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Slate Gray Poems - Poems about Slate Gray

Premium MemberCourtship Encumbered

...Nestled is the slender twisting trail canyon between timeless steep 
aspiring mountains and meditative sopheric sea waters 
The frail road deepens into lofty thickness further from the harsh...
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Categories: slate gray, deep, desire, journey,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberThe Sun You Forsook

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Peer at your reflection, see with their eyes,
the bloom of roses in soft, downy cheek.
Rigid, cold looking glass, no warmth to seek.
All life must wither and the moon must rise.

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Categories: slate gray, age, true love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberCrested Mountain

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The mountain was crested with snow
towering in the slate gray sky
Oh, how it made me wonder why?
Where I am going, I don't know!

A light wind whistled through the trees
Could answers be call...
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Categories: slate gray, beauty, mountains, peace, winter,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Climbing Vines

...The paring knife of winter
undams the dense brown
blood. Asps awaken and seethe—.

Twining stems sweat,
Irregular coralla dance
around your feet, pray at your altar.

Children of the soil, me...
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Categories: slate gray, tree,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMissing

...(In Nordic mythology Asgard is a location associated with the God) 

He darkened my skies to make way for the stars said she 
inside her lonely Universe there wasn't any "we"
and the musi...
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Categories: slate gray, analogy, faith,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberVisions Brewing

...Flights of fancy, a young man's game
    visions brewing, not one the same...  

  Dawns a slate-gray day, corrective lenses ordered
    horizon's blank ~ anticipation murdered...
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Categories: slate gray, dark, death, future, hope,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberLife's a Tease

...when wishes no longer come true
    the sky's slate-gray, never blue
 
  when the whole world is terrifying
    life's just a tease ~ I'm not lying...
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Categories: slate gray, blue, horror,
Form: Couplet

Quelled By Nature

...listlessly, leaves droop
withering in summer's heat ~
nimbus clouds gather

thunder's mighty roar
commands slate gray skies, "Open" ~
sparrows seek shelter

petals spring to life
quelled...
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Categories: slate gray, life, rain,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberYearnings Stillborn

...slate gray day's
nocturnal mood
souls sensitive
often brood

upon nature's
whimsy, caprice
yearnings stillborn
know no peace

darkness settles
in forest, meadows
'pon every plateau ~
dou...
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Categories: slate gray, dark, nature,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberStill You and I Smile

...Trees suddenly bare
  A sharp chill in the air
Ground hard as stone
  Hear the wind moan

Fierce clouds, slate-gray
  Herald a storm today
Autumn's playthings
  We've long put away...

Stil...
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Categories: slate gray, kiss, memory, storm,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberOctober Musings

...Gazing out my window
  Slate-gray day, wind whipping
Leaves uprooted, skittering along
  October surely gone wrong

Saw rain slant across the lawn
  Threatening skies all around
A day to stay ...
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Categories: slate gray, autumn, october, scary, weather,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberAn Old Friend Reborn

...Orange sherbet-streaked heavens
   at my window this morn
herald an old friend's return
   ~ newly reborn

For while the sun 
   in the sky has been
all this while, to my 
   uninformed eye
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Categories: slate gray, birth, love, sky, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Frenzied Symphony

...From evening's very ground it seems
  gathering swelling sounds
waves crescendo-ing, grandeur...

appear the first colors on the horizon
  streaks of magenta lighting up 
undersides of slate-gr...
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Categories: slate gray, color, music, sky,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberYour Grown-Up Mood

...The sky's slate gray
   It's rained all day
Though children can't go out
   They don't sit around and pout

Kids paint, they draw
   They learn to cook
Curl up with their favorite book

So, ...
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Categories: slate gray, children, emotions, rain,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWaiting

...Cold
                         Frozen
                     Snow and Ice
                    On everything
                   Slippery to walk
               Insulating the ground
          Winte...
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Categories: slate gray, seasons, spring, winter,
Form: Etheree

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