Nocturne of Wounds
...A pallid night, a void's umbral reign,
Emptiness, a phantom, claimed the lane.
A dirge of noir, a melancholic strain,
Echoes, sepulchral, whispered in the rain.
The phantasmal memory, a haunting ...
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Categories:
umbral, anxiety, dark, forgiveness, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
You Can Feel Them On The Wind
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Umbilical umbrellica of umbral phantanes
"Anjelsmoth Banjitreel Naievae"
These are the spasmodic words you cause in me,
dare to ascertain in my exotic condition
of your cusping co...
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Categories:
umbral, art,
Form: Rhyme
Death Be Thy Raven
...Death be thy raven's blackened plume
And hunched in cape of sordidness
A tower's age of wealth's illume
Becries a pallid nothingness
Where scream escapes an umbral torn
Of ravaged souls in weep...
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Categories:
umbral, death, metaphor, moving on,
Form: Sonnet
Dinnertime Stories - Revised
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Cast of shadows, courtesy of candle,
Light fading unfolds the same tale at dusk.
Soliloquized retellings of scandal,
Lengthy but worthy, as faults to unhusk.
Memories gone cold, my t...
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Categories:
umbral, light, loneliness, memory, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
Human Sea of Garbage Poetrix
...Ocean in the umbral limbo
sea breeding of Plasticized fish garbage
it's not real hell but it seems...
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Categories:
umbral, abuse, allusion, appreciation, creation,
Form: Free verse
An Ancient Wondrous Being
...There’s an ancient
thing of wisdom
in a cavern
in the sea;
deep down in murky waters
lying, sleeping peacefully.
At times it will awaken
take a travel-contemplation
or perhaps a ...
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Categories:
umbral, animal, fantasy, myth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Day Night Life
...That's when day and night
succumb together
in a dark kiss ...
Umbral silence
wear the gray afternoon
of a fatal red ...
By day we do
the life
that at night sleeps ...
After the blue
exsangu...
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Categories:
umbral, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Free verse
Inspiration of a Sapphire Moon
...A sapphire moon has come to rest
upon evening’s blue lake crest;
faeries conduct concert crickets
and frogs sound bass among the thickets.
In umbral movement shadows weave
playing r...
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Categories:
umbral, planet, poems, poetry, space,
Form: Rhyme
Holding On To Nothing
...Sometimes I walk in shadow
Or do shadows walk in me?
For in their umbral, empty glow
The dark is all I see.
The distant light of hope appears,
A pin-prick in the night.
I find the weight of a...
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Categories:
umbral, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Lilac Dusk
...In dusk's umbral mist
phantoms hover
across August's white embers,
humming their pale lilac chant
through bare trees
chiming with fledgling icicles.
Fields of vestal amethyst
splay past fro...
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Categories:
umbral, color, imagery, winter,
Form: Ekphrasis
Translation of David Broza's Ay Amor Que Seria De Mi, Lyrics By E N Glass
...Translation of David Broza's " ! Ay Amor ! Que seria de mi ! " by T. Wignesan
( I'm not certain if this' s the original title of the lyrics composed by Eitan Nahmias GLASS. My translation is ma...
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Categories:
umbral, anxiety, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Lunar
...Lunar
Anisha Dutta
Full Moon closest to Fall is termed ‘Harvest Moon’
That’s the seasonal time to harvest
Next Full Moon the ‘Hunter’s Moon’ comes...
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Categories:
umbral, appreciation, beautiful, moon, night,
Form: Narrative
Ode To Shadows
...ode to shadows
as i peer out the glassed portières
penumbral visitations mock me; dare they
deign to scare this parched crypt of
adrenaline and cortisol, usurped by unquiet
scourges ov...
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Categories:
umbral, dance, dark, night, pain,
Form: Ode
Darkness Steals
...My heart quite deep within me quakes
when darkness steals the sky.
The night rolls out its raven cape
and stars from shadow, fly.
Gray threadlike clouds adorn the deep
and look down as to spy....
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Categories:
umbral, earth, moon, night,
Form: Quatrain
Shadow Trees
...Shadow trees
On gentle breeze, heave
and lip the edges of a sanctuary
Hallowed space, of union graced
In liminal hour
Protected
where dappled light plays cupid to our delight
Crepe ...
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Categories:
umbral, imagery, introspection, journey, nature,
Form: Free verse
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