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Whispers in the Night
Your skin is silk, my fingers dance
As we entwine, our hearts take a chance
In the darkness, our love shines bright
A flame that burns, a passion that's right
Your touch ignites, a fire that spreads
Through every nerve,...
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Categories:
america, color, fun, youth,
Form: Other
January 1 Rose Bowl Parade
floats made of roses
kaleidoscopic colors
~ flowers in poses
...
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Categories:
color, flower, rose,
Form: Haiku
toilet roll
Categories:
allegory, allusion, color, cute,
Form: Monoku
Yaldabaoth embellished in his shadowsCaliginous eyes
Fearsome face of sickly white
Lion-headed snake
Embellished in his shadows
With flaming orange beneath...
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Categories:
animal, color, evil, horror,
Form: Tanka
Marigold“It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is you are flowering.” Rajnesh
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Categories:
appreciation, beauty, color, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Seductive ShadowsMidnight's mystery, she wears with grace
A black dress that hugs her curves in place
That makes my heart race,
Even by a lock, in her gaze...
Silky fabric, smooth as her skin
Invites my eyes to linger,
And...
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Categories:
color, appreciation, beauty, black love,
Form: Free verse
RaveA rusty old retro vintage bubblegum drop machine
Positioned next to me as I am seeing above me
Spherical lightbulbs and strobelights of flashing rainbow colours....
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Categories:
color, dance, imagery, perspective,
Form: Sijo
Sea of GreenMay is magical,
the garden is an ocean of color climb
every shade of green conceived
circled round the pathways of time,
long ago perceived;
to the right
dark juniper and pine, short and tall,
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Categories:
color, green, nature,
Form: Quintain (English)
an actor i knewAn actor I knew
I saw him sitting alone in the dining room
of a small hotel, drinking brandy with coke
his handsome face was bloated, and he was
deep in his cups
I told him of the Humblebee story...
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Categories:
anxiety, color, culture,
Form: Blank verse
THE POWERA leaf
A tree
A flower
All of nature
A stream flowing
Rain heavenly pouring
A woman
A man
PROVOCATIVE
A child crying
All in nature
A sunshower
Notice the rain
A RAINBOW full of sun!
A day full of rainbows!
The POWER!
Notice a furious FIRE
Hear...
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Categories:
allusion, color, fire,
Form: Free verse
ICICLESCelsius is minus three
icicles now we see
growing on winter tree
amid frosty display
aloft shrouded by grey
leaden clouds set to...
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Categories:
color, winter,
Form: Rhyme
As I amI could write really long poems
about the fear of growing old
about everything getting older and duller
like I've seen some people do
and they make poetry books too
but rarely do
they write haiku
instead they forget
everything that...
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Categories:
age, color, freedom, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Season of BloomLate June's musky days
and gardens tell their rapture
in colorful fumes.
Such feverish excitement
in season of bloom, verdant!
Scarlet and gold reign
'Til peach and plum take over
Pinks and blues follow.
Muggy days and heady nights
lit up by dark-blue starlight.
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Categories:
beauty, color, flower, nature,
Form: Tanka
Beautiful BirdsBeautiful birds come
Lodging in durian tree
In discrete colors....
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Categories:
beautiful, beauty, bird, color,
Form: Haiku
RosaRosa the gem of flowers
the queen of every plant,
in spring she wears her fineries,
her beauty the eyes enchant.
Her colours are so attractive blushing with every hues,
her aroma is so romantic
to...
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Categories:
beauty, color, flower, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Color Poems
Read wonderful color poetry on the following sub-topics:
black, blue, brown, green, grey, kids, pink, purple, red, rhyme, sensory, simile, skin, white, word
and more.
Definition | What is Color in Poetry?
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