cinereal
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beneath a sullen moon
silence hovered
my mind meandered
the two soon
inextricably
entwined
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Categories:
cinereal, feelings, moon, silence,
Form: Free verse
Raining in Summer
...The smoldering sun shines incessantly
Until the earth’s humidity hastens
The forming of cinereal clouds calmly covers
The spacious skies above and suddenly
Gentle rain soft but steady
Begins t...
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Categories:
cinereal, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse
Oblivion Crave - Anacreontic Verse
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Written: December 09, 2023
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Honeyed gold pearled shades
brown ferns and aspens
into shadowed paths
lit embers and oaks
As darkn...
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Categories:
cinereal, analogy, appreciation, longing, love,
Form: Lyric
Saving the Gray
...Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
and not the broken spool...
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Categories:
cinereal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Silence Personified
...I am nature,
soul of a mountain,
buried under
a billion snowflakes.
I float like butterflies,
from petal to petal.
As cinereal clouds clear,
under a glistening sunrise,
I illuminate like a...
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Categories:
cinereal, analogy, metaphor, silence,
Form: Personification
Faded With the Night
...Within the cinereal swirls
of clouded skies
I hear the quickened beat
of my pulse, fall within my steps
and the echoes of mind
on these empty streets
as i walk alone, lost
beneath the shadows
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Categories:
cinereal, city, dark, lonely, night,
Form: Free verse
Adrift In Fiction
...Placid rain gently kisses unblemished windows
as leaves fall in an Autumn breeze.
In the distance cinereal clouds congregate,
converging upon the city's royal citadel.
Oblivious to ...
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Categories:
cinereal, analogy, appreciation, books,
Form: Prose