Short Undertone Poems

Baby blue color
The prevalent undertone 
In the mid morning 














Nayda Ivette
1-20-2016...

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The beauty of isolation,
  the magic in being alone

A singular attraction, 
 —sagacious undertone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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snide remarks 
became the 
indirect undertone 
of all conversation 
bringing with it
it's underlined 
hidden insulting 
insinuations of 
lack of worth 
within this present 
incarnation...

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Please don't kiss Grandma
With your wrinkled worn out skin
Your breath like stinking ashtrays
With an undertone of gin.

I really love you Grandma,
But when it's time to leave
You always try to kiss me
And it really makes me heave...

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A winter's night is different
    snow's mantle o'er the ground
  Noises muffled, birds unheard
    few folks out on the town

  This quiet creeps inside my home
    steals into my bones
  Instills a soothing peace in me
    grateful calm its undertone...

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To see how you motivate, 
you represent all that I admire; 
Drew a line through any doubt,  
fuel to see the lighting of your fire; 

Zone of self confidence, 
lone wolf but willing to share, 
Undertone so very patient, 
showed me you’re beyond compare....

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Mild murmurs,traced undertone,
Small voive within to each is shown;
Discreet,for us,listen,hear
Timely on cue,dispelling fear.
Delicate in shadowed signs
Hints,rustle in the mind;
Prompts,alerts spur to remind;
Super-natural,transcendental
In quiet whispers...gentle....

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Mild murmurs,traced undertone,
Small voice within to each is shown;
Discreet,for us,listen,hear
Timely on cue,dispelling fear.
Delicate in shadowed signs
Hints,rustle in the mind;
Prompts,alerts spur to remind;
Super-natural,transcendental
In quiet whispers...gentle....

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Mild murmurs,traced undertone,
Small voice within to each is shown;
Discreet,for us,listen,hear
Timely on cue,dispelling fear.
Delicate in shadowed signs
Hints,rustle in the mind;
Prompts,alerts spur to remind;
Super-natural,transcendental
In quiet whispers...gentle....

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Bullet shots rang
Like a church bell in my ear
And the screams sang
With the undertone of fear

The bell tolled
And the sunshine went away
And the thunder rolled
On that summers day

And the people fell to the ground
With a sudden thud
Such a sound
And out poured the blood...

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instinct
      over thought
lyrical expressions
                           emote
to pause
            awhile
  listen

the winds
           of euphony         revealed
an undertone
an esoteric
                 sensation 
to tickle the ear
so
silence
           can sound...

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aspen
    trembling
heaven
    upon wing
alights
   to sing
lit
by sparkling
       eyes
casts
shadows
one by one:
     my poverty
     sighed sotly
    and could not
    sleep
such
painful
breath
     void of
     start or stop
     hope and fear
in
  an 
     undertone

part 1FP  inspired by Cristina Rossetti Old world Thicket...

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The dreams of anger
Wake me in frustration
Though it was not real
I feel it was revelation

Based on a true story
Situations that I’ve seen
A familiar undertone
That really bothers me

My eyelids flipped open
As I awoke from the dream
Ready to unleash my anger
I had to calm down and breathe

Breathe easy relax
It’s not real it didn’t happen
But it feels real to me 
Because to me it happens...

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legend has it
all right about you, down to the last bullet
of how you sang through grenades
at boulder-lashed, whitewash-loaded rivers
dissolving mountains
with a charm you merely hinted
from summertime abroad
quiet 
while I summon your demons
quiet
while I load your gun

you could have been anyone of us that life
but your song had an undertone

and

boy
did you sing it well...

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There is the undertone of a haunting melodic presence
unheard by others because she wants my attention
I do not immediately recognize her lamenting song
however her voice is unique and cuts to my reptilian brain
My heart keens to her presence, there is a sorrowful joy
I have not heard her song for over twenty-eight years.
It is a day for listening and appreciating her ethereal efforts
Proof that spirit can return to this side of the veil....

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In the midst of each starry night
I lay upon a bed of meadow grass
Moonbeams provide ample light
To watch the world silently pass

In the night I enjoy the gentle hush
It's a time when I pray in undertone
In darkness there is no need to rush
I welcome the solitude of being alone

I revel in wonder when night is still
A nightingale sings a beautiful song
I close weary eyes and drink my fill
In dreams the night is where I belong.


6/13/16...

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Beside the sea I stand alone
The water speaks in undertone
There’s in the air melancholy 
I stand alone beside the sea.

The sky is veiled in shades of grey
My frame of mind in disarray
This train of thoughts has been derailed
In shades of grey the sky is veiled.

This time of year I think of you
Your presence missed, and then on cue
Emotions spill with every tear
I think of you this time of year.

- - - - - - - - - - - - 

© 26th June 2020...

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Respiration flight,
Brought forth breezy delight,
Harmory shading,
Colorimetric dream scene,
Jealousy earth can never exhibition.
Dancing cheeks,
With smiling beneath,
Tears from the flurry,
Leaving color-print kisses.
Feeling the touch of every undertone brought my way.
Romantic settlement,
True indeed,
No!
Awake I must!
Opened eyes to see the world of now.
Beautiful thought moments,
Only left,
Reserved for days to come that beings darkness....

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AURAL VERSE

An intimate moment,one mind to another as spoken verse aloud. Thus our distinctive dna drifts on the winds of euphony, unique and individually sealed, revealed in pause and undertone.
It continually strikes a contemporary chord of unconscious expression, an esoteric  sensation from within ,uncontrolled words, the taste lingers long ‘til washed away on the tides of tomorrow by the pressures of today.



Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2013...

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Undertone 
 

Whispering breeze 
From the smile of her 
Divine blossom 
Cleaved the solidity 
Of my melancholy life
And allayed my ache
That captured my heart
By mesmerizing the devil of 
My Achilles' heel 
My unknown myself 
And transformed me 
As a hedonic to ramble  
In the garden of joy; 
Then, I kissed on her cheeks
And whispered into her eyes
To not to leave me, ever,
And to live with me forever;



R K Chowdary Jasti
@all copyrights reserved 
22.02.2013@8.59pm...

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From the darkness of the eaves,
bathed in evening's undertone,
something's seen among the leaves -
something made of meat and bone

Bathed in evening's undertone,
something tries to slow it's breath
Something made of meat and bone,
sensing sudden, silent death

Something tries to slow it's breath
Something's seen among the leaves,
sensing sudden, silent death,
from the darkness of the eaves

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04/22/2020
Prompt #1...

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As a river flows into the sun, may a spirit flow 
Its appalling morality, the divisions it has created 
The mind knows without it sacred 

We take life in your painting us 
Even drawing out of oblivion fades 
Assures incessant sorrow 

Tied in a single garment of destiny 
Disobedience to the messenger, an undertone form 
Deepest place in our soul 

If only I had wings like a dove 
Lift up the stone, and you will find me anew 
He utters a vote, the terrain moves...

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