Best Dark Hope Poems

Lost, to the darkness, deep ...

This bleak sojourn I have made times on end,
dipping my eyes to the dreadful forms that mock me,
a maelstrom of words spinning my mind,
to pinch off the oppressive stench of this place.

You have beckoned me, ages hence,
howling and shrieking like...

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melancholy days approach;
escape where?  In naked woods?
where do winds wail around
the hilly slopes?
where ash, maple, and oak abound?
I see a dazzling blaze,
a kindling world,
as fires leap everywhere
all over the hemispheres,
where fatal booby traps are sprung,
where bombs fall without respite.
now, where can I escape?
Suddenly, night...

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The man stumbled on, wanting to get as far away as possible
the sights he had seen and lived through too terrible to contemplate.
How could another human deliberately inflict such awful things on another.
He could see a gentle stream of smoke arising from the distant chimney
and...

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Wooden floor's relief
Cooling fevered feet
Pace, bare, in blackness
As tranquil raindrops
Softens prickly nerves

Cloud covered stars
Still shine, behind
Glowing without
Doubt's permission

To find them
Just look up
Hope sees through

The dark
Like the

Moon.

12/18/19

For 'Pick a Title, Volume 12 - Diminished Hexaverse' contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh

Title: Cool Fever...

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A candle burns its life away; 
sacrifice to it, is sweet; 
it is a candle’s lot in life.

Candles gift, a light dark cloaked; 
beacon burning bright; 
candles warmth and charm are unmatched by 
anything else, man has made.

Candles birth soft memories; 
lend rest to the...

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from a winged elm tree
a wren's knife cuts through glum dawn ~
                            joyful day afoot



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Hopes of happiness,
Laughter,
Turn into darkness and fear.
Screaming,
Shouting,
A spray of despair.
Tugged in my heart,
Ripping out my hair.
Nowhere to turn,
Nowhere to hide,
So much is going on,
Looking around,
Eyes filled with horror,
My country is falling apart,
Guns shooting,
Rebellious,
Tears of sadness,
Dropping down my cheek.
Gone are the dreams,
The hopes of joy,
Because of...

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down the path of broken promises 
up the stream’s misguided dreams

shoulders burdened crushed and rounded
by all accounts tallied and squared off

countless breaths and tears held back
while chilling fears explode unhinged

tossed plans and schemes to wispy clouds
deep in marshlands of futility hope lies 

armsful of useless...

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she brings

the stars

to the night sky

she brings

the sun

to the day

without this light

we would live

in darkness

in darkness

we would live

in fear dismay

this makes us

appreciate

the light

the light

is love

in darkness

it allows us

to find our way...

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   Awake on a numb dark night he wonders--
      tired cells of his existence blazing
  on fiery topanga in crushed slumber.
      Anxious, chained, gasping at barriers
  of individuality or a species...

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Meaning hangs on a wing
and briefly holds together,
tipping on some fine edge,
a feathers weight from oblivion.
Take this evening, a sunset
settling upon the water, the fleck
of a small boat with its solitary figure
floating the still, birds flying overhead, 
each a part of a moment 
sliced from...

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Skies of unrepentant gray
   Unrelenting day to day
Gloom ensconced in your brain
   Hope waxes not; it only wanes

When at the door, who appears?
   A stranger in whose eyes flash fear
Abruptly, senses so long dulled
   Spring to life,...

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Me: Since Samhain I have been chatting with Satan on Skype..On this date he celebrates his fall from grace..

Satan: Thank you Ken..You look marvelous today..What is your routine? You haven't aged in years...Is it diet and gym, the ladies and your erotic poetry?

Me: You are...

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The cliffs were the only place she could go to find the edge of love
the only boundry between up and down, of faith and fate,
a frontier where tears scratch slate with bursts of pearl pain
and blood speaks to the sky for signs of passion's flood,
sea...

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For me burning daylight invites me to the black
It's not that I don't like daylight, for I'll never lack

If I'm ever to prowl whether it's amidst the dark, light
It's being the cleverest, within either I'm out of sight

Have you ever walked behind someone oh so...

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