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Umbras
Umbras Poems - Poems about Umbras
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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John Anderson
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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I Am Anaya
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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Lin Lane
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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Ruben Alejandro Hernandez Diaz
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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Terry O'Leary
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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©
Jean Marble
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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Arch Ilagan
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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Jean Marble
Categories:
umbras,
confusion, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse