Long Charcoal gray Poems

Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...

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Men, do not give up your dreams for these girls, keep sleeping. 


My cousin had read this phrase to me in August, when my wife left me for a harvard graduate that moved in our...

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Annick (my 28 year old sister) came down to NYC, from Boston, for a day visit. It was one of those warm, cerulean days between Christmas and New Years. Annick’s in a...

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EBONY BUTTERFLY

We all can fly
With powdered colored wings
Different you and I
But we're of the same being
BUTTERFLY
Look at me
At my mastery
See the beauty within

And surrounding, ever holding me
Is the many colored wings
Fluttering, embracing, holding me
Above this...

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Life dawns like sunrise
Soft pinks and blues against the black from which it came
Sudden burst of light stretching fingers and toes to a new day.
Receiving blankets of fluffy white
Soft breezes, from Mother Earth, kiss the...

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I come from the twilight
Of dusk to dawn
Yet I can't stand
All around me downtown
All in up and around
Signs saying of  "Whites Only"
Mustn't go into that café or restaurant
Funny, thing tho!
My soft money green, my...

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I could've gone to Holland. I could've gone to Spain.
I could've gone to Denmark. I could've gone insane,
But instead I came here, where the river mirrors life
In a fractured, dream-like way on this brilliant summer...

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Almost Gone Forever


I thought she was secure inside her cage,
     as I departed from the shelter and
was walking the short block back to my car,
     when all...

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Slave Girl
by Victor Ehikioya

I have left the gong,
The drum...
And those sticks that strike
The dead log,
To my mates, who yet, tarry
At the square with amulets
Flung around their necks.
My soles ache from trekking,
And my waist, too weak...

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Radiant dawn verily blessed by God
reflect His artistic wonders, beautifying mornings
assuring days --- triumphantly jubilant.

Through virtual exposure
I behold glorious twilight commencement
marked with crimson tints  along scarlet red clouds…

Iridescence of tangerine blaze 
subdues aquamarine firmament...

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Written: December 1st, 2023
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Colors waltz in a rainbow kaleidoscope
cynosure of sun sparks steel drum teams
Emerald elms embrace periwinkle sky
among fragrant...

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Sunday morning bright red sunrise
Reflecting onto the clouds
Constantly changes colors
There are wispy striated 
Vertically that are cotton candy pink


The horizonal ones have gone from
The bright red to lightere and lighter
Shades until now are salmon in...

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G'day friends, I'll be fer intraducin' me self ta ye. I be Periwinkle, cook ta the High Court of Fairieand teller of tall tales. Hang a peony seed round ye wee ones necks, so ye...

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A single star upon the blue
Jet streaks from charcoal to white
Pale pink breaks the horizon's line
Crickets and doves sing delight

Dove's have an echo some of the time
Roosters crow unanswered
Changing the horizon to rosa wine
Interspersed coyotoes...

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Black wool clouds carried by currents
float gently by, rain laden
Above the sky-blue sky reveals
jet streaks, clouds hold back morn's sun

Bumble bees hum in unison
Sun beams through charcoal gray
Beautiful canvas painted by
the master, in memory stay

White...

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Soft squish of boots,
gurgling footprints following
a plodding tread.
The riverbed speaks
as it enters the mud
writes also, a drainage of rivulets
cursively signs the rivers name
over and over again.

As my dark form appears
sleepy herons wing-beat air
What am I...

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The sun rose red
Like a hot fire
On cold winter's day
Through the mist
Shrouded fog, bright red
It did blaze

Scattered whispy clouds
But some on horizon
Of heavy charcoal gray
Blessings they are
To keep summer's heat
Far away at bay

The roosters' crow
But...

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Forgotten what it was to be alive
Then I see this glorious sunrise
Each one totally different
Today casts shadows of orange
Onto the charcoal gray whispy
Clouds 

Clouds that have been painted
With an artist fan brush
Light and whispy seemingly
Stationary,...

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Look up to a sky full of stars
akin to sparkling diamonds.
And watch a gold doubloon moon climb
high amidst a starlit background.

Not a sound, just you and your thoughts, 
all worldly distractions vanish.
And critiquing God's handiwork
your...

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The chrysalis of bad emotions boil
Evanescent expressions cross the lips
A plethora of lines like sea's turmoil
The talisman has lost its charming grip

Radiant sapphire deep eyes that desire
Dulcet voice in rhapsodic love song
A boiling cauldron steaming...

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 Pink and purple on the horizon this morn
Casting purple onto charcoal gray clouds
One lone Blackbird flies across sky forlorn
Nature close_ jet high in clouds flying proud

Mockingbird chatters as he flies nearby
How can he do...

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A cool still morning
Down where songbirds sing
Close to swift creek's flowing
And dove's notes ring

A sun slowly rises
Casting cobalt blue on clouds
Against sky's horizon
A gentle morning proud

Charcoal gray fluffy clouds
Dot the sky so blue
As a golden...

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Someone dipped their fanbrush
Into the charcoal gray
Painted the sky in whispy clouds
To open up my day

They softeded the dreary color
By telling the sun to rise
Bringing a harvest of cherries 
Right before my sleepy eyes

Thanks be...

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Two swallows grace the morning sky
They flew with their stream-line high
Their tail feathers in a sleek m
Flitting their wings no wonder they are slim

Spotted cotton painted clouds 
Colored in the pales charcoal gray
Revealed that there...

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