nowhere,
Through a window
At the drabness beyond.
 
In the...

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I feel the rustling and swaying of the rack.
Pushing past the green, yellow, and blue;
Dainty hands grab me from the back.
She had a smile upon...

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With lockdowns and fear the past year was drear.
Today it is dark and dank and dripping,
slate grey. The sun refuses to appear.
Wild winds have eased...

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In this moment
Of sheer damned damage
I grasp it
As if I owned it
It's devasting tragedy
It's underwhelming overture
A symphony of sadness
Bringing a drabness 
To a whole new...

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(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).

Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous...

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