Short Sallow Poems

Oak Savanna steps
Ages will never sallow
Your glorious path...

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The green leaf rapidly goes to sallow
The name of the leaf is Bangladesh....

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Morning stretch of light,
Clouds sliced by blades of pearled rays:
Sallow beginnings....

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of sallow monday
still merry with jingle bells —
bright month of Christmas

12/9/2019...

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copper and silver

copper colored winds
 green leaves suddenly silver 
  sallow ochre shades

8/23/20
Haiku Color with Alliteration
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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summer afternoons

hot breath of summer
 even the dark shadows sweat ~
  solstice stupor

sweltering doldrums
 heat waves rise on sallow breaths ~
  only the bees buzz...

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smooth mellow always sallow 
never foolish but continue to repeating
this EVOL  stay falling for my
devotion and lies 
forever trying to spell together 
fighting to stay alive........

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boy with yellowed sallow skin
 seams thin  
have you seen him?
  shaken shaky hands with him?
 poured him greasy shots of gin?
    sang his soulless requiem?
 if you have 
    you won't again...

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Stillness.
Heavy and dank,
The tepid air steams
From the ground, confused and distorted.
Warming.

Silent.
The spectrum muted.
Sallow wind haunts, and
Cobalt tones eclipse memories of white.
Chilling....

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Gentle are the breezes, and gentle is the sun,
And gentle are the times in which we have a little fun.
So sallow not in solitude and slumber not in gray:
When gentle are the flowers, and gentle is the day.
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ILLUMINATION OF THE GALLOWS
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gallows
hallows
haloes
shallows

Sallow-sad priest, hallows gallows, bleak.
Saints enshrined in haloes ~ shallows shriek.

1/22/2018...

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Didn't like the taste of sorrow on my tounge
My bitter words, ashes in my mouth
Tears streak down my face, grey stains
on the sallow surface of my cheeks
Turns to salt on my lips
I whisper, every day is the same...

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After Dark

The moon splays its splendor.
Red roses somber in vase.
Subliminal shadows, peaked and sallow,
flicker like windswept, willow flame.
Inscription, on her headstone, illuminated.

10/14/2017 ...

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Does a classical-band ever howl?
It has been said a classical-band’s odd.
Yet as the coarse strippers revolved
And the sallow evening faded,
A civilian said she heard the classical-band howl
When the lips of dawn had matured....

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When I touch this place
     healing bluish sallow
now,
    rain spots crimson
on my skin
       but only to me.
Tears behind today
pause to listen
       for you in the quiet...

Silence pounds in the freezing rain.
x...

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Bungalow shrouded by sorrow
Ancillary space time doth borrow
Recycled dreams in dark basement furrow
Residual memories in corroded hope chest burrow
Embezzled ambitions in fallow vault sallow
Naked soul in hollowed-out walls doth wallow...

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Some special seasons seem sad
  oh-so solemn
Others -- sallow, slow, even silly

But X-mas season 'tis to savor
  soothing, silky, serene
sending us soaring skyward
  with its satiny, snowy scenes




       December 16, 2020
    Alliteration Poetry Contest
        Sponsor: Eve Roper...

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Sweetened fair caress
Dreaming sallow mountaintops
Bleached yummy delight

Mello crimson mix
Sensing scarlet falling leaves
Mouthwatering pleasure

Russet mixed within
Cheerless delighting nature
Succumbs emotions


written for
Sponsor Poet Destroyer ~ A  
Contest Name Neapolitan Ice Cream (HAIKU)...

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A homeless man on the street today
was hustling for some food to eat
it was very cold outside
his gloves were full of holes
lonely sallow eyes
ask for mercy
there is none
he's a 
VET!




       Lets take a minute and think about all the Homeless Veterans in America
     and pray for them this Christmas Season..........

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eyes of sunken hollow
pupil
skin stretched thin as tallow
stooping for a coin
so shallow
and falling
for that pretty shimmer
hammered with a faierie's splinter
pupil eyeing in the snow
so shallow the sallow
heart of him
with legs unsteady
and brain too heady
he let the pretty shimmer go
and wept to bleed 
bright red white snow...

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He’s a beaten man
His shoulders rounded
From the throes of life
From disappointment
To disillusion

His eyes sunk and sallow
His voice weak and hollow

His joy long lost 
Along with everything else
That makes life worth living

He’s given up
Can’t take any more
But still standing



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on July 7, 2018...

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Faithful in troth's plight, I wait for my knight
Bridal gown of white stained as tears alight
Still no groom in sight at strokes of midnight
Fireflies take to flight in pale candlelight
I glean no delight in their glow tonight
In sallow moonlight my heart grows contrite



April 28th, 2017
John Hamilton's Monorhyme...

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Grief comes,settles in the veins
And then come the firsts
Needling it to rise and erupt
Crash and clamor

First time as I land and inhale
The air of my land
Will it feel arid and alien
Without your breath mixed in it?

First time my sallow eyes 
Searching for a glimpse of you
In the collage of faces
Known and Unknown

Written on:02/27/2016...

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I don’t recognize myself;
this is not uncommon,
but he seems to me like a pale root
dragged-up to be exposed to sooty clouds;
one raw and unearthed by quarrying shadows.
A grainy tinge shades vacant eyes.
In the distance, tenement towers -
grey tusks in a monochrome sky.
A callus of light embalms a sallow horizon,
revealing just enough of the child
to spook the dead....

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He never made retirement—
palmed sallow watch.

Years bled bloodless,
stooped obliquely
in steel mills.

Mother said
he was tired—
so tired
as he drank
last days in liquid slurs.

The mill closed
after his death—
now both rustle bones,
remember russet dreams
of molten metals
faint as old billboards
whispering what once was
but never was
in rust-washed wind....

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