Best Monochrome Poems

  I'm phasing in a recurring monochrome dream,
    velvet whispers lead me to a sonorous stream,
  translucent visions fall as vibrating showers,
    retracing footsteps on trampled golden flowers.
  Fragrant lullabies guide me on bronze ferns,
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From the allure of coloured art
 We step aside and then depart
 In search of ways by which to sate
 The urge to please, communicate;
 Monochromatic visual fare
 Sharpness defined, intent to share
 With composition in full view
 Amid the shadows that imbue
 Ideal traits...

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MONOCHROME SONATA
Black
To white
Transition
Soft tones of grey
Compose sublime monochrome sonata

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22 September 2019...

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I cherish old photos in monochrome
They seem more poignant and focused
Had they been in colour they would be lost
In dazzling cobalt skies and lapis lazuli waters

Turning my world into monochrome
I often wish I had a switch in my brain
Stopping all these colourful distractions
To focus and...

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Behind frosted glass

            Visions of a silver moon

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"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 answer 
arrives 
unheralded 

Reversed in Time
Something 
has lit the fuse
Something 
without colour 
grown from sparks 

Light 
through 
Matter Dark
is opening...

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For healing rain and fresh bloom,
I do thank you.

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Entry for Poet Destroyer's "Monochrome Photograph" contest
5/13/16...

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Silence and noise
Daybreak and twilight
Monochrome girl
In black and white.

Each day living
In a world with no
Colour or life
Or glimmer or glow.

Both colours
Meaningless as the other
White a nuisance
Black a mere bother.

Soles thudding on ground
Running away
From the fears that haunted
Her both night and day.

A gasp of pain
Sharp shoots...

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Blindly I wander, incapable of feeling anything but
numb.
Unable to see anything but the desolate space in my cone-shaped view.

It's been some time since I took a breath,
let a crude wisp of color seep in my lungs.

In one moment past, I inhaled long and full.
I viewed...

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It's a joyful riot of deep emerald satin,
this morning's monochrome 
of green.

It taints and paints the vast grasslands
that undulate like slowly 
swelling waves,

chasing one another across shimmering
shorelines that kiss the 
distant horizons.

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I watch the rain---
As the pitter-patter
Merges with the cacophony
Of everyday life,
And wonder..
Does the rain fall,
Or do we rise to meet it?...

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the leather train
the house without doors
both inside of the brain
one is and one roars

there's a whale
breathing slowly
on the slope of an anthill
the chorus said
that the lords are dead
and sand is made in a land mill

the midnight flight
was interrupted
by monochrome chameleons
and after that
enough said
we're through silly...

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And I guess you could have called it,
a Larry Burrows kind of day, with its 
grey-white, soft light, grainy Tri-X sky  

while the V.C. and the grunts, continued
hard at play; and some were dead in 
black and white, others wounded in a 
screaming mid-tone...

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Monochrome girl
With the black and white soul,
A neutral expression,
And eyes of coal.

She strikes you down
With her emotionless gaze,
And the mundane words
She colorlessly says.

But don’t think for a second
That she is free of pain, 
For deep within her
Is an eternal rain.

She’d rather die
Than let you see...

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As fragmented skies weep
My night of gray
Monochrome memories
And cobblestone
Dreams silently await
The break of day
when suddenly I hear
The telephone!  

Written by Emile Aug. 19th , 2015 for “VISUAL OF A VERSO - Poetry Contest”...

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