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Coal Black Poems - Poems about Coal Black

Premium Member Forever Flick
... He was holding a football when our eyes first met, seeing beyond our years. Catching the missile, flying, he was surprised. We smiled. We were only six. His name was Flick. That’s what his......

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Categories: coal black, best friend, childhood, death
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Star Dust or Love’s Just
... Written by His hand, stars strewn in coal black skies anywhere I look, glowing in bleakest nights the sound of grace poured out beneath heaven’s cries silencing the wind with mus......

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Categories: coal black, appreciation, encouraging, faith, friendship,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Birds' Day
...They dive and circle as if in hypnotic state, Tiny wrens, and ravens, and coal black crows. When trucks dumps their loads, the flurry of fowl contemplate Savory morsels or just household throws. ......

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Categories: coal black, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member virtue v fault
...As a human' and in being aware.? I.' Or you.? In the great Out-there..yet not as great as the cosmos reaches.? Where Coal black winds slice frozen; on velocity's outer beaches.' Where Heats not j......

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Categories: coal black, appreciation, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Scene
...The most baby blue, two-storied house; baby blue chimney; and milk-chocolate-brown rooftop. A whimsical triangle pine, in front and ‘longside the home, seems to be atop a hill, newly covered in pe......

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Categories: coal black, art, winter,
Form: Ekphrasis



Eyes on the Fish
...Hungry for ideas - a fish dish would help, an unhinged arm's length away, way over the Yangtze River, where, far from the nearest eyeball, drunken cormorants dive for silverplated carp. Alas, ......

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Categories: coal black, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member sarikha
... love … a crutch for you but you wear it like a Prada suit matching handbag, of course, to keep your toys in … (mostly men … alphabetically) six-inch Blahnik stilettos for crushing egos wit......

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Categories: coal black, analogy, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Above the Melting Ice
...Above the Melting Ice Soft white skin, taut and smooth. Insulated from the Arctic cold, Snuggled warm in its wetsuit, he sleeps. Protected from predators, Camouflaged as a mound of snow, ......

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Categories: coal black, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
I miss
...Forcing myself to live in green- belt of forest with no civil comforts or concerns I don’t flinch. I won’t. Living in extremes of two seasons cinder-hot Sun drowning rain I don’t compla......

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Categories: coal black, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Summer Is Gone
...Autumn gives heed to the season's clarion call. In dispute with the tree branches, leaves fall The sun sometimes seems withdrawn. Red-yellow mix delightedly paints the dawn Winds and wintry in sl......

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Categories: coal black, life, seasons, weather,
Form: Free verse
A Flap of Crows
...The bare branches were shaking, twigs rattled like ill-fitting teeth. I thought: 'any moment now the coal black lumpiness of them will break a bough, and all tumble down or up, creating sk......

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Categories: coal black, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member marley’s maxim
... the frozen soil crumbled falling into my eyes and horrified mouth as I gripped the sodden roots on the rim of the pit my strength waning, (and my will) … at the bottom of the hole, a wooden ca......

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Categories: coal black, analogy, christmas, dark,
Form: Free verse
These Things I Do
...The stock of the rifle is hand-selected walnut. I dust a beautiful porcelain lady. My Nikon needs to be taken out of its case like a coal black memory. I pick up a quartz crystal, put it t......

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Categories: coal black, poetry,
Form: Free verse
To Liars, Pretenders and Well Honed Masqueraders
...#COVERS BLOWN, INTENT KNOWN, ACTIONS SHOWN! THE LACK OF, IMPACT OF..."SEWN!" IRON-CLAD, NOT JUST A PHAZE OR FAD, MICRO-KNOTTED, MASTERFULLY PLOTTED, WON'T BE FORGOTTEN- "THAT" TO BE EXACT...IS INFI......

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Categories: coal black, anger, corruption, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vase
...Bulbous, flat, keel-like ridge, and in other shapes I see you, Curved or carved; you shine painted in red, green, purple, or blue; As the rainbow is placed splendidly on bone china clay, With many......

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Categories: coal black, flower, inspirational, nature,
Form: Rhyme

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