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Umber Poems - Poems about Umber


Premium Member Umber
Through mist and rain I walk the pier Truly my favourite time of year Umber sky and umber ocean All chaotic frenzied motion. Heaving waves foam and spume Dance macabre without a tune Seagulls screech duck and dive Energised feeling briskly alive. Turbulent view is painted umber Seascape beguiles it's full of wonder This is my time my happy place Perfect freedom with breathing space. Writing Challenge...

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Categories: umber, ocean, winter,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member An Umber Fisherman
I, an umber fisherman, hover on this bamboo raft like a dragonfly over the aegean river. The gods below cast reflections of their salmon sun, languid in orchid sky before indigo palms and spruce mountains brocading a mute kingdom, onto my blank porcelain world....

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Categories: umber, color, imagery, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member In Umber Darkness
His audience floated while shadowed in umber darkness of the concert hall Upon his dusty piano, a spotlight glowed as his musical notes cascaded in a waterfall He faltered then stopped near the end his wispy presence slowly faded away I've given up the pretense of trying to pretend I still hear him as he sits near me to play...

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Categories: umber, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Umber World Gradient Chatters
Sprawl on a strong limb invisible to the sunlight dim Feasting in the summer‘s greens and sounds of fish swim Pond hums hymns with those that gaze and linger Across the pond time swiftly hinders Umber world gradient chatters while I slumber Cumber from feeding as I saw lumber I yawn as...

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Categories: umber, imagery, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Burnt Umber
i. she will break your heart. dont get too close ii. watch the sunlight reflecting in her eyes. burnt umber - like a pool of gold. (get too close anyway.) iii. hold her while she cries, even though it makes you uncomfortable. where do you put your hands? what do you say? kiss her hair and...

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Categories: umber, absence, heartbreak, love, memory,
Form: Free verse



The Colour Umber
The colour umber. The umber colour is not any colour but all three at the same time, and to be any colour like a plain old blue, well be so inclined, and to tell a colour from another colour you must never be colour blind. Yes umber is the colour that swirls inside my mind,...

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Categories: umber, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Umber
scumble the number dates you want to remember ...

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Categories: umber, happiness, nature, seasons, time,
Form: Senryu

Book: Reflection on the Important Things