Short Charcoals Poems

The muted tones of yesterday...
Soft pastels of kids at play--
Lovers on a summer's day,
Charcoals of a moonlit May.

But watercolors fade away--
So too, the moonbeam's downy ray.
Some paintings seem to change that way...
How fleet, the hues of yesterday! 

~Mel...

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Wanting to cook
the catechist refuses to use fire
because every fire smells  hell

She made for herself
A snow ball with a core
Inside was hot red charcoal

“Possibly I will now cook”, she murmured
But hot charcoals melt away snow
 Face to face she was with fire

The rejected became her master...

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Into the grooves of sunset fair

when meadows forget time of hours
 
I climb inside the worlds and dare
 
to relish the budding of flowers

where charcoals play around bonfire
 
wrapped  in hues of different skin
 
starlight glows with your eyes' pyre
 
meeting you as we first begin.



Any Old Poem # 9...

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An empty studio:
the man of the passionate handwriting
belts his dog

come my glory, my plebeian bride
hamster bagels

glitter indeed:
meticulously chosen bbq charcoals
as whimsical jewellery

“I’m so on fire and hear the wind”

Your grabbers, call them back 
let me   su.su

“No, don’t touch me now,
let me talk”...

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TOMORROW REARS YESTERDAY

When life challenges sway us aback
With horizons of tomorrow seem plague 
We seek answers that never come
While hope fleets us inwardly
And we grief motherly
Forgetting life’s worth definitions 
I open an album of memories instead 
To reprint the direction of the next step
Because challenges are the charcoals
That furnace my will of living. 
...

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Iniquities vertical archways 
Traversing twilights retro
Drafted abysmal shadows
Aneath the roses bush...
Coloured acrylic murals 
Acidics transcending 
Medievils vague ambulant 
Abstract mystique ?
Embellished cerium 
Charcoals as that of gothics 
In vitro; masque'd
Achromatic architectural 
Envisioned designs...
Gomorrah's holistic 
Gargoyles; a black plagues 
Overture amid, Nefarious
Nepenthes, garden of her eden....

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Iniquities vertical archways 
Traversing twilights retro
Drafted abysmal shadows
Aneath the roses bush...
Coloured acrylic murals 
Acidics transcending 
Medievils vague ambulant 
Abstract mystique ?
Embellished cerium 
Charcoals as that of gothics 
In vitro; masque'd
Achromatic architectural 
Envisioned designs...
Gomorrah's holistic 
Gargoyles; a black plagues 
Overture amid, Nefarious
Nepenthes, garden of her eden....

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SKETCHING

charcoals soft lines
in varied shades of grey
birds in flight their feathers spanned light
captured in detail through blue heavenly heights
an artist’s creation emerges
blank pages come to life
with every stroke

SKETCHING



(Inspired by watching my artistically talented daughter-in-law 
sketch a “Verreaux Eagle” in the Champagne Valley Drakensberg)



© Kim van Breda—3 August 2015...

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A bottle garden adorns like the most elegant rose
Horticulturists’ pride featured in most writers’ prose   
Crafted by the youngest ambidextrous botanist
Whose prowess blooms far beyond the cloud’s mist.

A terrarium intricately built from a crystal- clear bottle,
Coco fibers, variety of bijou stones, rocks and pebbles;
Charcoals, moss, ferns, tiny plants and worm castings,
Dry barks and many more for creative miniature gardening....

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Plants, Trees, Hills, and Grass

White shed black trim corner back

School and Park with kids

Path near fence where two dogs track

Green, Brown, Orange, Yellow, Red, Black

 

Five Pines fifty years

Rock garden and sidewalk near

Lilac Bushes two

Squirrels, Chipmunks, Birds fly through

Expanse of sky white and blue

 

Back yard oasis singing

Leaves like bells ringing

Barbeque Charcoals on fire 

Burgers, Brats, cooked to desire...

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