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Best Penumbral Poems

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The Last Organ Grinder
Between paper-soft 
worlds of fragile 
imaginations, 
I float upon those
gossamer tulips 
that split every 
second of saccharine 
musings and 
eclipsed confessions, 
distinguishing all
photoelectric synonyms
of lachrymose...

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Categories: penumbral, dark, deep, destiny, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Show Me Television
The era of catatonic self-destruction has risen yet again from boulder-blocked caves,
Whose cavernous stalactite incisors drip with the blood of thorny crowns,
Worn in punitive irony...

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Categories: penumbral, addiction, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Red Moon
scarcely noted tinge of moribund intent
in stealth advances to dull selene’s 
full aspect with penumbral shade

luna’s wizened glow, its fate assured,
in grim surrender—stolid umbra
spreads somber...

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Categories: penumbral, moon,
Form: Free verse




Premium Member Shoveling I-Cycles
He said he planned to freeze to death.

Did he mean to have his body frozen?
Stored to hatch again later,
leftovers out of time's deep freezer of...

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Categories: penumbral, death, deep, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Atomic Apocalypse
The horsemen have arrived on their menacing mares,
Whose stiletto-hoofed horseshoes click-clack on an achromatic static; 
Silent staccatos inside an ultraviolet light.

As vidalian-dampened eyes drip viridian...

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Categories: penumbral, future, grave, holocaust, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Shadows
ode to shadows

as i peer out the glassed portières
penumbral visitations mock me; dare they
deign to scare this parched crypt of
adrenaline and cortisol, usurped by unquiet
scourges...

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Categories: penumbral, dance, dark, night, pain,
Form: Ode



Premium Member The Astral Entity
Once the dark of dilated pupils eclipsed my saffron sanguine irises,
Sucking the luminescent astral soma as does a tonsil to a virus.

A face of a...

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Categories: penumbral, evil, horror, psychological, scary,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sonnet of Paranoid Sonance
Sitting in silence 'neath cellar ceilings,
Creeping creeks crack in corners' crevices,
Whose acoustics are brushing my feelings,
With suggestions in sounds of a presence.
"Who goes there?" I...

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Categories: penumbral, fear, house, sound,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Atomic Apocalypse Shape Version
The horsemen have arrived     on their menacing 
             ...

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Categories: penumbral, dark, death, imagery, nature,
Form: Shape
A Poem That Happens
If I were a painter, no not that kind
But I am kind as I let you crack into a crevice in my warm-blooded heart,
I would...

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© Toni Orban  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penumbral, beautiful, beauty, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Social Trance
Along the stretch of an alley etched in cracked cobblestone,
Walks a conquered weary swain besides his penumbral casted clone.

Onwards he treads towards the recycled mill...

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Categories: penumbral, earth, social, society,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Pomegranate Gown
This Poem was submitted for the poetry contest "Jamie's interesting contest 1" sponsored by Jamie Pan, for theme #6. Reflections in a window.

Once while my...

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Categories: penumbral, day, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alphabetical Recovery
Angels and demons have fought inside my warring mind,
Battling between light and shadows in a penumbral bind.

Coruscating clashes of such a photon fury,
Divided myself into...

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Categories: penumbral, depression, recovery from, suicide,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Spring
Winter’s shadow begs for more,
Creeping towards the tide of penumbral shores.
Whispering in the frost of its breath,
It sighs recognized in the face of its death.
As...

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Categories: penumbral, seasons, spring, weather, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ghosts In a Ballroom
Inside an empty and abandoned ballroom of a massive sunken ship,
Ghosts waltz within the memories made before the ship had tipped.

Swirling in pairs of males...

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Categories: penumbral, dance, dark, death, life,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs