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Ochre Poems - Poems about Ochre


Premium Member I have drawn the maps of my sorrow, with borders of ochre and ash
I have drawn the maps of my sorrow, with borders of ochre and ash, rivers of longing winding like silver snakes toward the empty seas of unfulfilled dreams, the valley of abandoned thoughts, a cemetery of withered promises, and the desert of sighs, its sand made of words that shatter like glass under the weight of silence. In the center,...

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Categories: ochre, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tint of Ochre
Dawn gently woke the sun on this humid morn He yawned with splayed fingers of tepid light dappling brown cattails along the lake's edge and golden wings of a dragonfly ready for flight A tint of rich ochre glossed over the water suddenly rippled by strokes of a bull frog and a blue heron appeared for his breakfast Quietly, I observed them...

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Categories: ochre, morning,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The November Fashion Blog -- Quatrain
(Reviewed by a snooty correspondent) November dons her coats of warm terries, tans, a few ochres, but surely not bright. (Except for sneaky, red-coated berries, peeking from bushes, agrin with delight.) November's dress: pretty dull, never shines. We prefer October's boisterous charm. Branches bare, it's said limbs often recline; sunbathe to keep their tans, and also warm. Fashion designers often grow somber and turn November...

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Categories: ochre, autumn, clothes, color, fashion,
Form: Quatrain
Beauty of Nature
When the sun rises From between the verdant mountains, And above the silent valleys… It passes a tinge… Of light-yellow and white, Which delights the ones Watching this magnificent sight. The golden rays drive out the melancholy From the body… Which glitters under the sunlight. Flowers bloom, Honeybees and butterflies Flutter over the aroma. Caterpillars and earthworms wriggle and dance. Birds fly to touch… The golden spirit and blush. When...

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Categories: ochre, 10th grade, appreciation, nature,
Form: Free verse
Basest Traitorous Titan
I fought one piggish Titan and I won As if that devious Leech existed not; Sealing the very firy nose of his gun With ball-like rags to sap every shot. A long-lionized mogul of giant name Slew my low fists by a magic stroke; Vilest Judas glossing in pesty fame, I his two-timing fang spookily broke. I know not if such a...

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Categories: ochre, allegory, angel, anger, anti
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Warm Ochre and Muted Sage
Sunlight painted glossy ribbons in warm ochre and muted sage ripplings in soft pastel hues across the surface of a tranquil lake Between cane reeds they swam silken threads on the breakfast table of a lone Indigo heron standing with feathers and plume feeding at the break of day...

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Categories: ochre, beauty, day,
Form: Verse
Ochre Dreams
I Grey spaces, but the day has broken Hope rubs an eye, turns back to snooze Clear water in mason jar hold one life No frills, no leaves, ochre lotus intrudes ... Hopes falling into grey sleep II Sometimes a solitary dandelion defies All the cruelty, machinery of man, mowing all That stick out rebel-like in manicured lawns of his lives His dreams, his families,...

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Categories: ochre, adventure, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ochre Field
Ochre Field The ritual Of hailing Ra Begins anew each morning. Golden faces straighten to meet The first rays of their namesake. Dew-tipped petals Surround the ebony Cyclops As each giant flower awakens. They stand Vigilant in the field As blossomed monoliths of life. They sway In tune with Mariah, Waiting to entice the pollen seekers....

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Categories: ochre, creation, flower, morning, nature,
Form: Free verse
Yellow Ochre Sun
Into the sunset !4/05/2014 Yellow ochre sun In Vermilion sky What a lovely canvas Pleasing to the eye Cirrus clouds change From grey to red As wild birds fly To their tree top bed Red now changes Back to darkened grey As ebony night Is on its way There’s an eerie light From the silver moon We quicken our pace To get home soon Brown bats...

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Categories: ochre, day, nature, sky, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Yellow Ochre Pond
I used to dream of yellow mud, well more like yellow water stained with yellow ochre clay, so vast, in it I felt so good. In this I swam, just like an eel, in creamy dream of yellow feel; other people swam about as shoals of fish , or netted trout. Ochre pressed against my skin like custard spread on rubber thin, I spun...

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Categories: ochre, fantasyme, dream, dream, me,
Form: I do not know?

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