Shadowy Tales
...Shadows are unforgiving,
stark in relief,
dark in infill.
These stiff hollow silhouettes
of gutted entrails
follow us around,
lacking the detachment
to avoid being brutally honest
about our ...
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Categories:
umbras, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Red Moon Rising
...Red Moon Rising
A beat of my heart skips
When I hear of the event lunar eclipse
Blood moon illuminating Earth’s umbras
Dust and darkness overwhelming auras
Yellow and orange glows hindran...
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Categories:
umbras, analogy, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Tossing Hand Grenades and Bullets
...Off and on they signaled, always in rapid fire
casting munitions across my window blind
A garish platoon of aggressors engaged in war
all tossing hand grenades at my haggard mind
Their ...
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Categories:
umbras, angst, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Wayfarer By the Moon
...Walking by the moon,
Adventurous traveller
Passed by and went to fly high.
Leaving past behind;
Leaving silent, lonely roads.
Nothing more left than moonlight...
Umbras going by
Towards the ...
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Categories:
umbras, allusion, imagery, light, moon,
Form: Sedoka
Silent City - Part 3
...Continued from Part 2
Beyond the suburbs, farmers’ fields (where donkeys often brayed)
inhale gray gusts of barren dust where living seed once laid
and in the haze a scarecrow sways, impaled upo...
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Categories:
umbras, angst, life, war,
Form: Rhyme
Shipwreck
...I boarded as a martyr,
not to play with scarlet sins
convinced my way was chartered,
I'd be safe in holy folds
but patient, pregnant umbras came,
their membranes black and blue,
all bred at s...
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Categories:
umbras, introspectionwords, sad,
Form: Free verse
I Am Black
...i am black,
and the shadows of my hair
become needles that sting the soil
during midday.
i suffer the torture of the heavens,
of Helios and the legends of the air.
they dwell above my being,...
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Categories:
umbras, mystery, people
Form: Free verse
A Hangover Remains
...I blinked, denying somber skies,
that spared no light between her lips and yours
but patient, pregnant umbras came,
their membranes black and blue,
their countless seaborn numbers bred
to consec...
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Categories:
umbras, confusion, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse