Short Spectral Poems

Sovereign, spectral,
Edible for medicine,
Flower with power....

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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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my love breathes amidst grief ~ kissing glass-winged dreams of spectral moon lilies…...

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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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dew crafts
crown on grass
gold flakes fall with leaves
fire furrow paves garden path
gilded trees adorn autumn’s spectral splendor
 
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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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A one-off was Barnett Newman 
spectral closeness was his plan
He created the art of the zip*
two colours in a mural clip

*see www.poetrysoup.com/poem/declarative_unit_newman_zip_1675988...

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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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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....

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Each and every morning
a dreamer awakens
from one dream to another,

realms
where the real is never real.

These words
are written upon
spectral ripples of
water,

by someone else
not yet alive. 
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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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i plagued my mind
by the waters edge
the winds came gently
the August people sneered
a smile beguiled though
as we became one
from grey to gold
west is behoven
our lives spent
spectral stories told
now we are alone


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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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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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In the shadowed alcove of memory, Where forgotten dreams curl like smoke, I wander, a spectral seeker, Tracing the edges of existence.

The moon, a pale witness, Hangs low, its silver gaze unyielding, As if it knows the secrets etched Into the marrow of my bones....

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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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