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Best Black As Pitch Poems

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Premium Member From Dusk To Dawn
A red sun pooling like a drop of blood,
coagulates at the edge of darkness.
And the night swallows shadows in a flood
black as pitch, within a...

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Categories: black as pitch, beautiful, beauty, dark, image,
Form: Sonnet



A Winters Night
There is no thing so peaceful
As a winters night in the woods--
A canopy as black as pitch, 
Spangled with the pinpricks of a billion stars--
Shimmering.
The...

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Categories: black as pitch, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desert Rose
I was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.

I had been traveling...

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Categories: black as pitch, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
The Escape Route
Down many of the coalmines in Yorkshire , Safety dictated that an alternative means of escape
had to be found just in case anything ever happened...

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Categories: black as pitch, heart,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Blue Hellion
I do not fear you, Blue hellion of Satan! From deep within the reaches of his evil den, your master has sent your frozen azure...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: black as pitch, dark, god, spiritual, war,
Form: Epic



Perfect Timing
Hurriedly through the night it came
Blanketing the ground in white
A storm of raging wind and snow
Late one Christmas Eve night

It came to us with little...

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Categories: black as pitch, holiday, naturenight, night,
Form: Quatrain
A Hollow Muse
There is a picture of you on my bedroom wall
Drawn by my own simpering hand
Of your divine features and veiled Oriental eyes
Scratched out by the...

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Categories: black as pitch, lovebeauty, beauty, love, may,
Form: Free verse
A Haiku Anthology
feathered wanderers
how far… what lands you espied
moonlight guides you on
~
feathers… how many
would it take to lift me… fly
a dreams worth… magic
~
the crow the raven
black as...

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Categories: black as pitch, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Faded Letter
On a dirty grey Monday morning a drizzle in the wind, a black car stopped,
From the car stepped an officer who gazed around looking for...

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Categories: black as pitch, courage, car,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Min Min Light - the Unexplained
On the Outback Downs of Queensland
There is the strangest light
I have seen it first hand
And it sure gave me a fright

I was camped out while...

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Categories: black as pitch, nature,
Form: Ballad
A Mother's Wrath
The wind exhales then breathes in deep
It swallows the leaves as the willow weeps
Swimming in all Her earthly sounds
No longer green, leaves touch the ground
The...

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Categories: black as pitch, nature, seasons,
Form: I do not know?
Quoth the Raven
Quoth The Raven

Under frosted blankets lay
On crispy frozen petals,
Sipping hearty beverages
Of dandelion and nettles,
As I gasp on misty chortles 
Reflecting in an icy puddle,
Deathly spirits...

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Categories: black as pitch, raven,
Form: Rhyme
The Day the Sun Turned To Stone
the day the earth saw no light
the day the sun was dark
when the moon was black as pitch
the day we gave up.
when the sun turned...

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Categories: black as pitch, sad, day, day, earth,
Form: Free verse
Days
Miserable grey, damp wet Days
Days shorter and winters Long
Long bleak dark Evenings
Evenings as black as pitch.

Bright frosty cold Mornings
Mornings glistening in the Sun
Sun shines cold...

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Categories: black as pitch, seasons,
Form: I do not know?
Wealth
Wealth 

"20 People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish. ” Psa 49:20 NIV

A man who possesses riches
Without accompanying understanding
Will...

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Categories: black as pitch, faith, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

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