Shading Poems

Snowwhite Moon Minichu

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Where the pale moon's laying,
Every tree flickers 
Her apple poison shading — 

Not every kiss is sweet,
~ Snow White ~
She's still chilled asleep

my
ties
rise

Where the pale moon's l...
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Categories: shading, angst, introspection, kiss, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberReflection

...Tackling a slick problem like D’Alembert’s paradox— 
a cylinder set in motion, destined to roll on and on— 
My fresh numerical method spoke in the same voice, 
but sparked sharp debate—someone bla...
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Categories: shading, humor,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberConfronting Shadows

...Look closely at shadows following you 
shading footfalls with a soft Lapis blue
Bits of yesterday mixed with tomorrow
Shadows reflecting days we could borrow

They belie the memories that we fin...
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Categories: shading, age, blue, change, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn the depths of the soul, where only silent shadows whisper

...In the depths of the soul, where only silent shadows whisper,
Burns a nameless flame, a sun that knows no setting in the whirlwind,
Born from our meeting like an intersection of falling stars,
It'...
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Categories: shading, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Fantasy Holiday

...My Fantasy Holiday

Another grey and dismal day so damp
To work I trudge along the streets of old
Through puddles ankle deep I grisly tramp
All muffled up, clothed to fight the cold

Each day ...
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Categories: shading, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain


Premium MemberSummertime

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  Relaxing, Sitting in my rocking chair-
  my big Umbrella shading wind and sun,
  beside this Mirrored lake without a care
  for Me means summer joy has now begun....
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Categories: shading, summer, tribute,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberProtection Tree

...There will never be
A story told
That does not measure
Hope so old
As in this tree
With shading bow
As here I sit
In writing now

For in this ancient 
Solid form
That buries deep
Under th...
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Categories: shading, appreciation, nature, spiritual, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberdrifting

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solemn thoughts
meanderings
wandering over the night
stars glistening
on seas of ebony
nocturnal whispers, reflections
in moonlight inklings
stars hesitant
to glow, where the past pee...
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Categories: shading, appreciation, hope, inspirational, inspirational
Form: Free verse

Premium Membermasterpieces

...My average means I don’t have to take final exams.
So my bachelor's degree is a finished product.
I cranked it out, all that’s left now is the walk (May 18th).
Let’s call it my nearly forgotten ma...
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Categories: shading, farewell, friendship, graduation, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSpring's Teasing Hue

...Springtime has arrived,
And so has her yellowing;
Shading everything:-
And when her rains have fallen,
Yellow puddles spring up; achoo!...
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Categories: shading, color, humor, hyperbole, imagery,
Form: Tanka

look whut they've done to us

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                               i hear'd
                        you're thuh recluse
                                 alone
                       raising your beauty
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Categories: shading, allusion, angst, extended metaphor,
Form: Epyllion

Premium MemberPALASADES OF LOVE: A HAIKU QUARTET

...Trees are gifts from God 
Rooted, trunked, and barked with love—
We are as God’s trees:-

In labors of love,
Let’s palisade life with love—
Our branches shading:-

Let our lovely leaves
Be a...
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Categories: shading, allegory, analogy, beauty, extended
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberTree and Boy

...seed
aloft,
lands lightly,
sends roots below,
sprouts into sunshine,
and, as the seasons pass,
becomes a great sycamore,
while, below, a boy lies face up,
and reflects under its swaying limbs...
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Categories: shading, boy, tree,
Form: Etheree

Old man and young

...This is a familiar village, with a few homes,  
Smoke rises straight from the chimneys’ domes.  
Today the streets are desolate and bare,  
Houses decaying, no one to care.  

Did the children d...
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Categories: shading, old, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn a vast cauldron, where hearts boil in suffering and dreams

...In a vast cauldron, where hearts boil in suffering and dreams,
Society rounds itself like a sea of untamed thoughts,
Under a leaden sky, where time flows like a river of memories,
The heavy clouds...
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Categories: shading, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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