Best Omen Poems

Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I long to join again
in my brethren’s song..

fading sunlight falls in slivers
through boughs of evergreen needles 
across timeworn trails I tread...

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Scientists say it’s just a mirage,
but sailors claim the ghost ship floats
in air, with stormy seas below.
Again he tries to round Cape Hope.

Captain van der Decken angered God
one savage 18th Century night.
Vowed he’d sail till “Judgment Day,”
to cross the Table Bay, he’d fight.

The Flying Dutchman...

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There once were mermaids hailing from Crete
The Aegean Sea they'd rule so sweet
        They'd enchant with their chant
        Dull the rant when heard 'can't'
For them not a match was Hercules' fleet

The...

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Five thousand pairs of black wings halt
And fell from the cold Arkansas sky
In one district alone the default
In Beebe did the feathered creatures die
And while the flock above them perished there
The fireworks flew all wingless on the eve
Of the coming year, and without reprieve
From the...

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OMEN
O’er wintry land bare trees now sway
On wing above, black birds traverse
Occluded skies of baleful grey
Outspreading wings impart a curse 
Omen of darkest consequence
Outcomes perceived by prescient sense
Oppress the spirit, damn the day...

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"Omen" 

The throat holds 
untold secrets
like a chamber
holds bullets

a silent question mark
wrapped around 
the speaking, 
changing gears 

full throttle
far reaching 
like a noose 
over sunbeams

the ropes 
for net cast 
morsel charms
upstroke downstroke 

Ariel beckons
the purpose 
of lions for love
into his shadowy arms

"hush", he says,

"the Long...

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Winter grates as the blackbird roams
through frosted limbs of trees... and shrills;
while moon hides from a brooding night 
its call, the threadbare air, refills.
My eyes mirror this drowning hymn 
while breaths cry out to agonize.
Deep within a starless backdrop
iced feathers cause anguish to rise.
 
And...

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Omen
Its coming soon i fear
I can hear the preacher on the corner screaming
" The end is near! "
If he only knew what ive been feeling 
in my bones these many years.
All the signs
All the warnings passed down for ages
Scribed by prophets on sacred pages.
The dreams...

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Like the lost sounds of evening bells 
The voices of children pealing 
The last lie of innocence in papyrus away; 
Not the baubled brook in joy; 
The rinsing screams soliciting crude customs back, 
Spreading phonetic fingers of laughter for aid; 
Our tone dead heart hears...

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This poem is an omen and I'll tell you why
It's number one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-five
That's the year I was born
I've weathered life's storms
So twenty more years I'm destined to survive


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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cold desolate abandon uninhabited snowing
      rain slippery icicles spike frostbite 
first month of year pillars of ice blind black

      black ice bad month first of the year
january gray shade screen canopy 
   ...

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Along lush woods that slither on hills between
Evening of Life recalls a town ,so quaint
For joyride cruising new borders, my dream!
Though on sharp ridge, pale oak warns of restraint.

Held by twisted stems coiled on ruined track
Grasses freeze, sad among twigs from the glen
More sad than...

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Mourning doves sigh on ice floe clouds
sand dune crickets pierce red dawn shrouds
bull’s-eye squall deluge from on high
on ice floe clouds mourning doves sigh

Vapour trails omen or a sign
grand stream whirls silver mist divine
blackbirds snatch and claw eggshell pails
omen or a sign vapour trails 

Golden...

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An Omen

Dilapidated
Ravens soars in sapphire skies.
Dreaming of feasting.

© © Dane Smith-Johnsen
April 8, 2010...

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Have you ever heard a crow caw in the dead of night
Never the thought crossed my mind until such was my plight
In the bright of the light I saw vast more than one
Nary my delight when their numbers sent me shook to stun
Pondered to run...

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