Best Darker Poems
darker than raindrops
mushroom cloud blooming purple....
I can see my bones
Categories:
darker, death, funeral, imagination, science,
Form:
Haiku
A darker shade of blue (revised October 22,2020)
I came home from work today,
and saw the note you left
It took me by surprise,
couldn't imagine what it said
You said you needed time and space...
to figure some things out
I think there's prob'ly more to this...
you left me here with my doubts
Bridge
Looks like...I'll keep on living without you
Looks like...there's nothing more to say
Looks like...I'll just stay home without you
Cause with this latest news...
My sadness takes on a deeper hue...
I'm a darker shade of blue
You called me up the other day
and said our daughter's doing fine...
She started her new school today
she'll call when she has time
Chorus
I guess I'm happy for you
yeah...so happy for you
You're trying to find a new life
and I don't know what to do...
but, I think you might come back to me
or, maybe you don't want to...
Now, I'm a darker shade of blue
I'm a darker shade of blue
So much time has passed by
but, I still feel the same
My life ended long ago
the day you walked away
You called me on the phone today
said you've found your one true love
I guess I was just dreaming
cause, I thought I was the one.
Bridge
Looks like...I'll keep on living without you
Looks like...there's nothing more to say
Looks like...I'll just stay home without you
Cause with this latest news...
My sadness takes on a deeper hue...
I'm a darker shade of blue
Chorus
I'm so happy for you
really...happy for you
You finally found your new life
and I know that it's true
now I know you won't come back to me
Cause, you really don't want to...
now, I'm a darker shade of blue
I'm a darker shade of blue
Now I see you won't come back to me
Cause, you really don't want to...
Now, I'm a darker shade of blue.
I'm a darker shade of blue (repeat two more times)
(fade to zero)
John Derek Hamilton
Original write February 06, 2017
revised October 22,2020
Categories:
darker, blue, break up, divorce,
Form:
Lyric
Have you seen the alternate me
My darker self
He sits on the edge of shadows
Waiting to devour
Consume
Eviscerate
There was a time he ruled
His appetites satisfied
Nothing could stand in his way
He tied my mind in barbed wire
I could not move
Heart and soul shredded with knives
In that other life
Yet that was not to be
I was stronger in the end
I didn't break
I was able to bend
The real me emerged
I came with a surge
Lifted up from the muck
More than just luck
I was given grace
A better nature to chase
Light shone on my face
My darker nature fled
He wanted me dead
I chose to be led
Drank the wine ate the bread
Still if you look close you'll see
There in the shadows
The darker me
Anorexic
Impotent
Caged
Yet still a part of me
There in the shadows
Waiting
Wanting to consume
Now he is bound
Encased in his own wire
Kept from me by fire
From a power that is higher
Yet I will not rest
Even though I'm blessed
Darkness is my test
a choice to make every day
He invites me to play
I say go away
Evaporate
Except your fate
Categories:
darker, conflict, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
words left un-spoken
tears left un-cried
thoughts i keep hidden
deep inside
I don't belong here with you
sorry to waste your time
the thoughts run through my head one last time
like a freight train
it keeps me sane
but once again here i am
alone with the pain
why should we fight
whats the point
the past is over
things never change
thanks to you my whole life was re-aranged
Categories:
darker, life
Form:
There was a dim light
But I want it darker still
A fading… alike into ever night
Just so I wouldn’t see but feel
I draw comfort from that dark
To barely see… to only hear
The beating of one’s heart
To be afraid of and no more to fear
I let the dark envelop what I see
The last of light… I watch diminish
Did I feel what I cannot be?
My seen life… did I relish?
I wanted to go in deeper
And perhaps I did just that
I did not want to leave sooner
In an encompassing dark… I am glad
It was a fading into the night
But wasn’t dark enough still
Dimmer becomes the fading light
Just so to nevermore see, I’ll feel
Categories:
darker, loneliness,
Form:
Rhyme
I was born
on Christ-
mas day.My
mother was
sprung out
on drugs. My
father was
unknown, he
was one of
her tricks.
The moment
I cried, I was
placed in the
foster care
system. My
mother was
deemed un-
fit. I've never
known love.
I was placed
in several
foster homes.
I was raped
in most of
them.I ran
away from
those awful
homes. So I
was declared
ward of state
by fifteen.
The streets be-
came my hum-
ble abode.I hate
Christmas. And
there's nothing
jolly about it.
12/15/ 19
Inspired By The Darker Side
Of Christmas Contest
Sponsor: Richard Lamoureux
Categories:
darker, christmas,
Form:
Free verse
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY
“We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we work and pay our respects to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.
We recognise the past atrocities against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this land and that Australia was founded on the genocide and dispossession of First Nations people. We acknowledge that colonial structures and policies remain in place today and recognise the ongoing struggles of First Nations people in dismantling those structures. The struggle to seek justice, to remember and address this nation’s past is ongoing and is a necessary requirement for individual and collective healing process.
We support the Uluru Statement from the Heart to achieve justice, recognition and respect for First Nations people and a referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice in the Constitution. We accept the invitation contained in the Statement to walk together with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.”
“A Darker Shade of Light”
(First Nation Australia from mind of whitefella)
My people
see your people
simple ignorant
crazy greedy
black cockatoo
laughing eyes
smiling angry
all seeing
spit signature
fingers spread
on hands pointing
bones at my people
ochre powder
yellow cake
red earth bleeding
white fella
yellow belly snake
blowing out
the fires of our
stolen children
torn from our
mob, not yours
swallowed
by your
gadaidja fangs
sinking into the skin
of our land
poison
all around
greedy gubbah
when will you
understand
our nation
not your flag
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
Categories:
darker, children, freedom, sorry, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Darker than the Cavern, No Relief
Darker
than the Cavern
opening gate into Hell,
the lost Souls, dead nights
with such unimaginable delights.
They seek mercy
where none can be had
an ending never found,
lost forever deep underground.
No Altar
to burn incense
a dark pit into agony lie,
caverns , dark and deep to cry.
Moans
that wail in
pleas unfulfilled,
repentance was never willed.
Dark city
Hades in action
forever gifting torment,
upon those lost in banishment.
No sleep
just louder cries
hideous sorrowful wails
where forgiveness forever fails.
Robert J. Lindley, 09-27-2014
Note: I woke this morning from a dream of the
underworld. David's passing was on my mind last
night and this dream shouted out a warning to me.
Too late, too late is a terrible place to be...
Categories:
darker, bereavement, dark, death, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
Days of rain bring me great pain close to the Great Depression stuck inside looking out a window guessing if the rain will stop cause the suns coming back out but it's still raining on days like this I have nothing to do but complaining grumpiness takes over so then I really walk around with bold shoulders waiting for someone to test me they know I'm fast cause of slap-boxing and when I'm mad no human can stop me I go beyond ten I feel like the hulk but on the south side of raleigh fully of anger asking someone to try me I cause I don't wanna talk I just want the violence let's skip to te action people tell me Jordan chill you acting kinda childish well let me be a child bish all these emotions and I can't even go skating someone has to take them and I don't hit females cause I'm a real man but I could name a few who isn't like my father and my homie Philip both of y'all niggas are some bitches scared to hit a man so ya scary asses hit women if you ask me if a man hit a women they should be put in the ring with someone just as mean but do it professionally see if they can fight back then I bet they would fold and give in hoping for forgiveness but leave it to me first blood is when it's finish y'all should stay tuned cause this is just the beginning
Categories:
darker, abuse, anger,
Form:
Bio
"Dealing a Deeper Darker Crimson"
Dealing a deeper darker crimson velvet kiss
Lips bleed criminal and cut deep
on caged tongues whispering a love missed
Vanilla dreams
Black pods of slippery evanescence peeled back
to reveal salt stinging words devoid of traps
which you welcome open and arched
between the tumultuous sanguine
flippant, shuffling slow decks
Dealing a deeper darker Crimson
Velvet Kiss
Mocking silent deranged voyeurs
their prosecution solitary and vexed
they sit red-eyed, suddenly ancient, with pursed lips
In the Sea of Her, life is kept;
you feel through her rolling waves,
On your shore, she is met
your ego cast aside
your worth naked
Dealing a deeper darker Crimson Velvet Kiss
Lips bleed criminal and cut deep
on caged tongues whispering a love missed
(LadyLabyrinth/2019)
"How Soon is Now", The Smiths
https://youtu.be/nX8ZAXFpoJY
Lyrics/ https://genius.com/The-smiths-how-soon-is-now-lyrics
"From where dreams are woven
Bending sound, dredging the ocean, lost in my circle
Here am I, flashing no colour
Tall in this room overlooking the ocean
Here are we, one magical movement from Kether to Malkuth
There are you, you drive like a demon from station to station"
David Bowie
Categories:
darker, desire, muse, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Shriveling corn in late fall fields
Haunts with bleak precedent
My hope; and even tiny blight
On the premise of a grain
Assumes a goal's defect.
Is this a sorrow made of seeing?
Made of faith imposing on recurrence
The promise of my scheme?
And are not sight and faith in promise
Grown within this common ground?
If viruses and I are one,
What makes our contradiction?
Does a blemish travel in the seed?
And should I pray to science's revisions,
Believing god is not immaculate?
Late fall wanes and hesitation
Seeps through bending stalks
And into my inclusion;
And all my host of chemicals
Rage interpretation.
Categories:
darker, change,
Form:
Free verse
After truly listening to all the discussions decided to delete even the world weary darker side,
return to meditation and to listen, to listen. For it seems too often in this world the very best are the darker side's victims. Though I cannot say the greed and lack of empathy I see and hear do not create concern. And there is so much work to do to protect the sick, the weak and the very air we breath. That dark side born of fear and frustration is meant to give us warning. Perhaps what must be done to acknowledge the darker side is to teach and learn, teach and learn.
In sadness
Categories:
darker, politicalworld,
Form:
Prose Poetry
This is where death is the child and I it's Laborious hand holder
Jagged night, lean souls
blackened sight in the martyr moon
crooning crows and brazen ravens tear the skies through
Crooked grins and demon walkers make the evil hallow
and the meek surrender
Beads of fear saunter a stream's pace down my tired countenance
The weary die. Her voice bleeds a susurrus...
"Doth thou arrest my poison...my heart...my love"
I only reply true "May I arrest the blade of my weary foe before I arrest thy poison kiss"
There is a place where the mad prophets speak
Where god speaks confused tongue
Where Babylon is anew
This is where death is the child and I it's laborious Hand-Holder
-Kalonji A. Davis
2/18/2010
Categories:
darker, adventure, art, confusion, death,
Form:
Free verse
A darker shade of blue
I came home from work today
and saw the note you left
It took me by surprise
couldn't imagine what it said
You said you needed time and space
to figure some things out
I think there's prob'ly more to this
you left me here with my doubts
You called me up the other day
and said our daughter's doing fine
She started her new school today
she'll call when she finds time
I can't believe what you just said
although, I know that it is true
I guess you found your time and space
now I'm a darker shade of blue
Chorus
I guess I'm happy for you
yeah, so happy for you
You're trying to find a new life
and I know that it's true
but, I think you might come back to me
or maybe you don't want to...
now, I'm a darker shade of blue
So much time has passed me by
but I still feel the same
My life ended long ago
the day you walked away
You called me on the phone today
said you've found your one true love
I guess I was just dreaming
cause, I thought I was the one.
Bridge
Looks like...I'll keep living without you
Looks like...there's nothing left to say
Looks like...I'll just stay home without you
Cause with this latest news...
now, I'm a darker shade of blue
Chorus
I'm so happy for you
really...happy for you
You finally found your new life
and I know that it's true
but, now I know you won't come back to me
Cause, you really don't want to...
now, I'm a darker shade of blue
Now I see you won't come back to me
Cause, you really don't want to
Now I'm a darker shade of blue.
I'm a darker shade of blue (repeat two more times)
(fade to zero)
John Derek Hamilton
February 06, 2017
Categories:
darker, break up, confusion, feelings,
Form:
Lyric
I’ve awoken in despair
I’m lost, I’m running away
My path is getting fainter
I have never seen a darker day
It’s suffocating me inside
I’m trapped in my anger
The happiness in me has vanished
And my hatred is getting stronger
Only yesterday I remember
I had a smile across my face
Now look at me in the shadows
Lurking from place to place
No goal! No Future!
I’ll be trapped here for eternity
Groaning, moaning with pain
In this life I call reality
No doubt I am going to lose control
Of what I call my path, my lonely road
As painful as a burden can be
This just drives me to explode
Crazy is as clear is it can be
The more I lose my mind
The more I can’t agree
With what I am about to find
A total fiery and chaotic world
In which I will live alone
Flesh burning, torture of every kind
This is what I will call home
Now I sleep with a frown on my face
Yet in another world I scream
For the pain is unbearable
Just please take me out of this dream!!
Eliel202
Categories:
darker, lifeme, me,
Form:
Rhyme