Thinking About The Kill
...A blood-dipped letter lies before me,
Wrapped in moth-ridden silk,
Written by your ghastly fingers.
The cold of another bleak fortnight settles in,
While crimson-eyed ravens rest upon cre...
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Categories:
umbers, dark, gothic, imagery, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Chandeliers In The Sky
...Hear our voice
From the east, west, south, and north
Hear our independence
This July Fourth
Like flowers in bloom
In the night
See the chandeliers
Hang in the sky
With crescendos and
Reds, b...
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Categories:
umbers, july, summer,
Form: Rhyme
The Gilded Season
...Summer's green vistas sang a farewell tune
as bare limbs gently swayed in a chill wind.
It swept o'er hills, beneath a harvest moon,
filching leaves; a theft it could not rescind.
Autumn is gil...
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Categories:
umbers, autumn, beautiful, color,
Form: Sonnet
A Bottled Garden
...A bell-jar, crystalline, as transparent as an aquarium
Vibrant colors burnt umbers tints glass atop the kitchen table.
No elaborate gardening, just gentle misting in the terrarium
Muted pinks, ear...
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Categories:
umbers, beauty, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
I Will Remember You Most
...I am not sure whether I am missing you or that you are missing life~
In Spring you like to smell the grass.
The flowers,
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Categories:
umbers, brother, memory,
Form: Free verse
First-Person Personal
...First-Person Personal
By Sy Roth
Here adrift wrapped in a coat of heebeejeebies
Fearful of using the first-person personal
Masking it instead by holograms of itself,
Playful non-entities cavor...
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Categories:
umbers, 3rd grade, allegory, angst,
Form: Free verse
October's Magic
...With chilling breaths, October's magic sighs
The pastel golds and umbers drifting bright
And all its wonder sparkling 'midst your eyes
To stoke the embers o...
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Categories:
umbers, appreciation, autumn, beauty, metaphor,
Form: Pantoum
Autumn Magic
...The day chilled rainy and gray
allowed the wind to sweep and sway
each and every tree that held tight its leaves
now released them to the slightest breeze.
Driving down the blackened road erodi...
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Categories:
umbers, autumn, color,
Form: Rhyme
dear Gustav -
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Gustav, how you pique the senses
captured passion's plural tenses
lovers twined in percale folds
caught supine with spattered golds
porcelain dolls in feta...
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Categories:
umbers, art, beauty, history, humanity,
Form: Ekphrasis
Far Away: the Heart's Craving
...I thought of “Far Away” as an escaping,
wild trees and flowers in all their rapt fury.
To be free of love and all its stiff draping,
fleeing dark emotions in a swift hurry.
Now I see br...
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Categories:
umbers, imagery, inspirational, lost love,
Form: Rispetto
Tick of the Clock
...E-very tick of the clock
L-ets us be in a hurry;
L-ife on earth is too short;
A-ll of us must not tarry.
I-n front of us we see
N-umbers of people outside;
E-ach chance we must take to snatc...
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Categories:
umbers, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Knock On Your Door
...L-onely night has turned
I-nto a morning sunlight;
N-ew dawn has broken,
G-ray is nowhere in sight.
K-iss the haze goodbye, as the sky starts to be bright;
Y-our birthday in February is on th...
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Categories:
umbers, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Seasonal Stretch
...Spring rises and is reborn
with a warm, glowing morning sun.
May apples, marsh daisies, wild purple, yellow and white violets
peek from the earth with round glossy greens and flowers.
Wild ...
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Categories:
umbers, seasons, new years day,
Form: Free verse
A Beautiful Creation
...A beautiful creation does exists;
for God has, in Jesus' kingdom, lain marble.
Numbers of pearls.
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Categories:
umbers, heaven,
Form: ABC
The Shades of Trees
...Reds, golds, and umbers
The trees all have shades of these
When Autumn does start
A lovely display they are
Smart groupings of radiance
Russell Sivey...
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Categories:
umbers, life, seasons, autumn,
Form: Tanka
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