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Best Dark Hours Poems


Premium Member The Tower Rebuilt
...I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
......

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Categories: dark hours, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They'Re Going Forward
...O God of the universes of Creation as a whole
I raise my hands; and open my heart and soul.'
Prostrate I call upon your power, to bless my
Friends in these long dark hours' these days
Long abhorr......

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Categories: dark hours, appreciation, assonance, christian, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old Dark House
...The Old Dark House

This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of Al......

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Categories: dark hours, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Truth Found, Recovery of a Broken Soul
...Truth Found, Recovery Of A Broken Soul

1.
In nightmarish dreams he found such great dread
Of lost hope, life's decay, eyes of the dead.
Day's clear lights his damaged mind repaired
Deep traps ......

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Categories: dark hours, art, deep, farm, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Smiles Follow You
...The golden hour for rising has arrived, and there are violet roses in the sky,
So, I bid hello to you, my robust friend, as the vibrant, cerise birds float by.

The obsidian night, it was very lon......

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Categories: dark hours, fantasy, imagery, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Am
...Who am I is a question,
That baffles and confuses me.
Aren’t I a stranger to myself,
When in me angels and demons cohabit,
Dwelling side by side.

Sometimes I am mired in confusion.
Sometimes ......

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Categories: dark hours, i am, life, light,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Journal
..."As water flows down when a faucet is turned on, thoughts and feelings pour out into a journal cleansing the heart" ~ By Poet

I keep a journal, a treasure chest of memories.
Where I record ea......

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Categories: dark hours, best friend, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - the Old Dark House -
...This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before......

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Categories: dark hours, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Old Dark House
...This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before......

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Categories: dark hours, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Stranded
...A raging river tenaciously floods
Tannins and silts combine to dark blood

A hut, just fifty metres, occupying their sight
Two men, cold and wearied, stuck for the night 

An adventure all plan......

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Categories: dark hours, adventure, earth, nature, success,
Form: Narrative
Rivers of Time
...Like rivers of time / our lives drift by /
as seasons / providing  the trees / 
acquire soft, green leaves / and then in time / 
turning red and golden / shed their leaves.

Travelers in time ar......

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Categories: dark hours, lifeday, time, day, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A New Year
...The carcasses of rockets litter grass
dark hours advanced since midnight bells have chimed
and revellers stood watching seconds pass
to cheer and kiss to strains of 'Auld Lang Syne'.
Outside, fro......

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Categories: dark hours, new year,
Form: Sonnet
Escaping Rita
...Chased mercilessly 
over well- worn tar 
palpable loss pushes 
a sable brush 
dunked in dread
a furious deluge
of fear 
 oozes out
blackens every inch
 of familiar landscape
what if’s 
eat......

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Categories: dark hours, fear, scary, surreal, travel,
Form: Free verse
Past Present Future
...My nostalgic trip started in the train station, where I gazed upon an entry hall that resembled a faded photo in a faded album. I clung to the hope of a futuristic carriage.

Sat at your table
You......

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Categories: dark hours, future,
Form: Haibun
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
...I heard the owl call my name,
like a backbeat in a child's voice,
etched in shadows of a father's grave,

lonely echoes on a frosted night...

at dawn I'll be immortal again,
renewed by a work......

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Categories: dark hours, dream, war, , cute,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things