Long Adumbration Poems
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The Mask of TourmalineTwice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.
I sense that a silence doth sneak ‘tween cracks of weathered wood,
Conniving with that which shadows...
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adumbration, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery, myth, night, psychological,
Form:
Couplet
The Mask of AlabasterOnce the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.
I sense that a wince doth lurk and wear which wicked gaze,
Of conniving shadows cast between...
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Categories:
adumbration, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream, education, fantasy, fear,
Form:
Couplet
The Mask of LabradoriteThrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number.
I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to beg for booked...
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Categories:
adumbration, corruption, imagination, judgement, life, mystery, myth, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Original Mask of AlabasterA wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.
Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass,
I see a flushing fluorescent misty haze of frothy brass.
It floats aloft the frost of...
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Categories:
adumbration, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream, evil, horror, night,
Form:
Couplet
Ode To MetaphorsHere’s a twain of siblings so delicate—
The tenor and its weary vehicle,
Similar are, nor yet so disparate
O lady, art not thou so fickle?
In seeming sameness struts lady contrast,
Harmony jars to sing in unsure...
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Categories:
adumbration, metaphor, poetry,
Form:
Ode
Trenchant Recalcitrant Poet Welcomes Animadversion(alternately titled: aery diction galloped jocosely)
Abbreviation asper "FAKE"
abdication (wishful thinking),
an aberration Trump accepted
abjuration (or alternative) i.e.
ablation, thee apprenticed
president, would never forsake
abnegation (sooner his cold,
dead paws pried loose Putin
on the Ritz Carlton), this
abomination, his indiscriminate
abrogation appears...
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Categories:
adumbration, 12th grade, fate, goodbye, hyperbole, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Covid-19 a New Darknessdarkness ...
it is closing its careless bite
upon ALL of us
it knows no favor, no age, no disposition
fear and all its dim shadows
paint the tremulous sky above
and swirl the murky waters at our feet
it casts an...
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Categories:
adumbration, dark, health, hope, humanity, love, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Shadows Are MeSHADOWS ARE ME
I am there, but I am not.
I seem to be, but how could I?
I am my pain, which can’t be seen.
A shadow of yesterday, smoke in your...
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Categories:
adumbration, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
AdumbrationMidnight, bewitching hour
full of horripilation
Car door slam-bang
and the warble act begins
No,no, I scream inside
the verisimilitude of what will now ensue
I am a powerless protégé
a stand in for the only one who
could save me
but...
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Categories:
adumbration, angst,
Form:
Free verse