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Spectrums, Tints and Shades
Spectrums, Tints and Shades

Like the painter’s palette awash with hues and tones – white to tint and black to shade, greys scattered in between: 

What risks we run:
Shaving a little too close that we get the hair as well as the scalp; 
Shoving the pot...

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© Paul Obah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spectrums, africa, culture, , western,
Form: Free verse
Spectrums of Love
I have been blessed with things come to me

from beyond the curve of Earth.

Things?

Light. Warmth.

Yes, of course, But then?

 Darkness. Coolness..

Yes, dark follows light.

Warmth cools, as does…

What?

Passion.

How?

I have heard it. 

Heard?

Heard it whispered. Loud, soft, hard.

Now?

No, not now.

Perhaps you dreamed.

Perhaps I did....

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spectrums, allusion, lost love,
Form: Free verse

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