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Her Eyes were like Fireflies
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Joseph May
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charcoal, dream, night, star, stars,
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tattoo
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Carissa Marie
| Free verse |
charcoal, addiction, art, pain, sensual,
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Calm Before The Storm
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Robertina B.
| Free verse |
charcoal, change, environment, sky, universe,
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September 11th
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Melissa Tracy
| Rhyme |
charcoal, tribute,
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When You're Five
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Emile Pinet
| Sonnet |
charcoal, 10th grade, age, anxiety,
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And Justice For None
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Maurice Yvonne
| Free verse |
charcoal, angst,
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Short But Bitter
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Maurice Yvonne
| Free verse |
charcoal, political,
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The Art Museum
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Bette Bavington
| Rhyme |
charcoal, adventure, appreciation, art, beautiful,
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The Big Blues and Baptismal Alice
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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
| Free verse |
charcoal, courage, freedom, imagery, journey,
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A Blemish
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Edward Ibeh
| Acrostic |
charcoal, fate, memory, relationship,
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PHOTO FUN
by Line Gauthier
Were I given the choice
No matter the season
Heed the call every morn
Beguiling and playful
Come out and discover
Charge up the camera
Tote spare memory card
And head off...
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charcoal, art, beauty, creation, fun,
Haiku SBI
by Subimal Sinha-Roy
sky is charcoal black
birds return from cloud to nest
I sing life’s rain song
August 8, 2018
Syllable count : 5-7-5
(Checked on howmanysyllables.com)
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charcoal, life, rain, song,
Artha
by Christopher Vincent Aquino
ARTHA
Her tongue is made of sulfur
Mud drowns the fields
Fine sand billows over deserts
Soil sprinkled over graves
Blood and sweat for charcoal
Swallowed tears for potter's clay
Niter, mortar,...
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Categories:
charcoal, poems, poetry,
EBONY BUTTERFLY---
by James Edward Lee Sr.
EBONY BUTTERFLY
We all can fly
With powdered colored wings
Different you and I
But we're of the same being
BUTTERFLY
Look at me
At my mastery
See the beauty within
And surrounding, ever...
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charcoal, analogy, appreciation, black love,
Dance To Her Tune
by Emile Pinet
I do not see the sun much any more
its diminished light’s...all but gone away.
For charcoal clouds bring Autumn rains that pour
and send all the children...
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Categories:
charcoal, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Ballad of an Unsung Hero
by Silent One
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...
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charcoal, analogy, metaphor, political,
One More Morning
by Sara Kendrick
A cool still morning
Down where songbirds sing
Close to swift creek's flowing
And dove's notes ring
A sun slowly rises
Casting cobalt blue on clouds
Against sky's horizon
A gentle morning...
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Categories:
charcoal, devotion, introspection,
Free Fire
by Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
A thought came
Dressed as soldier
Telling me;
“Never buy matchbox
Trap shooting stars
To light the a charcoal stove
Forever free fire for you.
No tax, no smoke
Go now.”
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charcoal, fire, satire,
Last train
by Viv Wigley
She hugged her shoulders in the morning mist,
the sun struggled to pierce the charcoal shroud,
beside her someone turned, his lover kissed,
she left as he dissolved...
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charcoal, marriage,
Charcoal Memories
by millard lowe
Black as the night
my sable soul sings songs
of Nubian ancestors
sleeping behind closed eyes
in the depths of the inner sanctum
of the womb of mind—silhouettes of beings
peeking...
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charcoal, allegory, analogy, beauty, black
Winter's Pewter Ghost
by Dale Gregory Cozart
Like an eye through a keyhole
the moon's eclipse obfuscates
sun's white incandescence,
turns the solstice to morgue-gray.
As mist rises from a charcoal lake
laced with ice's torn edges
minions...
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charcoal, color, imagery, moon, winter,
Flying On The Wings Of Nostalgia
by Subimal Sinha-Roy
FLYING ON THE WINGS OF NOSTALGIA
I know the land where the lemon-trees flower,
the flushing meadows in spring are flooded in color,
the waves of morning mist...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
charcoal, beauty, longing, memory, mountains,
Summer Cooking
by curtis johnson
We have been roasting in the Sacramento Valley for the past 6 days ...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
charcoal, celebration, cool, food, summer,
40 Degrees West Nor West
by Mick Talbot
sunrise charcoal silhouettes
ember warmth
forty degrees west nor west...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
charcoal, nature, sun,
Monday the Moon--A Diary
by Sunlite Wanter
A quarter white and bright against blue charcoal skies,
Not a cloud, cirrus or otherwise to cover you.
Do I see your “man” curling on his back?
The...
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Tristich |
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Categories:
charcoal, appreciation, creation,
Flowers Of Bliss
by Subimal Sinha-Roy
FLOWERS OF BLISS
The sky smothers the twilight glow,
unaware, in deep horizon
dark and dense clump of cloud is born.
The streaming storm begins to blow,
in the rage...
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Categories:
charcoal, analogy, anger, inspirational, storm,
Sailing For Ages
by Subimal Sinha-Roy
SAILING FOR AGES
An ancient mariner on the sea I am sailing for ages
in the radiant sunshine and when the tempest rages.
On the rolling azure waves...
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Categories:
charcoal, analogy, endurance, imagery, sea,
Imperial City
by Dale Gregory Cozart
The storm erupted
from a charcoal-bruised sky
lashing spindles
of platinum rain
upon an emerald heath
tossed in trenchant wind.
Among the hedgerows and linden
the first spires emerged
like shoots from turned...
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Ekphrasis |
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charcoal, city, imagery, rain,
SUMMER RAIN STORM
by JAN ALLISON
Billowing nimbus writhe in charcoal sky,
zephyr winds whisk waves over briny seas.
I watch, observing clouds hastening by
on showery Summer days such as these,
as crystal raindrops...
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charcoal, sea, storm, summer,
In 100 Years
by Gershon Wolf
Arid, barren, desolate
skeletons strewn carelessly
jarring parched landscapes
Tucked away under rocks and boulders
one-celled creatures huddle
motionless, gasping, wheezing
Noonday sun blisters
methane-enveloped tropics
the...
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Categories:
charcoal, future, holocaust, loss,