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Best Dusk Poems

Below are the all-time best Dusk poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dusk poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Cinder Girl
An ember sparked will softly glow,
and fed by fuel, will grow and grow.
I once was cinder, sparked by you,
first timid. . . till the flames...

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Categories: dusk,
Form: Rhyme



One Brief Moment
Look...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: dusk, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Like Zephyr Breeze
Before I ever saw those eyes      How deeply I loved you.

Before you read my first thought    ...

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Categories: dusk, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member September
"September, beautiful month of my birth, is nigh, but I cannot feel glad."

September, drifting in with glow of moon,
you stifle Summer’s ardor. . . and...

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Categories: dusk, nature, sad, sun, time,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member The Stone
The 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: dusk, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: dusk, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member How Do I Hold the Wind
On the edge of silence 
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...

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Categories: dusk, grief, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member listen to life -
have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you...

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Categories: dusk, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sham of My Humanity
Evergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...

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Categories: dusk, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Time Slips By
                 
 Crystal winged hourglass flows muted gold sand
as...

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Categories: dusk, faith, love, time,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Amidst the Darkened Veils
'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment

the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in...

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Categories: dusk, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vanilla Visions
When the 
  moon muses 
to the 
  melody of memories, 
roaming wisps 
   of vanilla gently 
flow through 
 ...

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Categories: dusk, death, deep, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Periwinkle Promises
Close your eyes
inhale roses-
love-glazed steam 
of insatiable thirst;
place your thoughts 
upon my heart,
feel my 
voice s w i r l i n g
in sync with...

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Categories: dusk, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Belongings
Shadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...

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Categories: dusk, loss, love, me, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desires of the Heart
When my heart
was no longer content in solitude;

I asked;

"Oh my lonely heart, 
what is it that you desire?"

Softly it whispered

for her heart beats to ease...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dusk, dream, love, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs