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Burnt Umber Poems - Poems about Burnt Umber

Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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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