Best Blackness Poems

Terror's blackness engulfs us as we flee.

Knowing not what fate awaits -

you've let go of my hand.


Visual #3
Written 2/18/15 by Andrea Dietrich
For the "In Praise of a Kimo" Poetry contest of nette onclaud...

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Blackness Engulfs Rare Beauty Whose Soft Heart There Holds

Blackness engulfs rare beauty whose soft heart there holds
she that pretty flowers envy yet still dare to adorn.
Emerging as a rare butterfly from cocoon's deep folds,
her light will grace all and never her heart be torn.

As darkness...

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I told my therapist I had a fall back position                                   ...

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Blackness…
I’m afraid
I can feel it, so dense
It knows me… it holds me
As it to keep me in suspense

Where am I? 
I’m terrified, my throat is dry
I can feel it…
The blackness rubbing against me
It loves me… it wants me 
I feel it’s hungry

“Hello?”
“Any body there?”
I can...

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The Blackness And The Hard Labor Of The Housemaid

Store up the spasms of the low rims of busy suns
trudging work tills the upheaval of ragged soil
and what of shadow hours, sweat and hard toil
does indifferent soil its gasping unholy vomit spill
she folds the clothes and...

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I've crawled to the edge of my own darkness,
and I only wanted a small taste I swear;
And I heard the prophets of the ages screaming,
There's just no coming back from there;
But they were my own unexplained poor choices,
to gaze into the chasm far beyond;
For I...

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BLACKNESS
No racism, we are all made of black
Like a bacon-eating balaclava-wearing bachelor Jack,
And even if you're white or Caucasian,
Can't run from black hair like typical Asian
Cos of creation we all had our fair share
And even if you're blonde or red at all,
Can't run away from...

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I walked with my blackness
Not on my head like a crown of pride
But like a shackle around my feet
I basked in my down trodden self
Never lifting the true glory of me

I walked with my blackness
Blanketed in my self pity
Not seeing that my fight lies within
Shoulders...

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When blackness turns into light

Society could not deny
what we saw
with our own two eyes.

We saw blackness
turn into light
soulful stars
illuminating
white nights.

Jackie was a pioneer
his love lifted us 
higher and higher
his black voice
shining bright in 
the white night
his acceptance there
was no denying.

James Brown led the way
when there...

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The Blackness

From the time of the beginning 
A blackness there has been
And though he sits there grinning
He can’t be touched or seen

A taste he’ll place upon your tongue
Sweet words he’ll whisper in your ear
And even though you know it’s wrong
You’ll sink before his scent in...

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"I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back"
 from Rolling Stones' Paint it Black

You’ve 
died and
gone away.
Your soul has fled!
Abiding blackness
now seeps into my head.
The bright hues all around me
I simply cannot comprehend.
How...

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What is Blackness?

Is it the colour of my skin that represents my mentallity?
Is it the colour of the crown on my head that shows where I reign?
Is it the depth of my soul's missary?
Is it in the contrast indicating my sanity?
Is it in it length...

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watch as one controls the other
but never see when they are apart
dark cannot be without light
just as light cannot be without dark
stop yourself from trying to separate them
for none shall stop the balance it holds
be here to watch the sun rise
be here to watch it...

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I dont subcribe to the keep it real principles that got us calling effed up situations 
all good
Neither do I allign myself with the masses of black upper classes that think 
whatever they think is how we all should
See I simultaneously support your right to...

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in blackness resides,
 the everything inside,
 but too powerful to know,
easy as you go, 
driven to suicide, bro,
too many names many places,
the subconcious  erases, 
a thousand voices in time, 
 schizophrenia i know seems to flow, 
and the guilt of the crimes,
and your heart...

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