Best Blackout Poems

I'd finished work at ten PM and got in my car
It was dark as I drove home and in the sky noticed a star
Could be...

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While we walked home from the movies, one moonlit starry night,
My friends and I talked and laughed, enjoying summer's delights.

The streets were quite silent, as...

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Why living in darkness,
If you have the shine at your side?
What is this rag for?
this cloak of sadness
You have the wonderful cape.
of joy at your...

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She leaves Southampton
This Titanic ship
Her maiden voyage
New York trip
 
Channel crossings to Cherbourg, France
To Queenstown in Ireland
Where passengers dance
To some, a new life awaits
The future...

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Mirror of memories 





As he stands by me,
wonder if he is the one?
my first love ?

Subtle emotions of schooldays, classroom,
Those moments 
of togetherness in canteen,
For...

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Trying Times

Can I maintain this life
Without begging Christ 
To save me 
From the life he gave me 
Can I walk to the plot
To where lays...

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"What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said,
In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead.

We would all go for...

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The winding roads weave in and out
Through the thick murkiness of my mind
Molass density permeates this soupy blackout 
Opening the door for foggy convoluted whimsy
A...

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All these thoughts running around my head in a sadistic fashion 
sitting me down and force feeding misery to the shallow doll that is me.

What...

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He slammed the wooden shutters closed,
And drew the blackout blind -
He hated sunlight coming in.
No sun of any kind!

The darkened room was perfect then:
So cool...

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Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a...

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As the sun shone in southern skies, I was finally on my vacation,
And I turned the pages of a magazine, with new fashion creations.

I lounged...

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Sometimes,
Nothing makes me feel more alive
Than, the stillness of the night
The conflicts beside my being
To the struggles within my mind

Sometimes,
Nothing makes me feel more alive
Than,...

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We don't appreciate electricity until it's gone.
Especially at night when our lights can't be turned on.
Most of us take electricity for granted until we have...

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time light extinguished
all mankind’s final demise
blackout upon us

seas overflow shores
earthquakes open up portals
feeding ravenous

meteorites pelt earth
immense inferno burns realm
earth’s calamity

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