Best Contest Dark Poems

       We are the dead that visit you at night,
Can you not feel our sadness and our yearning;
             This deathly realm is a dark endless void,
We feel...

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resonance of rain 
an azure sky now darkened…
 
unseen tears roll down



Contest: Dark Rain (haiku)
4th place...

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The Big Ben bangs!

Reminding me its twelfth midnight
Packing my things
Preparing to go home
Car keys on hand
Off to go, outside..

I looked up to search the smile of moon
Seeking winking stars even if strewn
Disappointed, they have gone too soon

Along the driveway, 
A sudden gust of wind
One by...

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MID-NIGHTMARES

It haunts the wicked parts of sleep,
where even dream's darkest corners will not tread.
Drowning shadows in the stinging tears we weep,
immobilizing dream and dreamer, frozen to the bed.

We cannot move a lower limb or arm,
and every image seen will prick the skin.
Grit fear, the grizzly...

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Dark And Twisted, Another Bloody Body Awaits


There she lies, bloody dead at foot of my bed
How the hell had our love morphed into this
Throat slashed, body decaying without a head
Smell of rotting flesh and grossly stale piss.

Cold reality now just a dark and ragged blur
Every...

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Many weeping people have come to my funeral with flowers,
      Oh the red roses are so beautiful and the lilies divine;
My dress is of the softest rosy pink and it is all chiffon and wispy,
     ...

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Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol

The autumnal equinox period 
Spells time for worship, pilgrimages
Rituals and a pandemonium
Of festivities and gay hyperactivities

The elephant godhead idol
Over decked, anointed
With all fervour is immersed 
In its watery bed amidst chantings
Its worshipped form 
Turns to formlessness

The formless deities rise at dawn 
Bleating...

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"Dormammu is the Cosmic Conqueror, the Destroyer of Worlds. 
A being of infinite power and endless hunger, on a quest to invade
every universe and bring all worlds into his Dark Dimension. And he
hungers for Earth most of all."

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Dawn rises, and the Sun is Grey, again : One can hear the tears flowing.
The nakedness of the mighty Oak :  Withers : In the shadow of “ LIFE “
I watch “Mother Nature”  cry Tears of pain : in the West wind blowing
I...

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Life in the dark

Sorrow and melancholy,
The reflections of our dark inside,
Are just like an opaque window,
That never permeated any light,

Sometimes sad state of ignorance,
Urges us to thrive in the dark,
Sullen expressions on the face,
As if Iniquitous plot against the kind,

Fumbling around in the ebony of...

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Blushes of Dusk





It's been twilight of dusk
as humanity cries,
Bloodshed of wars
cruelty and famines,
Emotions all bled
kindness scraped,
Love exhaled
and logic slaughtered,
Stripped of souls
lay the corpses,
Heartless and skinless
mere skeletons dance,
Passion and warmth
entombed in history,
Eyeballs rotate
no mind ponders,

Anticipating ..... 
palpitations thump, 
Heart protrudes out
of the breast bone,
Dusky blush lends
rosy...

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Rafters shake in irritation, as if to say what their excuse?
It could be him, it could be her, but there's no love when there's abuse


A temper flames, then brings a tear.  It sears self-worth, again...again
Someone there has claimed the right and then the pain.....again...again

...The...

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The sun-deserted earth, darkness night bears
A small way in the trees, easy to walk in there
Where there's a cemetery not so old in years
Where spiders crawl and serpents slither
The sands of time have seen it wither.

Dark storm strikes down the grass with rain
Two lovers, young...

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Darkness engulfs





Loneliness stings
black of darkness engulfs
Mood swings
pain of parting bluffs,

Desires denied
as all the plans trash, 
My heart He spies
my subtle emotions crash,

Fire of anger
burns till the core,
Mankind is in danger
higher flames galore,

See myself lying
amidst many soulless,
Once sybarite
sleeping in earth's lap,

If eyes stare in zero
and refuse...

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Screams from a thousand men
upon bloodied fields,
the blood dripping
from the hedges
and over-reaching briars.

Look to that blood...
smear its life-gone sap
into your soul
and start to count the bodies
on the fields.

You will find a thousand...
Each one will have blood
around his head and throat
and you won't forget the scene
should...

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