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Penumbra Poems - Poems about Penumbra


Premium Member In the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances
In the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances, Their ephemeral steps leave traces on the sands of passing time, Their dreams, like night butterflies, crash into closed windows, While the sea of existence churns under the moon, untouched by thoughts. The scent of regret floats in the air, heavy with unfulfilled promises, Their lives, like plastic flowers,...

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Categories: penumbra, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the penumbra of oblivion, I've engraved words of gold
In the penumbra of oblivion, I've engraved words of gold, About flowers that assembled their petals from moments of beginning, About storms, in which the lightning melted into dark forces, And all that was here was but the gift of silence that crossed. I've always drawn mornings that never embraced the dawn, The story of a labyrinth where steps are...

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Categories: penumbra, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



phantasmagoric twirl of monachopsis in penumbra
the fins of human quake tremendously spills grotesqueness while dumping the ox cosmos in the middle of smoothly mirrored ocean Walls where ones choice is fixed at dawn stagnantly brimming in obsolete enviable damp colours woven in a volcanic oasis of anguished circles embraced in loneliness fronted with shuttering frozen stars moulding through a sunny cheerful darkness reinvigorated with strident current in waves staring hovering and invading through the thorns of the barren mountains wrapped...

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Categories: penumbra, extended metaphor, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Suzette Prime
Penumbra
PENUMBRA A semi-hidden place Out of the limelight Hovering in shadow And almost unseen But still a dim copy Sometimes cast large And sometimes not Its own shade of grey Moving in synchrony An indistinct identity As if self-conscious Yet knowing its role To echo and follow Like its black cousin Faithful until it’s dark...

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Categories: penumbra, dark, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Cultist User of Accident
By a roadside a tattered insult! Pierced Paul swore not a soul consult. Why then had he joined case-ending cult? And who's claiming he can't one assault? " This guy shall like a car somersault And like Reeves' Volvo wear horrid fault" Remembered Reeves is now in a vault! Penumbra he'd hurt and got result, Assured a death not difficult: Reeves to heaven quickly...

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Categories: penumbra, death, evil, prejudice, violence,
Form: Rhyme



Penumbra
Penumbra, It's when day and night succumb together in a dark kiss......

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Categories: penumbra, allegory, allusion, analogy, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Virtual Town Square
Virtual Town Square David J Walker The marketplace is teeming with noise From the beginnings of early morning meetings Rumors and warnings about The strange faces from places you Never heard of before The penumbra provided protects the Interpretation of selective vision Mnemonic recitations guide Approved cogitation That gather...

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Categories: penumbra, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Umbra :: Penumbra :: Antumbra
Poetic Form :: Paiku Umbra Innermost core part of shadow. ~x~x~ Penumbra Space where part of light source obscured. ~x~x~ Antumbra Seen bright ring round eclipsing source. ~x~x~ ...

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Categories: penumbra, science,
Form: Verse
Penumbra
When life becomes a shadow, the sun will not reach the night... The night will not create the morning... There will not be death there will not be born... The world...

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Categories: penumbra, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Blue Penumbra
colour of the trees on the edge of green high peaks view the cyan haze...

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Categories: penumbra, mountains,
Form: Haiku
Penumbra
He writes, pouring down his words of glory Disclose the echoes of his wondrous dream Down into his soul her untold story Boundless desire; her tears, her eyes gleam. With strokes of rufous and cherry and wine Erasing the dark shadows from her eyes Canvas of ivory their love entwine Surround them believe, O Eros, Arise! Her heart she bore in a...

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Categories: penumbra, love, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Foreshadowing's Penumbra
Foreshadowing’s Penumbra by Odin Roark In his darkened room, The tick tock of scissors Clipping flowers in waiting, The voices chiming distant, Even with his ear pressed...

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Categories: penumbra, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Penumbra
inky black night stars brightly sparkling earths giant shadow moon slowly fading dark shadow spreading a total lunar eclipse a rare winter solstice not to be missed finally total coverage only one light to see a bright orange penumbra meant for only me...

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Categories: penumbra, happiness, hope, inspirational, introspection,
Form: I do not know?

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