Best Umbra Poems

The winding roads weave in and out
Through the thick murkiness of my mind
Molass density permeates this soupy blackout 
Opening the door for foggy convoluted whimsy
A marginal lucidity that’s delicate and flimsy
A menacing daze to which I am resigned

On the threshold sitting so precarious
I waver uncontrollably...

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I lie with shadows past the midnight hours
wondering . . . wondering. . . when will I ever sleep?
Something gnaws at me; at times it devours.
It devours the dreams I hope to dream.
Lyrics of some song or nothing-thoughts seem
insistent on lodging in my mind –...

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Everything is faint tonight.
By dint of a gloomy room
or a crescent moon...?
My heart is sad and tired.
Like a dew drop on a frond,
Will you be disappearing soon...?

Tayaw...

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The insect hymns
press gently on the inner ears.

They hide in the umbra,
great intricacies
of chitinous clicks
and timpanis
and tiny shockwave harmonies
grooving late
into the ferocious night -

until the umbra yowls
and hoots,
and the the hunters seek the hymns....

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night falls as a veil
another day passed away
bringing new longing
















4-7-2016...

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this is the way out
but where does it lead
to a path untaken
to a path unseen
to risk and try
to rely on fate
it is a chance we all must take

you wish to leave
so you fall behind
lost in a crowd of brainless minds
fallow blind 
or choose to see
the...

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Another letter today

Just one more step along my way

Check that box and forget about 

Whatever tomorrow brings

Even if it's only for a little while

Close my eyes and try to smile

Close my eyes

To the light. 

4/3/14...

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The reaper of the dark has crept in like a mist
Trapping all its victims within the shadow net
With vapors of hypnotic power you can't resist
You fall helplessly into a numbing trance
To escape this snare there is no chance
All precious memories you soon will forget

Awake and...

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we found each other's bodies
in a pile of bodies
writhing and squirming for the light

you were pulling petals off flowers
I was teaching young children how to swear
and in that moment of passion
such beauty, such surprise
that you would come over to my side, 

we appeared preserved
as in...

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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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A twilight, hard as it tries to disparage,
shall always remain dazzling in my mind.
The Sun, down, down, into the dark of night
carried off by the gloaming, gently it goes;
glaring, blazing, and impressive to the eye.
Never forget the astral stellar winks skyward,
from the ever-present celestial constellations.
The...

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Live your days with purpose,
and death walks by your side

To constantly remind,
what time will not abide

Your choice on how to handle,
ignore or then befriend

That last step left untaken
—where life begins again

(Bryce Canyon: August, 2019)...

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Dolor's a thousand elegancies
Abiding within the heart-
A dark-bloomed garden sighing soft
Its tutelage to impart......

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Weeping Willows droop,

swaying umbrella's umbra,

whispering trees stoop....

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