Best Sulphurous Poems
A Letter To My Dead Daughter
...My Love,
The sky reminded me of you today.
The sun set in lilac with a teasing tinge of pink—
just the way you used to love it.
On other days, the sky is yellow and murky,
reeking of sulphur......
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Categories:
sulphurous, beautiful, bereavement, death, extended
Form:
Free verse
In the Minds Fixed Eye
...VIII
In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate";
And guileful Cassandra, she laid her two murdered ......
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Categories:
sulphurous, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Cafe Terrace in Arles, France
...Café Terrace in Arles, France
Beneath stars of heavenly grandeur,
In a café, romance prospects dwell brighter.
Patrons’ entertaining escapades of camaraderie
Charismatically whisper away......
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Categories:
sulphurous, french, night, romance, summer,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Volcanic Eruption of a Soul
...At times the soul gets clenched,
in an unspeakable grief.
In a demoniac grip,
it chokes and w r i g g l e s~
The pain of being stung by a dozen scorpions
or hacked piece by piece by an axe.
......
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Categories:
sulphurous, angst, depression, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Night Watch
...The harsh winds snarl and bite like fighting dogs.
No pity in this bull-black bitter night.
No stars nor moon can pierce the city fog.
No shelter saves the beggar from his plight.
The winds whi......
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Categories:
sulphurous, nature, places, visionary,
Form:
Sonnet
Wasted Energy
...Wasted Energy
Darkness descends like a ribbon unfurling
As astronauts in space orbit the churning Earth
And observe the lit orb that is the world below.
Likened to a planet on fire in su......
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Categories:
sulphurous, earth, education, environment, perspective,
Form:
Verse
I Want To Plant a Seed of Poesy
...I Want to Plant a Seed of Poesy
By Purushottam Dhakal
I want to write a poem
Every time
As people happen to die at road side
For lack of filling the stomach.
People are compelled to live a......
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Categories:
sulphurous, 1st grade,
Form:
Free verse
Cinnabar
...sulphurous
mercury rising
from tormented mountains
where your vermilion river
flows......
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Categories:
sulphurous, mountains, nature,
Form:
Cinquain
Black Mamba
...Words can be dangerous
The human mind can be poisonous
Our own deeds can be torturous
Our own needs can be sulphurous.......
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Categories:
sulphurous, character, people,
Form:
Quatrain
A New Age of Darkness
...The era of darkness is near,
I can smell the ground starting to rot.
The penetrating scent of Fetidity
Assaulting the nostrils of pure souls.
With the putrid scent goes along,
You......
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Categories:
sulphurous, dark, death, evil, humanity,
Form:
Epic
The Great Fish Maui Snared
...With canoe and hook of a jawbone
below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga
(departing p......
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Categories:
sulphurous, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Essence
...Something sinister stalks the streets
Searching the smells at sunset
Slipping unseen, slinking in shadows
Seeking that special sweet snack
She sees with rose tinted glasses
It's secretly stole......
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Categories:
sulphurous, death, fantasy
Form:
Alliteration
Sloth
...It was the missing decade
of my life that came back,
late on one clammy night.
Wearing your visage
of a foraging girl
at the foot of a tranquil Vesuvius.
Spent though I was,
for those de......
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Categories:
sulphurous, allegory, depression, loss, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Darkly Smoldering Allies
...Darkness and I have become allies,
affinity by association's shadowed prayer
spoken of the same kindred language,
consanguinity in our devout appeal
of blackening night's smoky ex......
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Categories:
sulphurous, allegory, dark, emotions, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Stonefaced
...STONEFACED
facets of fear
stoneswept
windfaced
as we stepped
into murky
darkening grey
recalling that
day you began
to fade away...
like vapour into
a mental decline
surrealisti......
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Categories:
sulphurous, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme