Short Monotone Poems

In monotone,voices of golems wail,
On chamber walls mildew spreads.
Gray's now, its mural shade....

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Pathetic watches C-SPAN at home
the monotone drones of your leaders
the New World Order
silent, the people
in their hearts lies change....

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unleashed
  I may waiver
  satin spoils
  are new to me

yield,
  your monotone salute
suckling praised
  a freedom from fur
  the hunt is mine
  devoutly...

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Ring a ding the ice cream truck is pealing
the monotone of a rut day to trap the rat

no amount of cheese will make me budge
the beauty of a flight to orbit the universe....

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Cold is winter in shades of grey; monotone scenery.

Welcome sunlight lends orange and yellow to a scene and paints snow white with blue hues.

My holly tree lends green and red while my spruce waxes blue....

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THE WATERHOLE

Two elephants merge
at the waterhole ~
entanglement of trunks

one emerges as
the gray-fountain leader ~
heavyweight of the dusty road

two images wane
in monotone gloaming ~
wispy clouds of dust

8/27/2017...

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"Here am I, 
finally alone"
says this gravestone
placed on my bones.

I wonder why...

How long I have to sigh
under its monotone
grave good-bye?

***

Just a poem, nothing more :)

May 25, 2017 
Copyright © Darren White...

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I am jealous of death
its resolute presence and confident action
Its darkened cool and its infinite existence

When I pass like whispered winds in forgotten winters 
death will sullenly play its monotone mandolin of time
...expecting no one to listen...

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In a horrible dull monotone

Bobby spoke, and his girlfriend would moan,

“No kisses from me,

dear Bobby McGee

till you first kiss the old Blarney Stone.”


Written March 15, 2017 for
Kim Merryman's Luck of the Irish Limerick Contest...

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Confused and often left alone,
usually for crimes unknown,
no dialtone on the telephone,
prayers prayed in monotone.

The Earth revolved under our feet,
while cracks widened in concrete,
we sensed our world was incomplete,
as they wallowed in deceit.


©Danielle White...

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I've had enough of songbirds
they don't speak for me
and the specialist keeps me waiting
in a monotone room for waiting
and the windows are too fish tank 
with the fish all looking in
wait, I think that's me looking in
as the therapist finally calls
but I left hours ago, a bird in song


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Familiar storm - stampeding, impeding,
drawing in colder days, lighting up
monotone skies, winterizing holiday rise.

Thoughts of yesteryear - their existence
unclear, relegating nonsensical notions,
subjugating my mind - celebrating life.

12/18/2021
Bite Size Poem #30
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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will to be diff’rent
fractals with cursive curlicues
cream-colored overalls

ostracized by nuns
and formal catechisms
with habitual fashion sense

now I’m in control
spinning like a pinwheel
with poetic enunciation

showed them, showed them all
i could take off my uniform
it’s monotone gray
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Vibrations in monotone
buzzing out drones;
sparks sinus pain relief,
such energy defeats the headache foe
with quickening blood flows.

A mystical tide running wide
among Yirdaki notes breathy throats
didgeridoo promotes tranquility like,
steamboats chugging out their waves of foam.
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Mindlessly meandering, lost in a cloud, this creature so pitiful, 
Unto the shell retreating, seeing ghosts though there is none;
Zilch! nothing is truly new to his endless, tiresome monotone
Akin to conversing with his own solitary reflection on the wall;
Kiddo, wake up, there is more to life than constantly whining....

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Monotone some would say
black and white this is true
but not like simple nothing new
sitting comfortably on the couch
a look of intensity
seriousness
as if almost reaching bliss
paws out front 
haunches bent
tail forthright between two back legs
he slouches
upon his head he wears a mask
like a bandit
as he is named...

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As the hardness of the ice runs smooth,
my inner body begins to move.
The concrete beliefs shutter
into a divine melody.
A once contracted monotone
is now in a polyphonic harmony.
Cracking and releasing 
Truth runs clear,
passing in waves and flipping streams.
All is one in this fluid dream.
A love song and a bath,
no longer any wrath....

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When the moon casts its silver on the sea
And the cold waves echo their monotone 
I remember because you walked with me 
Of a time when I didn't walk alone.

I felt the thunder falling from the cliffs
Surround the sand-dunes reaching out to sea.
I will pass through death and then thereafter
Before you walk these paths again with me...

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This night, I walk within empty echos
Of waist-deep weary fog, sinking to
The crumbling floor of futility;
Dripping minutes bleed through cracked
Rusty hours, as wafting feathers 
Of broken rest circle dreams
Devoid of lullabies - in waning monotone
pillow smothered murmurs
Cover breath of crushed voices
Not even stealing a skeletal whisper
Past my withered lips.

8/30/19...

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Notes 
Pitch not properly

Beat
Has no craft

Tempo
Has missed out

Counter point
Has lost its point

Harmony
Never took place at all

A gamut
Has abandoned its order 

Rendition
Is not in tune with composition 


Why is this? What is this?

Though 
A lot of people 
Do not say categorically 
I say 
In monotone 
“That is life”

I am in search 
Of melody...

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this monotone sky
is less full than i
this moonless night

lonesome is the star
that flickers
in the weave of clouds
obscured of darkness

i stand shapeless
in the absence of light
where shadows recede
hidden like thoughts
forbidden

i search
through the fog
of clouded mind
trying to find 
the lucent glow
of your soul
to usher me
through this obscurity
of nighttide...

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I see them in the dank and dark
advancing in the midnight’s glare,
slithering back from daylight’s spark.

I lie awake in dark and stare
at visions, long past memories,
taunting me with reality’s flare.

I see world-worn, torn tapestries
in monotone colors so drab
like cheap mottled accessories.

So sharp my past, a bleeding scab,
erased by morning’s vicious jab....

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You would think
something would be there,
rattling in your brain,
worth writing down.
And you would be wrong.

Chills in waves,
sinuses are raw,
pressure on the eyes,
cicadas buzz the ears
in a monotone song.

Pushing text around,
edits here and there,
delete key winning out,
nothing very strong.

Drag myself outside,
Missy needs a walk,
living in the moment,
bringing me along....

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What does peace look like
Is it trouble whisked away
By decree, resolution or motives
Wilting between friends and foes
Is it displacement, you or they
Setting or conclusion
Manufactured into escape
From heat or fret
Is it paradise found or lost
Kodachrome or monotone
Thrown into our laps
To suckle gently
Or is it the simple of simple
Like the silence, then rain
Played upon the sky emblazoned.

(6/24/08)...

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I'm walking the path my father had shown.
It's the only way that I've ever known.
This cold empty throne 
of iron and stone;
Going alone

This solitude chills and cuts to the bone.
It seems it's a weight I'll carry alone.
The "nothing" I've sown
Is now over-grown
Going alone

And so I stay haunted by ghosts of my own
Who lifelessly stare and deathlessly moan.
My mind's soundless drone 
speaks in monotone.
Going alone...

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