Best Dim Poems
Below are the all-time best Dim poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dim poems written by PoetrySoup members
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
dim, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
It Matters NotIt hovers here, a moon opaque,
obscuring mountain trails I take.
No other living things appear.
A moon opaque. . . It hovers here.
I follow on along a...
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Categories:
dim, dark, lost love,
Form:
Quatrain
Past-Life NightmareA child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.
Night...
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Categories:
dim, autumn, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
SheolDark Knight-tress
Underneath
This gown I feel nothing
Silk less feelings
The odor of intimate apparel lessens
Vanity fare from any sun
Warrior of beauty
Where have you gone?
A...
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Categories:
dim, abuse, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The StoneThe tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
dim, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form:
Ballad
Cry of the CityWe will walk then, you and I
When daylight shuts her weary eye;
Down the streets where beggars sleep
And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.
On streets that...
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Categories:
dim, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
My KindI will not dim my light so you can shine
I will not still my voice so you can scream
I will not quench my blaze so...
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Categories:
dim, truth, woman,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Winter's Afterglowstars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.
she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...
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Categories:
dim, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Love Is My MuseWhat if love is my muse,
and you are the rosy
red poem in my soul?
Will you lead
my ink to feel
your warm air—
thaw hail in...
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Categories:
dim, dance, deep, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Philosopher*Based on Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Numb fists with bloody wrists
chained to crumbling walls.
Glazed eyes that never spy
a single truth or fault.
Dim light...
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Categories:
dim, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
dim, beauty, dark, depression, hope,
Form:
Free verse
A Life In Sepia and WatercoloursWhen I was just a little girl
I painted soaring seagulls
in a dawning sky of duck-egg blue
I painted ladybirds and whimsical butterflies
A red cottage with square-shaped...
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Categories:
dim, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
The Poems I Never WroteThese are the roads I didn't take
A pause too soon, a turn too late
Lost in the love I never spoke
The poems I never wrote
Gone are...
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Categories:
dim, lost, muse, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
My Prayer For Today
My Prayer For Today
7/22/2019
Written: by Miracle Man
Lord, guard my tongue in things I say,
Let your son Jesus be my light today.
Let each of my thoughts...
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Categories:
dim, prayer,
Form:
Couplet
Part Time PoetShe calls on me, intermittently
In fickle favor, in spotty dictionaries
My demure, distracted destiny
She is the unrequited lover, the absent mother
She is Santa, granting wishes
Upon orphan...
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Categories:
dim, angst, conflict, inspiration, jealousy,
Form:
Rhyme