Short Umbral Poems
Short Umbral Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Umbral by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Umbral by length and keyword.
That's when day and night
succumb together
in a dark kiss ...
Umbral silence
wear the gray afternoon
of a fatal red ...
By day we do
the life
that at night sleeps ...
After the blue
exsanguine is extinguished
mirrored morning shines ...
It is not up to the world
say live
it's up to us to live it ...
Categories:
umbral, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, life, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
In dusk's umbral mist
phantoms hover
across August's white embers,
humming their pale lilac chant
through bare trees
chiming with fledgling icicles.
Fields of vestal amethyst
splay past frozen fences
and sepia skeletons
of summer grass.
I listen
to diaphanous lyrics
of a mauve moon
from my gelid porch,
throwing coffee
from my hot cup
to watch it freeze
in mid air
and fall like rhinestones
on the waiting ground.
Categories:
umbral, color, imagery, winter,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Sometimes I walk in shadow
Or do shadows walk in me?
For in their umbral, empty glow
The dark is all I see.
The distant light of hope appears,
A pin-prick in the night.
I find the weight of all my fears
Enough to block such light.
I reach out just for something,
But -- in this world of black --
I'll hold on tight to Nothing
Until nothing holds me back.
4/2/2019
Entered in 2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Mark Toney
Categories:
umbral, sad,
Form:
Quatrain
ode to shadows
as i peer out the glassed portières
penumbral visitations mock me; dare they
deign to scare this parched crypt of
adrenaline and cortisol, usurped by unquiet
scourges over lifetimes' rebirth?
steps shifting in the dark, familiar and
beloved; the shushing and stirring, commit
to draw me near; umbral amici and i
provide a panoply o'bosky trappings f'thee
a joinin' we, or off to obscure pastures
to wee thee pants for eternity!
Categories:
umbral, dance, dark, night, pain,
Form:
Ode