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Gnomon Poems - Poems about Gnomon

Premium Member Story
...I'm just writing my story Leaving out all the glory I never tore them; yet the pages and spine are all but broken Its letters are scattered, yet still the words form a concise omen Would you read......

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Categories: gnomon, angst, deep, introspection, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 66
...She was happy to deliver the news if only to get a glimpse of Lumi. They had met some years back, before he had been exiled to the northern desert. She thought she would never see him again and w......

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Categories: gnomon, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic



Lockdown Courtesy Coronavirus Covid 19
...Lockdown (courtesy coronavirus COVID-19)... Minimally impacts mine secluded lifestyle, cuz yours truly came into this madcap world approximately 534714.57958 times after gnomon cast shadow acro......

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Categories: gnomon, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Autumn
...Feeling inside soul of time and weather change Colder weather arriving and autumn harvest, Full natural growth and the autumnal equinox glows Wonderful time for a football game, hometown competiti......

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Categories: gnomon, autumn, earth, farm, football,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow Casters
...Shadow Casters The blaring light casts a superfluous shadow upon the timepiece, in a garden full of weeds. As empires have fallen; iron and clay, once gold, the gnomon stands strong, ve......

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Categories: gnomon, faith,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sunny Hours
...I only tell of sunny hours... I,Gnomon, Sundial yeoman; Suntanned sentinel Stand watch, Shedding tears for unrequited love. My cooling shadow stalks sun; Caresses with timely sunscreen Sweet......

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Categories: gnomon, love, sun, time,
Form: Personification
Premium Member I'M a Sundial
...I only tell of sunny hours... for I can’t penetrate the dark. Light is a weaver of colors, whose rainbows clothe a naked sun... I perceive shadows as they creep... ......

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Categories: gnomon, 10th grade, fantasy, hyperbole,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Life On Sundial
...I only tell of sunny hours… For me the trail of time disappears in the depth of darkness at sundown, but my mind doesn’t harbor any qualm, I dream drenched in stardust of stellar sky… I’ll trace......

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Categories: gnomon, analogy, life, sun, time,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Sundial Wisdom--
...SUNDIAL WISDOM-- I only tell of sunny hours; And my face looks toward heaven's skies; And a gnomon, which casts a shadow onto my dial; My eyes gnomon clouds ruin my view; Glaucoma vision clou......

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Categories: gnomon, analogy, appreciation, introspection, visionary,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Questioning the Gnomon: Session Two
...O Fingernail Moon have you sent us Morning Sun to show us building? And Morning Sun are you sliding down the mountainside to hint at pyramids, how to build them,......

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Categories: gnomon, assonance, father, metaphor, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Questioning the Gnomon: Session One
...O Fingernail Moon pointing down at the ocean what goddess clipped you? O clipped fingernail without your acute reply can I scratch mind’s itch? Scratch may be: the swi......

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Categories: gnomon, assonance, moon, repetition, sound,
Form: Free verse
Gnomon
...So I now come to that same blessed mound, witness of much that memory still holds dear. Though now these fields grey-sullen clouds make drear, they once outspread a carpet royal around our fe......

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Categories: gnomon, bereavement, memory, time,
Form: Sonnet
My Shadow
...A constant reminder of what’s surrounding me The vacuum of evil that seeks to suck me in That the light will fade and I too will cease to be Along with my warped blank paperweight twin I walk i......

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Categories: gnomon, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Sun-Dial's Foreshadowing Time
...As the day lengthens and sun grows high, your shadow shortens as the day goes by, and i think of you in noon's repose, and wonder where your shadow goes. Then there you are on the other......

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Categories: gnomon, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chasing Shadows
...A brass sundial awaits Sol's kiss, of glistening gold. And aligned with the North Star; its gnomon stabs at the cold. Tarnished and weather-beaten; it waits for Sol to come back. Stan......

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Categories: gnomon, fantasy, feelings, imagery, imagination,
Form: Quatrain

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