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Portentous Poems - Poems about Portentous

Premium Member Shadows on Rooftops
...yellow, orange, red, ribbons stretched across…the brilliant sun the sound of a rooster..,a fiddler on a roof, above Anatevka where roads are muddy and tradition is a foundation…milky town comes ......

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Categories: portentous, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prophecy or Warning
...Ominous thunder, prophecy or merely a warning? God’s hands clap loudly, oak tree or transformer must have been hit. Portentous night has turned still and bleak, silence as a warning Menacing cloud......

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Categories: portentous, storm,
Form: Free verse



Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant bred within the survival instinct of hungry hordes of prey, when Earth in the balance against an uncomfortable truth smug smurf like scavengers. Pun......

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Categories: portentous, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Incantations
...Were every breath an incantation, Every word a prophecy, Would I fear more this consternation, Not writing for anxiety? Were every word a portent, telling, Every sentence writ, a spell, Woul......

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Categories: portentous, angst, anxiety, art, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn Scent
...Autumn Scent A scent of urgency carried on the wind fills my nostrils with a whiff of a smell I know all too well, The trees, still green, don’t fool me one......

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Categories: portentous, autumn, seasons, weather,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Watcher
... Into the woods we ventured, where darkness began to encircle us, Their ancient murmurs mingling with the forest’s ominous chorus. A chilling breeze, as if the very breath of the woods sighed, Ve......

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Categories: portentous, dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
... I melt into the plural sky its rippling tableaus of tomorrow underneath open light waves see-saws the labyrinth like Delphi tendrils crossing channels all the changing faces played automati......

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Categories: portentous, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse
Saturday, September 23, 2023
...Saturday, September 23, 2023 Coincides with first day of fall and Autumnal equinox for said year, where colorful splash kindled like tinder. After I riff flecked about thee August Autumn E......

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Categories: portentous, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scent of Autumn
...Scent of Autumn A scent of urgency carried on the wind filled my nostrils with a whiff of a smell I knew all to well, “Autumn was adrift.” The trees, still green, didn’t fool ......

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Categories: portentous, autumn, perspective, weather,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Dismal Mood
... Wistful and withdrawn, I wander through the night Feeling grim and melancholy, a shroud of darkness tight Depression grips my heart, its hold......

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Categories: portentous, analogy, bereavement, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunrise Fruit
...Portentous sky before the plum daybreak. Just as night frights vanish, fading away. Portentous sky before the plum daybreak. The beauty and awe of a fresh day sake What does it matter......

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Categories: portentous, analogy, appreciation, change, day,
Form: Triolet
They Rather Lift Your Casket Than Your Dreams
...THEY RATHER LIFT YOUR CASKET THAN YOUR DREAMS Dreams are made just like beautiful caskets. Dreams can be waylaid, even in reality outskirt. Dreams do come true but death has only one rule: ......

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Categories: portentous, 1st grade, death, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Enemy of Good Fate
...I climbed the peak and you pulled me down You could have helped me stay rooted but instead you frowned Frowned at my success, frowned at my pace, frowned at my place You wished I had drowned And ......

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Categories: portentous, christian, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Annual Resolutions
...Growth should be the ultimate criterion, nucleus and kernel of every annual pledge, for myself and other people who might gain, from a heartfelt commitment such as mine, that monumental new year ......

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Categories: portentous, adventure, art, birth, care,
Form: Free verse
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,
...Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,... a willing experimental subject to escape untenable married life. Upon falling into a deep slumber, the following subconscious somnambu......

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Categories: portentous, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

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