Burnt Sienna Poems | Examples

A Harmony

While smoke enshrouded us one crowded night, 
Obscured by grey and ashy sea-breeze air,
Your face reflected flame and sparks took flight,
Eyes burnt-sienna, set a-dancing there. 

Your voice stayed with me, wrapped by memory. 
It played the deepest emerald melody,
To me, not quartet, but a symphony; 
I only wished the music just for me. 

Unknown to me, you heard my singing too, 
And day by day sat listening to my song, 
A quiet audience to me, running through
Each possibility, what could go wrong. 

So many trials, our voices rang in tune. 
But hope surmounts, beneath this glorious moon.

Last Leaves

“Dead leaves do not cease to exist. They live in another form, may be as nutrient to quicken another life. That way, every death is a doorway to another life”.  ~ By Poet


Last leaves of the ancient maple, yellowed and frayed,
Fluttering and dancing silently in mellowed stillness,
Nose dived into the burnt sienna ground below,
To become fodder for the saplings of spring.

My kid's first day at kindergarten

When I saw her eyes were burnt sienna,
and her lips were purple plaid,
when she said she wasn’t my kid’s teacher,
boy, was I ever sad.

discoloured palette

cyan blues indigo into nighttime
darkness scorches the soul to the core
hellfire’s charcoal embers 
dissipate lightness of being
achromatic void
engulfs a self-fulfilling promise

rose petals wither by the wayside
trudged and treaded upon
flame red converts to burnt sienna
a mere shadow dances in the heat

hunter green pastels fade in exhaustion
an emerald pendant strings 
a chafed neck in a choking embrace  

mustard gold’s alchemy
folds citric sunflowers
away from its rainbow
where a pot of tar
repeats the circular path

suave mauve corrodes
into rust and necessity’s must
clusters indecision 
and meaningless desire

the prism yields prison
and yet all colours
would merge into white
when the pail becomes 
half full once again
and chakras confide
to the canvass
and the portrait of truth

A TANKA PROSE afterword

I walk through the glade
colour enlightens me-
 in my mind's eye
abstractions rainbow
my persoective

The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;brilliant boneblack grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation as the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine;unseen the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon the earth green;bright mosaic gold
mottled the sallow sorrel virent yellow,oak stained the pale apricot;while
blood red,reddish russetdotted the olive lind;freckled crimson,a chestnut maroon,
on fuchsias faded apple green as burnt rumber sank deep into its sanguine slumber.

FIRST DRAFT

Mural Musings
the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical
rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine;
unseen
the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon
the earth green;
bright mosaic gold
mottled the sallow sorrel
virent yellow,oak stained
the pale apricot;
while
blood red,reddish russet
dotted the olive lind;
freckled crimson,
a chestnut maroon,
on fuchsias faded apple green
as burnt umber sank deep
into its sanguine slumber.

This a favourite poem because it combines my two hobbies art and poetry
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007

BLITZ of coloured words

the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical
rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine;
unseen
the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon
the earth green;
bright mosaic gold
mottled the sallow sorrel
virent yellow,oak stained
the pale apricot;
while
blood red,reddish russet
dotted the olive lind;
freckled crimson,
a chestnut maroon,
on fuchsias faded apple green
as burnt umber sank deep
into its sanguine slumber.

HAIBUN in detail

The haibun can be a standard(where haiku etc follows the prose) or afterword (where prose follows the haiku) or prose envelope (prose para haiku,para) verse envelope(haiku prose haiku) or interlaced (chorus, verse, chorus) or verse sequence (haiku,prose,haiku,haiku etc)





a haibun ABSTRACTION

The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,shadowing the speckled sallow saffron

a bluish buff upon the cochineal;brilliant boneblack grizzled the engrain

citrine carnation as the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical rainbow-tinted

the magenta mandarine;unseen the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,

reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon the earth green;bright mosaic gold

mottled the sallow sorrel virent yellow,oak stained the pale apricot;while

blood red,reddish russetdotted the olive lind;freckled crimson,a chestnut maroon,

on fuchsias faded apple green as burnt rumber sank deep into its sanguine slumber.

 

I walk through the glade

abstractions enlighten me-

colour my rainbow

Oceans - of Thought

| Oceans - Of Thought |

Harmonised hypothermia sets 
through the darkened depth 
of the chasm deep,
Like a heavy-weighted wreck 
of my linguistic mind.
As blithe planulae float 
amongst the turquoise torrents 
of the surging tides.
Efflux my porous skin 
that secretes the bitter brine,
Void of lust, my halitous breath.

When will I find the courage 
that guillotine faith;
cut across these saline soothing shores
That reflects like crystalline glass,
that rips and takes.
But, incompetent to see more;
the calm of the sea.

But under tide 
the waves topple above 
like whitewash remembrances
Beckoning me to emerge and find,
Flavours of youth 
in the lull of the sea
So I begin searching of forever freedoms 
in the caress of the breeze.

I say my adieu to the abyss-abundant sea
My love for the ocean;
Is a coral of burnt sienna, 
tipped with lanvanda, 
and blushing pinks.
The azure's solvent divinity 
has annihilated fear
Like an oakum of my sanity
My mind finally carefree.

A Wave of Fantasy In Colour

the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation

the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical
rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine;
the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon
the earth green;
bright mosaic gold
mottled the sallow sorrel
virent yellow,oak stained
the pale apricot;

blood red,reddish russet
dotted the olive lind;
freckled crimson,
a chestnut maroon,
on fuchsias faded apple green
burnt umber sank deep
into sanguine slumber.

Jazz the Form

the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical
rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine;
unseen
the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon
the earth green;
bright mosaic gold
mottled the sallow sorrel
virent yellow,oak stained
the pale apricot;
while
blood red,reddish russet
dotted the olive lind;
freckled crimson,
a chestnut maroon,
on fuchsias faded apple green
as burnt umber sank deep
into its sanguine slumber.

Renewal

burnt sienna buds
                                 on limbs and brindle branches
                                         emerging life

Abstract Artist

Burnt sienna strokes,
wild Sun an abstract artist;
The night steals the hue.

An Abstract In Words

the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation

as

the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical
rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine

unseen

the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon
the earth green;
bright mosaic gold
mottled the sallow sorrel
virent yellow,oak stained
the pale apricot

while

blood red,reddish russet
dotted the olive lind;
freckled crimson,
a chestnut maroon,
on fuchsias faded apple green
as burnt umber sank deep

into 
its sanguine slumber.

a repost from 6/2007

Encounter the Vocable

Mural musings
the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
the fallow flaxen,rustic rubrical
rainbow-tinted 
the magenta mandarine;
unseen
the ultra-marine, tinged burnt sienna,
reflecting a golden flame of raw umbery upon
the earth green;
bright mosaic gold
mottled the sallow sorrel
virent yellow,oak stained
the pale apricot;
while
blood red,reddish russet
dotted the olive lind;
freckled crimson,
a chestnut maroon,
on fuchsias faded apple green
as burnt umber sank deep
into its sanguine slumber.


Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007

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