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Undertone Poems - Poems about Undertone

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...You tell me I feel like home, but not that it's solely in name. Your words are woven with lace-- delicate, flowery, light. They coil and crease, a nasty, distasteful undertone. Rough edge......

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Categories: undertone, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Observation Notes
...We seek wakefulness. What does Barbados mean to me? It’s the hot sun, broad-brimmed hats, and old khaki pants. It's robust men with warm, undertone skin that blends with the cultivated land. We seek ......

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Categories: undertone, allegory, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Sour Pickles From New Orleans
... His smelled of semi-soft cheese with a low moldy blue undertone I had no tolerance for his smell for compared to gym socks, ammonia, or barnyards, it was pure Eau de Toilet ! Aft......

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Categories: undertone, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Directors cut Cad Jax Spoken Word Vid Shoot
...(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates the speaker. A beat drops, subtle and rhythmic.) Cad Jax. Yeah, that name hummed with the city's pulse, a neon flicker in the back alley of your mind/ ......

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Categories: undertone, film, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Are Dream's Memories
...Softly the twilight calls my name, A touch of silver in your hair, Like echoes lost within a flame, Like footsteps fading on a stair. Did I not once, in days unknown, Walk through a garden pal......

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Categories: undertone, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Divine Salutation
...Behind the guise of the masks & words lay a truth concealed by clever nouns & verbs Now a fire's lit to match the lies with truth bearing an eternal flame lighting a wick with proof From the tree......

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Categories: undertone, introspection, leadership, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Two
...n icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night. This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.......

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Categories: undertone, character, dark, death, emotions,
Form: Prose
Premium Member pretend it's a poem
... as chopsticks for soup like a monkey eating scotch bonnets you have to want it good luck is a myth thin as a Theban cookie as your skin if you don't get it checked-off triggers in ac......

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Categories: undertone, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Narcissist
...It was in my younger years That you took away my heart Just looking for a conquest You tore it all part You. put yourself so far above me No mercy to be found Playing as the victim Finding joy......

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Categories: undertone, life,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member In a lucid dream
...In a lucid dream, which seemed so real, atop a hill I saw monks, in deep trance and although their eyes were closed, I could feel, dance of living light, in their bodies prance. Wonderment bein......

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Categories: undertone, dream, joy, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Green
...Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca Absorbing sunlight to a green synergy Blends in chloroplast creating energy. ......

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Categories: undertone, green,
Form: Abecedarian
Our Mother a Literary Translation of Humayun Azad
...We knew more about our mother. While, father was a revered persona , a bit distant. Our mother was always an undertone in front of father, an unrecognized delicate privacy, worn out Her lingering i......

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Categories: undertone, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Melancholy Me
...Melancholy me, since Kelly's gone away Far beyond the sea, and gone from everyday Stage by stage I've wept, but finally, I see What I must now accept; a melancholy me It follows and it looms, a......

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Categories: undertone, addiction, death, dedication, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Winter's Night Is Different
...A winter's night is different snow's mantle o'er the ground Noises muffled, birds unheard few folks out on the town This quiet creeps inside my home steals into my bones Ins......

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Categories: undertone, night, peace, silence, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn Trees-
...Our eyes are generally see brown, green or hazel They appear soft and muted. Undertone mustard rust golden brown TRUE autumns have warm, rich, earthy, golden undertones. The overall ap......

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Categories: undertone, analogy, autumn, change, color,
Form: Free verse

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