Best Sepia Poems

When I was just a little girl
I painted soaring seagulls
in a dawning sky of duck-egg blue
I painted ladybirds and whimsical butterflies
A red cottage with square-shaped windows
A misty mountain with a purple hue.
All my fields were evergreen
with  flowers falling like confetti in between.
A rising sun...

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As I sit upon these old porch steps, that I have always known
A weathered stoop, with gray floorboards, that shake with every wind
These creaks and groans,  the flaws and chips, ... familiar to my hand 
I have come to some conclusion,,,
I've come to understand,...

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 The human spirit needs places where
nature has not been rearranged
by the hand of man
Author Unknown

A metal rail now mocks the space

where a massive trunk once rose two hundred feet, 
and a long stairway, and a sign,and a doorway
 make up  ‘The Stump Hotel.’...

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Sepia Dreams

“Let me take from this your kiss, the taste of you my lips shall miss”

So long since I held you
X’s on the calendar days…patterned of my missing
Promises made on long distant lines
and letters sent, penned of love’s smiles on sleepless nights

“My heart it finds...

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Sepia Dreams

“Let me take from this, your kiss, the taste of you my lips shall miss”

So long since I held you
X’s on the calendar days…patterned of my missing
Promises made on long distant lines
and letters sent, penned of love’s smiles on sleepless nights

“My heart it finds...

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Nestled in the arms of night's embrace
 I wait for grievous thoughts to fade
  as though they were bubbles popping
   one by one, in a fluted glass of champagne

When bold colored memories languish
 sepia visions distort my sorrows
  and the scars...

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Black and White Photo
 
In her forties bandana
his mother looks on
Life's taken a turn,
The war is won.
 
Dark and beautiful
her son at her side
leans his head to her cheek
Norman Rockwell style.
 
He grows dutiful, practical,
colors in the lines,
stacks his blocks neatly
and gets gold stars.
 
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Before you ~
        I dreamed in sepia 

                   With you ~
         ...

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Sunglass water pails
The cover up, never fails
Draining water from her 
Heartbroken pools
A screaming silence
Blocked behind her 
Tinted view
With a blink, rivers flow
She is lost and all alone
Who is there ?
When there is nobody else
Beside her.

She feels
As separated as her tears
As they are falling
Hope disappears
Collecting pain
Where...

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Sip the slide of spilled champagne 
Feel it glide through every vein
Scented by the rose red lips
Aghast beheld by rapture's grip
Scars reflect in mannequin eyes
Silent screams and splintered sighs
Famished with a tongue that's tied
Stuck in place; nowhere to hide
Love stained sheets stacked layers deep
With every...

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... sepia dusk settles

           onyx raindrops, moist pebbles

           sheltered flame crackles ......

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Chance flavours time
As wit strings rhymes


Old ancient ways
In buried stay


Old picture book
Brown sepia looks


Old times live on
***** yet beyond


Old photos here
Milestones once dear


Old memoirs style
Strange faces file


Old beyond trace
Haunting this space


Old brown sepia
Quaint black media


Ancient old wits
Lost times, blown bits




Leon Enriquez
18 August 2015
Singapore...

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Heaven's rays warning
Ankle twisting shoreline's pain
Emerald motion~~~~

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Spend your days in black and white
Day dream away in sepia
Reminisce of yesteryear
And nostalgia bleeds from you

You've locked the door and lost the key
I know you'll never let me in
I kept on knocking 'til my hands bled dry
Who is that stranger in your skin?

And rain...

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You wanted the truth
What does that mean?
The edited version
or uncensored blood-scene.
Shall I skip the part
about regimented dreams
haunting my nights
Or the throat-ripping screams
I gave to the times
I was missing your voice
as nothing compares
to that beautiful noise

Do you want to know
of the times I shudder
as memories flood
in...

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