Best After Dark Poems

I was sitting on the back porch ‘bout an hour after dark
When I couldn’t help but notice a tiny pulsing spark.
I thought it was a firefly – It had that kind of glow
But I’d never seen the likes of it – what it was I...

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Nine o’clock dark
Stage for shark swim
Deep arc stakeout

Sailors phishing
Not squaring news
Sparing no one

Once debutante 
Vessel vaunt sinks
For daunt of men

Dawns a new day
Silent gray-blue
Sea fray absconds...

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I step into the bright sunlight
And I blink many a time, 
Just as I start looking around,
I hear the big clock chime.

Sighing heavily, I turn around
And step back into the dark,
Nervous and tense I glance ahead,
My path a question mark.

Confused and sad, I fall to...

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Gardens – After Dark

Buddha sits stoically observing his garden.
The Gnomes snore as the Fairies toss and turn
asleep on the soft petals of flowers.  The impish
Pixies party with the flashy fireflies.
Nocturnal seekers. Mice, forever paranoid,
scurry to and fro in a break even carbohydrate burn.
The raccoons,...

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After dark I sit.
Quietly waiting for you,
To come back safely.

It has been six months.
I can't get you off my mind.
You are my one love.

You are my soldier.
You fight for me and my country. 
You have a pure soul.

Though you save many,
You also are a killer.
A...

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Neon lights penetrate into the curtains and shed a colorful blast on the darkest of canvas. Leftover food scattered all over the ground. Random newspapers crumbled into a ball at the corner of the room, with dead cockroaches’ legs sticking out. The stained blanket leaks...

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black wool is the night
the ice goes on forever
the moon is itself...

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in your presence 
where the force of attraction onslaughts
like dewdrops when they fall on roses,
i long to be.

in your eyes
where love beckons 
like a summer night,
i want to behold.

in your arms
where desire besieges 
like a maiden moon,
i can hide.

But deep down inside of you
where passion...

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Don't Get Caught in the Woods After Dark
By: Tom Wright
1/9/99

While walking in the woods one moon less night.
I stopped, but for a moments time,
to collect my thoughts, regain my bearings,
and purge my mind of fright.

Then suddenly an owl in a not too distant tree.
Gave forth...

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we stroll had food bold
than the feeling 
got us reeling
it was  lover start
near a big park
it was
WE HAD TO GO GO
IT WAS
OUT DOOR SEX
AFTER DARK...

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After Dark

The moon splays its splendor.
Red roses somber in vase.
Subliminal shadows, peaked and sallow,
flicker like windswept, willow flame.
Inscription, on her headstone, illuminated.

10/14/2017 ...

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I like walking in the park just so long as
it's not after dark 

Because when it is it bristles with
a sordid air of unease and other worldly
risk

So much so even the familiar leaves strike
trepidation and turn giants into fish-moths

And what lunar light is not eclipsed
bends...

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As the night falls, nature 
calls. A body so delight, 
a touch that lights my night. 
I feel her needy hands
wondering in the dark 
trying to park upon me. 
She reaches out for me, 
wanting and needing me 
to make her weak. Softly 
her fingers...

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In debonair, burnt-orange, fur cloak
You trot your preened tail in front of the men folk
Nose pointed skyward prowling for a free dinner after dark
Your prickly ears snare every sensual bark
Squinty eyes reflect the sleekest of movements
With soft, silky prance; you parade your flossy accoutrements
Until spotting...

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It controls me, I can’t drop it,
It’s a constant battle I can’t drop it,
It’s become a battle, I can’t quit,
It’s taking over my body, bit by bit,

The scars fade, but the memories don’t,
I want them to leave, but they just won’t,
Something that won’t heal,
The only...

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