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Umbral Poems - Poems about Umbral

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



Premium MemberDeath 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

Premium MemberDinnertime 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



Premium MemberAn 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

Premium MemberInspiration 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

Premium MemberLilac 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

Premium MemberTranslation 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

Premium MemberLunar

...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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