The Scream Painting by Edvard Munch 1893
...Turpentine waters of paranoia
ripple beneath an opaque surface,
merging with the burnt umber sun,
ravenously setting
over the savage distance.
Did the earth just crack ...
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Categories:
burnt umber, anxiety, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Ekphrasis
Viridescent Vines
...
a crisp chill fills the early morning air
dew drops periodically appear on the
yellowing blades of grass
as a light frost coats
sh...
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Categories:
burnt umber, autumn, gothic, imagery, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Sacrificial Lamb
...Streaks of pallid moonlight
wash over blood-stained
burnt umber leaf blight.
Glistening stainless steel remains
within wilting noir roses
and blistered blades of grass.
Sickening ha...
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Categories:
burnt umber, dark, gothic, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
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
...
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Categories:
burnt umber, color,
Form: Verse
Excise Exercise 2: In a Wasteland
...Excise Exercise 2:
In a wasteland
decision is a choice.
Faced with Life or Death
makes progress clear-
What are the options?
Face the Fear of both.
One brutal truth.
Find love's surviva...
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Categories:
burnt umber, courage, endurance, faith,
Form: Free verse
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 flax...
...
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Categories:
burnt umber, color, word play,
Form: List
Autumnal
..."A melody whispers through the trees in the Autumnal season.
A colorful song, a sing along, and nature's beauty is the reason."
~ by ...
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Categories:
burnt umber, autumn, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Landscape Laced With Snow
...Summer wearily sighed then softly closed her door.
For three months she lingered, and now she'd slumber
while Fall lays a carpet of leaves upon the forest floor.
Her swirling wind gath...
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Categories:
burnt umber, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Winter's Spring
...AUTUMN WINTER'S SPRING
Burnt umber reddish brown bronze
Folic tree leaves on the grounds autumn
Chestnut smoky topaz
Cracklings of fallen autumns spring summer camp fires
Springs cri...
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Categories:
burnt umber, addiction, appreciation, engagement, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
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...
...
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Categories:
burnt umber, color, fantasy,
Form: Verse
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 flax...
...
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Categories:
burnt umber, poetry,
Form: Verse
Nature's Splendor Without Restraint
...“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've painted Autumn with burnt umber strokes
and russet leaves as they fell to...
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Categories:
burnt umber, nature,
Form: Quatrain
But a Moment
...I hold you ...
tight to my chest
but with a concerned tenderness,
as if you are an infant
that I am shielding from a storm ...
or an angel of Valhalla -
her last breath given, ear-to-heart
for...
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Categories:
burnt umber, death, imagery, nature, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Runes of Rue
...you ...
were there, of-a-sudden ...
standing beside me
after nearly three tens of years -
right beside me
like no time had passed
as if broken hearts, new lovers and
children, and a river's ...
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Categories:
burnt umber, appreciation, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The November Fashion Blog -- Quatrain
...(Reviewed by a snooty correspondent)
November dons her coats of warm terries,
tans, a few ochres, but surely not bright.
(Except for sneaky, red-coated berries,
peeking from bushes, agrin with ...
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Categories:
burnt umber, autumn, clothes, color, fashion,
Form: Quatrain
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