Short Penumbra Poems

Shadow shelters me
A penumbra of cover
my sanctuary...

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Trace the penumbra
For silhouette shapes the form
Into clarity,...

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Penumbra, It's when day and night
succumb together
in a dark kiss......

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colour of the trees
on the edge of green high peaks
view the cyan haze...

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Shrouded penumbra
   Seconds shatter dawn's chilled gasp
        Moments remain mute...

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pains insist the pen
to paint - penumbra of life;
flashbacked halcyon..

04.02.16...

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...and the angel covered his 
eyes with another world's light
for her penumbra was not
enough to perceive....

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Obscured Penumbra
Captive spirit....intriguing
A step , intimate ?


  "Leave me hanging"
A Gareth James Contest...

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I am a Virgo, on cusp of Libra.
My heart and mind stays in a penumbra.
My first words were these, so told.
“Me do it me self”, so bold.
I was strange in school, I loved algebra






Male...

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Poetic Form :: Paiku

Umbra

Innermost
core
part of shadow.
~x~x~

Penumbra 

Space where part
of
light source obscured.
~x~x~

Antumbra 

Seen bright ring
round
eclipsing source.
~x~x~
...

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A penumbra of lightning
grays your belly,
a huge melon
framed in leaded glass windows.

It grows
as we move in night's soft storm,
air piquant with rain, legs
petrified tree roots
in this patch of bed,
farmers in the night
      coming back to the land....

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inky black night
stars brightly sparkling
earths giant shadow
moon slowly fading

dark shadow spreading
a total lunar eclipse
a rare winter solstice
not to be missed

finally total coverage
only one light to see
a bright orange penumbra
meant for only me...

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Red
Lips
Painted
In the round 
Mirror was the last
Farewell to the love loyalty 
Betrayal as a stab in the back compared with a
Black hole that sweeps you to an unknown place covered with penumbra and dubiety









Fictional
Nayda Ivette
3-21-2016...

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walk your ways,
            friend...
        love your birds,
         grow your plants,
          lights up the penumbra...
        Believe, your fight
              is fair...
         your word enchants...!
          Be yourself, always... 
          Dear Poet Poetess !...

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The efflorescent dream to imbue
my opulent languor,whose ripples
vestigial,untoward,hissing,waving
the dalliance quite sneaky peaky.
Is it the murmur of a mellifluous song
yet to be sung by the divine entity!
Is it the penumbra of an ethereal beauty
soothing my bosom with its eternal charm !...

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Pelting shapely pebbles into the lucid lake,
Lonely, among daffodils and golden mandrakes,
And rejoicing the dance of silver flakes,
A delicate penumbra catches his fancy great,
And in a sweep, away, his heart does take.
Ruthless in love and incredible in stake,
He dives deep down,
Into his own grave....

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Their art is not less enticing 
than a Renoir or Botticelli,
but the light of their charm is vacuous.
They love that backlit glow
if it highlights only upon them,
but that glitter is only a penumbra.
Goslings have more light
as they follow
a glimmer of imprinted blood.
Snails exude more illumination....

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Aqua's Kind of Blue in Green

Cool white edge wave frill
Floats over aqua's blue green
Deep blue penumbra

First posted 30/1/2015
Haiku did not originally have titles, they were numbered instead,
From what I originally learnt about the format.
Aqua M poetry.
"Kind of Blue." Miles Davis.
I love listening to Jazz....

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at last...

      into the sunrise sea

         of my  mellow sunset, 

            I shall wade, I shall sink ,

               deep into  the penumbra
  
               of an old, oblique horizon, 

            and only then shall I be 

         blissfully nothing again,

      like I truly was

at first......

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Amidst the darkness of the night
  Devour a deaf silence nigh
Gazing at divergent penumbra
  Like a reflection  of nostalgia

A seemingly mystical instinct
  Like a metaphor of an angel
Ever guiding, ever attending
  I'm amazed and mesmerized


03.22.16

3rd placein "Night Silence"
standard contest...

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PENUMBRA

A semi-hidden place
Out of the limelight
Hovering in shadow
And almost unseen
But still a dim copy
Sometimes cast large
And sometimes not
Its own shade of grey
Moving in synchrony
An indistinct identity
As if self-conscious
Yet knowing its role
To echo and follow
Like its black cousin 
Faithful until it’s dark...

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May the light
of living truth dispel
the penumbra of decay within us;

   may the winds
   of hope blow away
   our dank isolation from ourselves;

      may the warmth
      of goodwill thaw out
      our ice of hatred and prejudice;

         may we still hope,
         believe and pray
         despite and even because of these....

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Water beneath bridges is always made to move 
below the penumbra of our blessed moon. 
She flows freely through the mouth of its enclave  
taking with her every notion of solidity; 
I stand here firm as a rock watching her pour herself out 
she slows my senses as she extinguishes my 
burning thoughts, and makes me think of  
Superman !...

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Swiftly falls the setting sun
Penumbra silhouettes dart
Shapes ghostly 'pon cobblestones
Dark recesses do enclose
Trickling moonbeams circle round
Little boy's shadow does grow
Quiet thought~ ~he will also  

Inspired by: Nette Onclaud
Contest: Silhouette Of A Heptagonet
Written: November 09, 2014
Author: Sara Kendrick...

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You're the one I remember,
Whenever I am sombre:
Our group's unique member
Adored by a great number:
Our home town's full number...

You race to peaks, not clamber,
Reach goals fast after slumber
After beer: urine amber!
With your heel crushed a mamba...

One to watch from September
To Christmas' December
Which club would you dismember?
Not until a penumbra....

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