Best Black And White Poems

POTD 7th Mar 2018

I trust you like the music video clip which enhances the poem

Like dark molten honey caressing her tongue
and soul food for taste buds addicted to caffeine
Coffee has its own excitation
The book has lost its charm
 The fault lies entirely with the tree...

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I am like an avalanche slithering in shivering angst,
free-falling into an abyss of an aching era,
where luminous lakes reflect pixelated regrets,
for time throws my canvas into splitting helplessness,
and mind plays tricks in aimless frequency, 
framing toneless tenors within paralyzed psyche,
pushing and pulling ivory strings of...

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Seduce me in Black and White
You reach toward my face
and touch my lips
Tracing the slightly raised pink curve of them
gently - lightly - before
the urge to kiss me seizes the opportunity
Surrealistic sensations immortalize
as our lips seek and lock
Interchange of strange, new emotions
flow as our tongues...

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United Colours: Black and White
Sponsor: Silent One


Your tune
sweeps me
so high
and free
but then
I hear
B sharp
with tears
and in
sweet trance
I swoon
in dance
with your
souls notes
while your
voice floats
on the
soft strings
as a
bird sings
you still
move me
with black
and white
grand keys

***I used picture number one for this poem***

~Date Written: March 6, 2016~...

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In so many shades of black and white, I find you after all these years;
leaning against that old weathered clapboard schoolhouse,
high on the hill overlooking the Fundy Bay, 
and again, I inhale the fragrance of those wild sea salt roses
and feel the ocean mist upon...

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I have some photographs in black and white
which show my life when I was just a child.
That bygone era long ago took flight,
but pictures of it in my mind are filed.

How fitting that my photographs depict
the drabness of our time in Washington.
No dazzle in the...

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Black and White


Black and
white keys,
graced by
skilled hands,
deep heart
and soul,
bring joy
and peace
to ears
that hear.
Hands are
the gift
that dance
on stark
black and
white keys,
to share
those tunes
which fill 
our minds
with bright
tones, hues,
tints, void
of black
and white.


Sandra M. Haight

~2nd Place~
Contest: United Colors: Black and White
Sponsor: Silent One
Judged: 03/10/2016

Rules: 25 lines  Each word...

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What I’d give to wake in the morning and hear those church bells ring
To turn on my old black and white and hear Gene Autry sing
Turn back the time to simpler days with Roy and Dale too
Wait for the Late Show and watch the antics...

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Nothing is ever black and white, 

Definitely,
...I think.

Who am I to speak - zip it...
...
...for now. 

I'm not going to lose my head over it.

Well I won't
...but she just might.

Wrong guy.

...

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Love me in Black and White

musical intro

From the keys of your heart a melody rolled back the night
illuminated the sky with its symphony of lights
and fired new stars in the firmament,
each a budding soul, a firework
of colors spun within the
black and white keys
of your heart.

lyric...

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His moods
Change fast
But they
Don’t last
That long;
From low 
To high
A song
Or sigh
That comes
With deep
Sad flow
A touch 
Warm glow
So soft
Which speaks
Of love.
Then peaks
To sharp...
He thumps
The key
Stale, flat,
Heart stark
Weak beat...
Pitch dark.

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(25 lines, 2 one-syllable words per line)

#1. piano keys
Contest: United colours ~ Black and White 
Sponsor: Silent One
Placed...

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with youthful passion
she quivered under his touch
they soared together

in old age
he longs for her response
chords of chiaroscuro 

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Visual 1 (piano)
A Collum Lune Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nette Onclaud
Placed...

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Black and White – 3-18-24
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Black and White

Black and white come in focus -
Absent of prime –
A slice of life exposed through the lens,
A flash-dance of story, a masquerade ball.

No sunrise of sepia - clouds absent of platinum,
Lavender drained from lilacs, sky robbed of blue,
Red-orange stolen...

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Life is in pieces of black and white 
Like a chessboard 
The moonlight shines through darkness of night 
Like a barcode 
~
Noah chose a raven, then dove 
Bad luck or peace?
A bride in white dressed in pure love 
Black mourn decease
~
The penguin and the zebra...

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Life as a child was full of hues,
Of sparkling reds and brightened blues,
‘Coz the distinction of color had not been made,
The foundation of racism had not been laid.

However, things began to change as we grew,
‘Coz Black & White became the only colors we knew,
Makeba was...

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