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Tinctures Poems - Poems about Tinctures

Premium MemberRavens and Lilies

...‘When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.’ - Lauren Eden


lilies and ravens
dance together making mud puddles
thick as salve caked on deep wounds
stemming ...
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Categories: tinctures, betrayal, childhood, first love,
Form: Suzette Prime

Reflections of the past, visions of the future

...At the most serene place where peace is sown,
Our laughter mingles with the scent of meals,
We unite, based on stories we have known,
The telling of these fables still appeals.

Many days we sle...
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Categories: tinctures, cheer up, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Wild is the night

...There's an eerie feeling in the air tonight.
Voices in the distance seem full of fright.
Crisp cold winds that blow
chilling to the bone...
leaves rustling in the darkness, unknown.

Silence ev...
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Categories: tinctures, anxiety, confusion, dark, fear,
Form: Rhyme

Old Glory Has Something to Say

...Old Glory has Something He Wants to Say  
By – Roger White
The dawn’s first sunlight crests over the eastern horizon.  A midnight dark sky leisurely changes tinctures: blue becomes purple, bright a...
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Categories: tinctures, 12th grade, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Colors of Love

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Bursting shades of fire ember sweet desire 
an Orange Jubilee, bathing in the sun   
Wild charmed poppies, blushing  sunsets 
paprika colored dahlias blowing in the wind;
Nostalgic golden ...
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Categories: tinctures, analogy, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberUpon Waking

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“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like d...
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Categories: tinctures, gothic, muse, poets,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThe Quadricolour

...Written on 27 September For: 
No. 1244 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand

                                             The Quadricolour

                             Let us...
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Categories: tinctures, appreciation, independence day, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Lunar Phases of Deepest Thoughts

...Lunar phases of deepest thoughts
Fasi lunari dei piu' profondi pensieri 


The unwritten absence of your 
beautiful soul, before you entered my world—
I closed my eyes to the 
sparkling tinctu...
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Categories: tinctures, deep, emotions, faith, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberApothecary

...on endless summer days
   winter's feeble sun

 apothecary of toxic tinctures
   phantom of the night...
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Categories: tinctures, night, summer, sun, winter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRambling Poetry

...Poetry is tangerine and other potent or poisonous colors.
It is the breath you feel at the nape of your neck and
the strong caress of flesh on flesh, defying death.
It is most certainly Spring wit...
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Categories: tinctures, poetry, writing,
Form: Prose

The Call of the Grimoire

...
"The Call of the Grimoire" 


when Exalibur was retrieved 

from the rock, then foolishly 
and irretrievably lost 
in that dreadful battle most worthless
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Categories: tinctures, i am, light, magic,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberPlace of Respite

...Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes
and birds of the air have nests,
but the Son of Man has no place
to lay his head.”  Matthew 8:20 NIV

PLACE OF RESPITE

Cheek-tinge of pink daw...
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Categories: tinctures, bird, christian, color, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Contraire

...Contraire
by Michael R. Burch

Where there was nothing
but emptiness
and hollow chaos and despair,

I sought Her ...

finding only the darkness
and mournful silence
of the wind entangling ...
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Categories: tinctures, confusion, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

The Shadow of a Tree

...The sky, so overwhelming..
it simply beckons,
grabs you..draws 
you to its changing colors..

The sky shifts with the sun,
that skims across like a Winter
of Alaskan full moons
in the twiligh...
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Categories: tinctures, allusion, angst, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Prose Poetry

Charcoal Spirits

...A lone black crow
sits on a limb of a tree

amongst a crowd of trees
that surround the townhouses.

The trees' silhouettes 
are drawn on the brick; 

on the shingled roofs;
by the Sun this ...
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Categories: tinctures, allusion, appreciation, beauty, creation,
Form: Free verse

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