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Sallow Poems - Poems about Sallow

Premium Member Tears Of A Clown
...Masquerading neath bitter angst, nobody loves this neurotic Sympathize—empathize with me pleading, bleeding, but no one listens Though, pleasing is the clown with Infecti......

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Categories: sallow, angst, crazy, deep, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Now Continuum
...The sky bathes the harbor in cyan turquoise cadet-blue sea foam bubbles the only gorget one has versus the flamingos and canaries absconding littoral mire the gashes on my feet, the burn in my <>...

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Categories: sallow, age, beauty, bird, first
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unending Bliss - Afterglow Wish
... Written: March 31st, 2025, for contest, Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann ************ After basking in yesterday's afterglow, I divested my vestments to shift in ......

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Categories: sallow, analogy, beauty,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field” Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers, and they ran across the killing field, watching the steel-toed kite ascend— a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum. Josh scoffed as it d......

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Categories: sallow, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
4x10
...The Killing Field” Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers, and they ran across the killing field, watching the steel-toed kite ascend— a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum. Josh scoffed as it d......

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Categories: sallow, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gentle Is the Day
...Gentle are the breezes, and gentle is the sun, And gentle are the times in which we have a little fun. So sallow not in solitude and slumber not in gray: When gentle are the flowers, and gentle is......

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Categories: sallow, day, flower, fun, sad,
Form: Couplet
In a Room with a Roof
...The sky outside is bright and clear, Yet my heart is shrouded with tears. Sunlight bathes the distant houses, While smog blankets my soul. I should cherish such rare sunny days, But I'm trapped ......

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Categories: sallow, desire, feelings, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nova Moon
...We danced away to music by its light but with a gasp, it ended all too soon, her pallid breath, forsaken by the night, as lovers swayed beneath the nova moon. Her lot, though grave, had taken t......

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Categories: sallow, absence, angst, anxiety, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Wanderer, Part II, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
...The Wanderer, Part II Awakening, the friendless man confronts the murky waves, the seabirds bathing, broadening out their feathers, the hoar-frost, harrowing hail & snow eternally falling… Th......

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Categories: sallow, bird, dark, loss, sea,
Form: Free verse
Between the Masks
...Wake up! The grass is fading back to gray, fall in love once more with this sallow spoilage of the green. Farewell to that verdancy that must turn, at its height, to an unpleasant glut. Le......

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Categories: sallow, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Falling With Leaves of Autumn
...The leaden cloud-covered sun relentlessly starves the summer harvest- strangling its life-giving light to wield the death of all filaments and assemblance of living green. Leaves plot their fate ......

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Categories: sallow, autumn, change, death, extended
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Golden Hour
... She basks in the golden glow, Draped in sunlight, ready for the show. Empty laughter fills the evening air, Her dreams alight, she doesn’t care. Twirling in silk, adorned with lace, Capturing ......

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Categories: sallow, america, celebrity, change, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unkindness Of Ravens
...Through shadowy veils of my mournful mind is the vastness of iridescent stars, their hopeful light does not comfort me. The very thought of not being in the treasure of your presence awakens the ......

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Categories: sallow, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
IN THIS SPACE
...I've been eating my soul, as of late Devouring morsels of scarred flesh Trying to find an end to constant unease A place where my head could rest There's an angst the lingers over My big sturd......

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Categories: sallow, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Couldn't Talk About it, So I Wrote a Poem
...A seed of love rests dormant in my heart. Unable to get it sprout on fertile grounds, It still lies thick and hard like a dried nut. Can I hope, a cool shower of rain will soak it, Ca......

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Categories: sallow, depression, loss, love, pain,
Form: Free verse

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