Best Black Out Poems
in the village street
alone our brand new gas lamp
this our Las Vegas,
while we all celebrated
enemy bombs raining down.
© Harry J Horsman 2014
Categories:
black out, remember, war,
Form:
Tanka
A rocking chair settles in the core of darkness
Time flows through the room
Narrow room
Empty as a drum
Four walls
No threshold to help me run!
Silence speaks
Screams its words out
Candle light grows dim
A symphonic humming of trees
And the yawn of the night
Fills the room
A wind crosses through a sealed window
Leaving an echo of a cradle song behind
Air shivers
The candle sought for light
Silence turns to rhythm
The echo of the gravelly voice of time
Tick, Tock
Loud heart beats
The sound of a pen
Scribble, scribble
A moment of hollowness
Pen hits the ground
A numb, Heart ache
Tightness
A Voice of pain growls
Silence turns to shadows
A swift glance to memories
Tears shed to words unspoken
A dull voice of a clock
Tick, Tock
A shallow breathing nearly fading
A rocking cradle
Blurry room
Heart beats muteness
Blackout
A threshold helps me run
Categories:
black out, death, mystery, words, heart,
Form:
Free verse
"Seduction in the Black Out Days"
Love wrapped its long legs around me
Brought me closer to so much more
in the Light I breathed in your fever
you touched me inside planted your
hard heated mind and seeded me
wanting so much more,
the pulling towards
the rising, the calling
a little death thrilled me
away in the morning
Seduction in the Black Out Days
Long distance riding your cool cerebral waves
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
“Heroist” / Apparat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5FdymSa_Y
LYRICS / "Heroist"
https://genius.com/Apparat-heroist-lyrics
Categories:
black out, desire, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Spring- Hidden Poetry
©2019 Beverly Stock
Splendid, bright,
with the call
of spring,
trees flush,
thy oak leaves,
while each year
thou bequeath
some pledge of
greater majesty.
Created by choosing specific words from more extensive work, this “Hidden Poem” is culled from the poem below. “Black Out'' or ”Hidden Poems” selections original poetry text highlighted, cut out, or masked. The poem below is in the public domain.
Monadnock in Early Spring Amy Lowell, 1874 - 1925
Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all
The little lesser hills which compass thee,
Thou standest, bright with April’s buoyancy,
Yet holding Winter in some shaded wall
Of stern, steep rock; and startled by the call
Of Spring, thy trees flush with expectancy
And cast a cloud of crimson, silently,
Above thy snowy crevices where fall
Pale shriveled oak leaves, while the snow beneath
Melts at their phantom touch. Another year
Is quick with import. Such each year has been.
Unmoved thou watchest all and all bequeath
Some jewel to thy diadem of power,
Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen.
Categories:
black out, poems, poetry, power, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
alone in the dark devoured by fear
never able to shed a tear
as demons come shadows scream
we can only hope and dream
that the blackout will end
and that light will come again
Cause it cant rain down darkness
All the time we walk in the streets
We will save the world
The black will fade
Light will lead our hearts away
Categories:
black out, death, depression, loss
Form:
Imagism
Oh my im so tired, frustraed, confuse
drained of all energy heart frozen,but
my mind still amused.
It's been so long since i felt a heavyness on my body
holding me still while my blood rushes warmly inside me.
Who are you?
Why are you here?
Why do you seem to say things that penatrate my ear.
Clouds blue, sun Yellow
raised angel/but already born devil (Fact or Fiction)
Nites dark, days full of of light
taught peace, but only learned fight (Fact or Fiction)
Trees tall in the fall
leaves flying from the breeze
atmosphere at ease,please relieve these tears that pours
like a poor man's needs (Fact or Fiction)
I want to be what i am not!
i want to shout what lifes about!
hurt, pain,lies, pills
alcohol addiction, and pilled up bills.
Jelously,envy.depression, stressing
false impressions,that make you feel less then
panic attacks that come unwanted
only in the mind,but dam they are haunting
I have no idea whats going on
jus went from one subject to another not knowing if i belong
on this earth that i walk upon that feels my feet with wicked dirt(Oh my GOD Fact or Fiction)
Closings my eyes, sleep is overbearing my life, right now
ambiem taking its toll my eyes start to roll (Fact or Fiction)
and did i spell frustread wrong,because im very confuse right now?
Categories:
black out, confusion, dark,
Form:
Cranked a surprise with his jack in the box
Chained stays my flower in chastity locks
Power down, without T. V
Painful night crawled tauntingly
Deafened by raised legs' rotate inside clocks
30th August 2020
Written for Contest : Fun With Limericks
Sponsor : Tania Kitchin
Syllables are: 10, 10, 7, 7, 10
Categories:
black out, candy, desire, fun, funny,
Form:
Limerick
i hear you deep within me
sirens of sound drowning engine
turbine whistle pierce the drum
welcome have a seat he will be with you
in a bit, he will see you now .
the hall is long and dark
seems like i have walked this before
pause an look at the pictures on the wall
and they say nothing at all
where have you been ?
it has been such a long time
you must tell me how you been
no time for that now enter here
the room is sterilized and you in white
standing there looking at me saying
"i do" not now i have no time you
start the engine and drive off dust clouds
whip and bend
i hear you calling me ,"wake up "
you have been in an accident are you ok ?
mind beat up and sober back to where i was
Categories:
black out, dream,
Form:
Free verse
it was a big city night
there went out the light
people run wild
no phone you
could dail
everything down no police sound
no doudt
it was the city
BLACK OUT
Categories:
black out, adventure, depression,
Form:
Light Verse
I keep my eyes shut
Opened eyes see too much
I can't bear to look
Categories:
black out, 10th grade,
Form:
Haiku
Major City
Becoming pitch black
Mystery just like that
Moment Pause
What happened?
Darkened here and there
What was the cause?
Investigation uncertain
No electricity anywhere
Fuse blow out perhaps
No one really knows
Alternatives thought by people
Getting to somewhere
Directions thought
Movement started
Havoc and uncertainty coming together
Immediate twist
Black Out
Categories:
black out, america, anxiety, city, color,
Form:
Free verse
My life is changing,
rearraging
feeling so dizzy
my head spinning
i hit the floor, i hear no sound
my heart goes slow
my head goes light
i feel so alone.
I hear breathing, not my own
my head starts to pound
i hear a voice, i block it out
then my life just blacks out...
Categories:
black out, confusion, death, imagination, life,
Form:
Free verse
Words hidden in the dark some night,
As flame's whisper on a Moon lit wall,
Faint echoes of a lightning bolt,
Lost in ink, trapped on the page.
Blacked-out lines reveal the soul,
Truth emerges, stark yet bold,
On the tounge, new words take hold,
Meaning found in what’s not there.
Through the void, stories bloom,
From the edge, a voice, square room.
Categories:
black out, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
In the velvet hush of evening’s fall,
Where shadows weave a gentle thrall,
The whispers rise, a sacred call,
From hearts that wear the night like shawl.
Beneath the moon’s soft silver veil,
Their voices strong, their spirits frail,
Yet through the dark, they will prevail,
Their truth, a quiet, mournful wail.
In every line, the pain takes flight,
A dance of words through endless night,
They pen the wrongs, the desperate plight,
Yet find in dark, a spark of light.
The stars above, a thousand eyes,
Bear witness to the tears, the cries,
But still, their songs of hope arise,
A testament that never dies.
For in the ink, both black and bold,
Are stories that are seldom told,
Of chains unbroken, dreams unsold,
A history of strength, controlled.
They sing of skies both vast and free,
Of oceans deep, an endless sea,
Where hearts and minds, though bound, might be
Released through blackened poetry.
And so, they write, through endless night,
Their words a beacon, burning bright,
In every verse, they claim their right,
To be, to live, to shine in light.
Categories:
black out, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme