Short Spectral Poems

Gone
Horribly
Our
Spectral
Troublemaker...

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The moon hangs naked –
a cold, spectral crucifix
no cloud can cover...

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The cleansing auras
Burst with prisms of color
With spectral rainbows...

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More or less into pinks and blues,
But also love coolest spectral hues....

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Sunrise dances bright
Rainbows made of spectral light
Chasing off the night...

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nighttime’s magician 
levitating orange orb 
casts spectral shadows...

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Haiku 74
	
	
	sunlight’s splendid
	spectral ribbons between clouds
	summer storm clears...

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Blue mist rises on the lake,
As pale moonlight shimmers
The rippling lagoon with
Faint spectral shadows,
Ebbing slowly to the shore....

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Blue mist rises on the lake,
As pale moonlight shimmers
The rippling lagoon with
Faint spectral shadows,
Ebbing slowly to the shore....

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Skeleton Tree At Sunset

mangled phalanges
reach from haunched spectral shoulders
death screams at dusk

deborah burch ©
07/02/2012...

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sunburst sky blazes
spectral surge explodes spring buds...
butterflies start show

March 29, 2019
Syllable count : 5/7/5
Checked on howmanysyllables.com...

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Listen to poem:

Frothing, frigid fjords
Fling forth fine stippled
Salmon, streaking upstream.
Roe-rich fish, flashing
Fat and fulgent:
Spurred to spawn, to spurt
Then sputter -- spasmodic.
Spectral. Unspared....

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He dreams in electric themes
draping around the armchairs
he wheezes  down time

Across feral fields his eyes skims
the scenery
His shadow silhouetted by the evening sun
aware of the amolaly
recalling a spectral  youth...

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My beasts of the morning
Come shadowing,lurking
Into my soul they plunder
Mercilessly
Turning their leering eyes upon me
Gleeming their spectral bodies unto me
Mercilessly
And I know my beasts of the morning
And I serve them well...

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When
vague ghosts
and spectral mists
manifest fully clothed
garbed in period dress or suit;
my one question is, why aren't they naked?
Human beings have a soul but
clothes have
none.


(The Bell)


6/22/2021...

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A lonely house behind the park,
The place is derelict and dark,
And shutters keep us out.
I picture inside bleak and stark,
With spectral dogs that howl and bark,
And ghosts that walk about.

Jack Horne for Constance’s Haunted House contest...

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A spectral dream
to forestall
they can try
but can't prise my grip
from my tenuous grasp
of reality
in the dream
it's myself
i'm most afraid
and the night
is not my friend
when the ghosts
rise from the dead
and howl to keep me awake....

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fuchsia gold pink dawn
naturally it's beauty
sunburst in the bay
the hour of hush still rapture
melted colors drift to sea

at the verge of day
in the time of green tree songs
wading in waters
beneficent sunshine rays
in an age of spectral skies...

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Muse

As I sit here I wounder what it could be, 
this blank void of inspiration?

Your beauty eludes the masses, 
as your spectral light penetrates my lobes 
an electrical energy vibrates my cerebrum.  

Do I deserve such attention from such ethereal beings?...

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A world of sunshine 
Awaits the silver chirpy 
skylark perched on grey  scale branch 
as golden mornings 
usher in their spectral hue
that filter through the seamless 
mesh or float of rafts 
on green leaf bird house chant flock 
whose silken strain enchants me...

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I believe
the size of one’s soul
as it hovers in heaven
is linked to life
experiences.
No doubt,
expanded spectral orbs
     of mountain climbers
     and fighter pilots,
     world travelers and thrill seekers,
     parents and poets,
will almost be as large
as those of
readers....

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Romantic shadows of
Luminous love
Lend intense warmth
To a midsummer night as
Sensuous fragrance,
Shimmering moonlight,
Combine in nature's backdrop
While a quartet of flutes
At the water's edge
Enhances spectral mists and
Hushes soft laughter
For a moment of nocturnal tranquility....

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I awake
music vaguely opaque
among torrid strands of dna

inviting into the spiral spectral array
weaving to and fro in gregarious display

hypnotized, I can but shake my head
I stumble back to bed
prayers said

Charles Henderson for Night Melody Contest Aug 20, 2012...

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Shining brightly flashes of white light 
into spectral colours sparkle inwardly 

Atoms arranged within a crystal structure domed 
a gemstone takes shape measured from the clarity of beauty
 
Within diamond ultraviolet wavelengths transmit visible
jewel jubilantly crowned regally royal gift...

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POLTERGEIST

Sometimes the past seems very remote
— again, close as the hallway—
Tonight I’m looking over my shoulder,
folks I knew thirty—even forty—years ago,
friends and lovers— old enemies.
My room is full of ghosts,
quarrels, conversation of the absent, the missing--
a spectral hand on my arm!...

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