Short Monochromatic Poems

My crayon color is greenish plaid
Cause monochromatic is sad...

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blue swells sink and rise
albatross sail endless skies...
deep mournful voice cries...

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The Dawn crept over the 
monochromatic hills
with the stealth of a vampire.
Bleeding into blue-black veined forest
through a lilac haze....

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I feel I am in this dream,
Where I experience bliss supreme.
An inner world that till today was unseen,
Things unfolding in an outlandishly beautiful scene....

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She utters faint sounds,
I swear they're syllables,
But they sure aren't words.

Hidden behind veils,
Of succulent red flesh,
And rigid white bone.

Her "words" shatter glass,
But will never compensate,
For their lack of worth....

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The lilac haze of Dawn creeps up,
With the stealth of a vampire.
Bleeding glistening red droplets into
The blue-black veined forest 
And to the monochromatic hills beyond.

~I dissected and reworded Deborah Guzzi's poem Vampiric Dawn~...

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Meandering through
the cracks of a
Baltic horizon
stripped of
its lunary luminance,
streams of darkness slither
their way through
the calloused sieve of a
monochromatic
midnight sunrise
that unfurls its
featherless wings
over Leningrad





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A flower of a different color stands alone
within the flora of a monochromatic scene,
breaking up the wavy sea of yellow buttercups,
making a bold statement that being different
from the others is not a sign of weakness
but of fortitude as a minority who shares
the same neighborhood....

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So many wishes in a day,
create this lustrous , magic spell.
For here lies all daisies of gold
enticing my sight with reveries--
For I can almost watch the garden
of fairies swaying in light-dew
But daisies at night, surely know
how lonely my room wrapped in twigs.


Photograph #1 Contest by Linda
16th April 2016...

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decidedly despicable dastardly diabolical Dan
doing dismal, dour, demeaning deeds to frantic Fran
Forever frenzied fickle Felicity found her man.
Morose monochromatic Mel molding Typan.
Trixie totally tanked telephoning Tim’s tan.
Smart smidgets sensed silliness by name of Nan.
Nefarious, neatnik Nan ended up with diabolical Dan....

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An empty canvas on display
 alabaster slivers streaked pittings
  bleached pasty pearl incised matte
waiting;
 monochromatic fragments pale
  chaotic free flow rigid yet confined
released in inspirations somber
 light and dark
  contained insipidness
sketching life nightmare and dream fantasies.





For Ironic Zink's poetry contest on Life Poetry 9/12/19...

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The uncertainty of Winter
with its monochromatic norm.
The leery loss of color
the painful loss of warmth.

The sharpened edge of white
the transparency of cutting ice,
the indeterminate length of night
leaves man to his own device.

Even the occasional shimmer
of sunshine lends only harsh relief
though death will end life’s cycle
rebirth will soon end grief....

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An artist am i 
Human flesh my canvas
Blades my brushes
Mesmorising red lacerations my monochromatic palette
Soul demolishing agony my inspiration
Anguished creativity my flesh eating demon

Until painless perfection

Horrific scars my magnificent masterpiece
Annihilating criticism my only praise from this dispassionate world
Initiating the relapse of brutal expression again...

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Why I ask would I wait for spring
laden with the vibrant symphony?
If velvet green curtain is all it brings,
with lark and jay playing the same melody!

Why would I revere the palette supreme,
the strokes of the brush divine?
If all of us were tall, light and lean
with perfect pearls in each smile!

I know why there’s no beauty in bloodshed
Because it’s just monochromatic red!...

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The engorged sky billows,
a monochromatic delight 
of soft tones ...
a lullaby 
of tissue paper edges
fragile as a primrose.

The bashful sun blushes
sending pastel light through notes
of grey to white
soft, velveteen. 
harmonies overlap 
shadow less, spiritual.

Ah, the sweet octaves
of visual light defrayed by motes
of earthly ash
upon the sky
bring such joy to mankind 
fragile as a primrose....

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a monochromatic blend of sea and sky
sullenly ashen gray
chills more deeply as a biting wind
carries stinging salt sweat
from foaming horses
driven headlong to dash
in an explosive jujitsu
death on the rocks
and neatly dissolve visions
of yesterday's aquamarine tide pools
and the gentle surprises of life
amid stone and kelp
and this image too will transition
becoming tomorrow's Kodachrome dream...

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Streamers in the sky, 
etched deeply as they contrast 
against the pale blue, 
breaking up the monochromatic 
ceiling with its white streaks, 
a criss-crossing interception 
trying to erase each other from above, 
a temporary display which lasts for 
a few hours until determined clouds 
decide to camouflage the unwelcome 
intrusion by upstaging with their 
slow-motion dance of drifting cotton balls.



March 5, 2017...

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Pristine crisp, clean morn

Crescent moon floating above

A monochromatic wintry scene,

Frosty crystals clinging atop 

Rolling, sleepy meadows,

Rugged white peaks all round,

Lush conifers – jet black, set against

Soft pastels of blue,

Venous deciduous with bouquets 

Of birds leaving their tops

Like petals drifting at will 

Upon a lazy, summer stream

Afar, wispy crimson marks the 

Direction a lover rests, in wait of

Of a new year and new beginning...

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