Best Penumbra Poems

Foreshadowing’s Penumbra
                                  by Odin Roark

In his darkened room,
The tick tock of scissors
Clipping...

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He writes, pouring down his words of glory
Disclose the echoes of his wondrous dream
Down into his soul her untold story 
Boundless desire; her tears, her eyes gleam.

With strokes of rufous and cherry and wine
Erasing the dark shadows from her eyes
Canvas of ivory their love entwine
Surround...

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inky black night
stars brightly sparkling
earths giant shadow
moon slowly fading

dark shadow spreading
a total lunar eclipse
a rare winter solstice
not to be missed

finally total coverage
only one light to see
a bright orange penumbra
meant for only me...

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colour of the trees
on the edge of green high peaks
view the cyan haze...

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the fins
of human
quake tremendously
spills grotesqueness while dumping
the ox cosmos in the middle of smoothly
mirrored
ocean Walls

where ones choice is fixed
at dawn stagnantly brimming
in obsolete enviable damp colours
woven in a volcanic
oasis of anguished circles embraced in
loneliness fronted
with shuttering frozen stars
moulding through a sunny cheerful darkness
reinvigorated with
strident current...

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Everything is normal
so not much to sing or say. 
No summer thunderstorm,
the snow was magical only for an hour.

Old men
aren’t removing women’s panties with removable dentures.
A belly laugh now and then,
an empty belly’s holy.

With simple joy
mortals may forget to fear their deaths. 
Simply put,
we do...

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Poetic Form :: Paiku

Umbra

Innermost
core
part of shadow.
~x~x~

Penumbra 

Space where part
of
light source obscured.
~x~x~

Antumbra 

Seen bright ring
round
eclipsing source.
~x~x~
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In the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances,
Their ephemeral steps leave traces on the sands of passing time,
Their dreams, like night butterflies, crash into closed windows,
While the sea of existence churns under the moon, untouched by thoughts.
The scent of regret floats in...

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When life
    becomes a shadow,
    the sun will not reach
    the night...
    The night will not create
    the morning...
    There will not be death
   ...

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In the penumbra of oblivion, I've engraved words of gold,
About flowers that assembled their petals from moments of beginning,
About storms, in which the lightning melted into dark forces,
And all that was here was but the gift of silence that crossed.
I've always drawn mornings that never...

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Penumbra, It's when day and night
succumb together
in a dark kiss......

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PENUMBRA

A semi-hidden place
Out of the limelight
Hovering in shadow
And almost unseen
But still a dim copy
Sometimes cast large
And sometimes not
Its own shade of grey
Moving in synchrony
An indistinct identity
As if self-conscious
Yet knowing its role
To echo and follow
Like its black cousin 
Faithful until it’s dark...

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Virtual Town Square 
David J Walker
 
The marketplace is teeming with noise 
From the beginnings of early morning meetings
            Rumors and warnings about 
The strange faces from places you
Never heard of before
The penumbra provided...

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By a roadside a tattered insult!
Pierced Paul swore not a soul consult.
Why then had he joined case-ending cult?
And who's claiming he can't one assault?
" This guy shall like a car somersault
And like Reeves' Volvo wear horrid fault"

Remembered Reeves is now in a vault!
Penumbra he'd hurt...

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