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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.


Human Sea of Garbage Poetrix
Ocean in the umbral limbo
   sea breeding of Plasticized fish garbage 
         it's not real hell but it seems...

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Categories: umbral, abuse, allusion, appreciation, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Day Night Life
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 ......

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Categories: umbral, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lilac Dusk
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....

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Categories: umbral, color, imagery, winter,
Form: Ekphrasis
Holding On To Nothing
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...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: umbral, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Ode To Shadows
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!
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Categories: umbral, dance, dark, night, pain,
Form: Ode




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