Grayish Poems

Premium MemberCircles Spread on the Surface

...Circles spread on the surface
   And disappear in the pool
And do it so lightly - it must
   Be starting to sprinkle.

Where are the grayish clouds
   I should see in the reflection?
Where are...
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Categories: grayish, confusion, sad, water,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Membermystic in the mirror

...mystical phantom
grayish shadow reflection
hides inside mirror...
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Categories: grayish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Senryu


Premium Memberan overcast Kansas Day

...an overcast Kansas day
the kind that gives you a sunburn
without any sun
the clouds are dark grayish blue
thick sluggish unmoving
I stare into them seeking my Archangel Michael...
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Categories: grayish, angel,
Form: Free verse

Tired War, Release the Monkeys

...Tired War,Release the Monkeys

They tried to nail my boot to the floor
No nail puller  
My influence won the day
I was the monkey man

Earn the right
I want to ask 
Just for a little more ti...
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Categories: grayish, allusion, friend, planet, war,
Form: Free verse

Old Men Walking To The Sea

...OLD MEN WALKING TO THE SEA


OLD MEN WALKING TO THE SEA
GOING DOWN HILL THREE BY THREE
FOAMING MIST AND DISTANT THUNDER
OCEANS DEEP AND FILLED WITH WONDER

PASSING GATE AND ANCIENT TREE
HEAR...
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Categories: grayish, boat, fish, old,
Form: Rhyme


We loved like a thunderstorm

...We loved like a thunderstorm
Brief, but powerful

Before the thunder even started
There were warning signs
Like a slight breeze

And when lightning struck
It destroyed yet stopped after a whi...
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Categories: grayish, storm,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSharita loves Make Up

...Sharita was running out of make up on this strange night
She had put turquoise and purple in her hair all right
Her eyelids were painted a lovely grayish blue with dazzle
I need more make-up she s...
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Categories: grayish, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLoyal Love

...Dedicated to My Blessing, Timothy Lee, with Endless Love
Loving me includes a two-for-one, challenging package
because I love and care for my grown, special-needs son.
He said...
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Categories: grayish, absence, care, character, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Outside

...Outside is where stones are.
All around. 
You could have filled your pockets with stones. 
And then you didn’t. 
You miss that grayish stone with the brown dot. 

Outside is where there are pla...
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Categories: grayish, depression,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Queen Has a Navy that Floats in Her Gravy

...The Queen has a navy
That floats in her gravy,
It’s sharp and its clear,
But it’s sure tough to steer,
For the rudders get stuck
In that thick, grayish muck,
And the lads in the stern
Have a p...
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Categories: grayish, adventure, allegory, boat, character,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberWaves Meet Shadows

...Tides crashing ashore
Under grayish humid skies
Laughter hides the storm...
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Categories: grayish, anxiety, depression,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberForever's Loving Rose

...T’would seem the edge of beauty unexposed
Relies upon the images it stirs
More so than that, forever’s loving rose
Though faded knows she was the one he chose

For memory, though dark, still hol...
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Categories: grayish, love, lust, passion,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberFrozen stars in the shadows of changing seasons, the pain of love engraved in acrylic gold

...Frozen stars in the shadows of changing seasons, the pain of love engraved in acrylic gold
Swirls through the sunlight, draped in somber mists, the echo of endless memories
Of a timeless love story...
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Categories: grayish, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCHAZZ-

...ain’t no quartz banger
ain’t naw quartz banger
no, no, no quartz banger
don’t do them dabs 
are burned too hot 
or too much heat is applied 
juzt mine fingers be burning
as I play tha piano
a...
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Categories: grayish, analogy, celebration, character, courage,
Form: Lyric

Nickle plated oboes

...Red Slime: must you disguise your worth
aren't you treasure
which Mica and quarts
sand and gold
Aren't you tresure
that a torch should solitify
you into a crystalized anomlly
aren't as much tr...
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Categories: grayish, crazy, music,
Form: Ballad

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