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Deep Brown Poems - Poems about Deep Brown

Memories of Jessie

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(A lone voice whispers)

It's early morning as I stand here in our old bedroom 

Listening to my old friends the robins, blackbirds, and thrushes 

The twitterings, tweeting and chirps of wil...
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Categories: deep brown, grief,
Form: Rhyme

a portrait of a family at a dinner table

...Father is dressed in grim face and a white shirt,
His unfriendly face could win the heart of Hitler –
mother combed her hair this time
and her deep brown eyes carries heavy love for her family.
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Categories: deep brown, abuse, grief,
Form: Sonnet



The Universe

...How did I get here…?
It was of course no accident
yet I would never willfully do this to myself 
nor anyone I love. 
I don’t think this feeling has fully sunk in yet. 
It’s almost as if I’m watc...
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Categories: deep brown, change, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Poem For Ginger

...Ginger was the foster teen I met at the school bus stop 
In spite of her burns she was so beautiful and strong
Never forgot her long eyelashes and deep brown eyes
Given by her parents like her sev...
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Categories: deep brown, abuse, appreciation,
Form: Acrostic

Strawberries

...A big, glass bowl of oranges 
	with eight pleated butterflies—
		perfectly symmetrical
		etched along the side.
The sunlight, with all the eagerness,
	all the youth of morning
		pouring through...
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Categories: deep brown, fruit, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLost Words

...I'm all choked up
my words are lost.
for one more 
look at you
I'd sell my soul 
and become 
a modern day faust.

Your deep brown eyes 
pull me into a place,
unlike any I've ever been
and ...
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Categories: deep brown, appreciation, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Seed

...A tiny seed, planted in the muddy ground.
With plentiful sunshine and sparkling water, it grew.
A deep brown trunk, tall and round,
Reaching up to the sky, so bright and blue.

Lots of thick bra...
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Categories: deep brown, beauty, flower, fruit, growing
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberMy Love Divine Love and My Song-

...My Beloved, my love divine, 
My heart is yours, and yours is mine.
 Your deep brown eyes, they fill me with glee, 
Your sweet and caring nature, it sets me free. 

Your worship and p...
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Categories: deep brown, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Central Face

...I answer to the norm
the strangest decorum
in the Northern Hemisphere
I have a longing to be free

Burning seeds
their husks weep
In valleys of sleep  
Two tulips niggardly cling
to the here...
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Categories: deep brown, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse

First Lettered Love

...Can a girl be so in love?
All thoughts revolve around what lies beneath those brown curls
Listening close for any mention of his name
Every chance she gets, she’ll speak of him
Be it his deep bro...
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Categories: deep brown, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPaddy

...Paddy

His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short!  He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat co...
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Categories: deep brown, dog,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberAt the Hollywood Plaza With Eddie and Dolores

...Anti-Poem – “At The Hollywood Plaza With Eddie And Dolores”

(Poet’s Instruction – Kindly play “You Can’t Be True, Dear,” by Ken Griffin, 1946, while reading).

she be smelling mighty good my dol...
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Categories: deep brown, america, fantasy, imagination, romantic
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberProof of Life

...Earlier in the week I was pretty sick and Peter was pampering me. One night, as Peter was taking away my tea tray, I took a selfie to send to my mom - as proof of life. 
He looked at it from the sid...
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Categories: deep brown, boyfriend, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTuesday

...It’s Tuesday morning. I’d thought, until Leeza corrected me, that Thanksgiving was today. 

“Thanksgiving always falls on Thursday, dorkus,” Leeza said Sunday, at breakfast (extirpating my...
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Categories: deep brown, friendship, fun, holiday, new
Form: Free verse

The Furrowed Charm

...The melancholic pair of his deep brown eyes, depicts the contusion of his heart,

his stained skin and the deep furrows shows, how viciously he was torn apart. .

The bruise on his feet, the scra...
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Categories: deep brown, absence, age, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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