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Best Black Diamond Poems

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Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Black Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery) 

Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely, 
Sinister...

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Categories: black diamond, body, death, history, lonely,
Form: Epic



Black Diamond
On the border of the obscure wastelands,
In the depths of shadows and torments,
Far beyond the land of Never Was, Never Will
Is a place where I...

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Categories: black diamond, art, beauty, dark, dedication,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Black Diamond Child
Black Diamond Child


Black diamond child with hopeless eyes
In your frightful future your talent lies

No worth is greater than watching you grow 
To a world whose...

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Categories: black diamond, black african american, child,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Black Diamond
summoned black diamond
sun's at other side of night
with the dream roses

heart of joy twinkling
gone down in sea of colors
star of plum evening

still in its peach...

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Categories: black diamond, beauty, color, flower, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Black Diamond Night

Life is a cruel wench, a beckoning tramp, she is.
 Sprawling wide open to draw us into her erotic nectar.
 She whispers lurid...

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Categories: black diamond, introspection, life, nature,
Form: Free verse



Pure Black Diamond
deep in the bowels of the earth
this treasure is found,
dug out by the men
who work underground,

they crawl and hack to fill the store
waiting for the...

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Categories: black diamond, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black Diamond Night
Mornings of  rubies and sapphires are fine
  Afternoons  of Topaz and turquoise  divine
Evenings with Emeralds   shine bright
But nothing compares...

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Categories: black diamond, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Look Closely
Look closely,  feel the harmless heat 
enveloping black-diamond 
         petals in the glistening
   ...

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Categories: black diamond, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memento of Motherhood
When silver waves of crystalline crescent
     emanate rhapsodies glazed in
        Jupiter light.. reflections
 ...

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Categories: black diamond, emotions, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Panagiota
Panagiota is a whirling Galaxie
with her blue thunder words
a spirit like black diamond lightning..
She bruises the clueless and ignorant
not out of hate but of love
not...

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Categories: black diamond, courage, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hypnotic and Deep
               I inherited a magnificent antique natural black diamond ring,
it is...

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Categories: black diamond, beautiful, dark, myth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bastard Sun
Life is a bastard son, prodding the fertile horizon
poking into places tender, tearing the expanse of dawn
he taunts, rude and bellicose, so full of himself
spewing...

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Categories: black diamond, nature, parody, universe,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Precious Black Night POTD
Black onyx night, of the pearlescent moon,
A velvety backdrop for rare diamond stars,
And nocturnal tunes all the nights of June,
Black opal night, converging on ruby...

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Categories: black diamond, beautiful, color, dark, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Diamond In Black
With broken wills...and poisoned pills
Darkness groomed with a long black vale
With shimmering shadows...like a rusty rose
Twinkling in twilight with colors pale

Glimmering glows...from head to toes
The...

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Categories: black diamond, birth, butterfly, courage, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nature Walk, Nature Talk
I was a zealous, blue patrol officer, preserving the safer public environments,
As black, diamond nights come in sequence, with the glittery enlightenments.

I helped to direct...

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Categories: black diamond, beauty, community, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet

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