Best Nigrescent Poems

The decanter is filled with chicory blooms
(blue, for the sky is her pleasure)
while the snapshot turns nigrescent
marking rain for the evening weather
The ring with which they two had wed
lay gilded 'round her finger
With her eyes closed oboes quarreled
'gainst the scent of him, that lingered.
Her languish...

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Daybreak tinges the nigrescent sky
Hope surfaces in my mind's eye....

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With a
tremor of light
a black and white filter
inks the nigrescent sky with the
Day star....

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ETERNAL LIGHT

With a
tremor of light
a black and white filter
inks the nigrescent sky with the
Day star....

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on the wind
a bell tolls
memories surface
words unerased-
the image fades

with a tremor of light-
daybreak tinges
the nigrescent sky grey-
the horizon appears
distinct in my mind's eye

without-
the waning sun
warms my face
shalom cloaks
the wells within

hanging from the trees
winter fog welcomes the dawn
and obscures the light--
cobwebs shimmer
necklaced to the hedge

huddled together
from...

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DAY BREAKS
By this pool of stillness its
water unforgiving,deep and
mirror flat, a blue moon
ephemeral, below white-coated
peaks,Bleak and surreal.
The transient image all too soon
dissolves and ripples into space
as water through my fingers.Then
daybreak tinges the nigrescent sky.
DAYDREAM
Sitting here,into my daydream
drift meadows of stooked-up sheaves,
midst close growing clover,
in wind...

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Listening to the sounds of ghoulish frights
Six-feet deep but everything is alright
A cruel chill comes across you 
Thank God for top soil….whew
From the street and morgue to the ground
How they all depart with a devilish frown
Cold, stiff, pale and unstuffed
When your soul leaves your body...

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with a tremor of light-
daybreak tinges
the nigrescent sky grey-
the horizon appears
distinct in my mind's eye...

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Sunrise ripples across the lake
confusions surface as I awake

Amid the eerie dayspring light
yesterday's memories glow so bright

Morning tinges the nigrescent sky
hope emerges in my mind's eye....

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a tremor of light
daybreak tinges
a nigrescent sky-
the horizon 
illumes my mind's eye...

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with a tremor of light-
daybreak tinges
the nigrescent sky grey-
the horizon appears
distinct in my mind's eye...

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with a tremor of light
daybreak tinges
the nigrescent sky grey-
the horizon appears
distinct in my mind's eye...

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with a tremor of light-
daybreak tinges
the nigrescent sky grey-
the horizon appears
distinct in my mind's eye

NOTE:A tanka in English is essentially a 3 line hiku(SHOW)with a couplet amplification (TELL)...

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Daybreak tinges the nigrescent sky
Hope surfaces in my mind's eye....

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with a tremor of light-
daybreak tinges
the nigrescent sky grey-
the horizon appears
distinct in my mind's eye

NOTE:A tanka in English is essentially a 3 line hiku(SHOW)with a couplet amplification (TELL)...

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