Best Moonless Poems

Moonless Nights over South Sudan

heartless Moon, don’t tell me
that you weren’t looking 
when soulless soldiers dragged me
from my mama’s terrified arms
in our village in Rubkona County

I know you covered your ears
so you wouldn’t hear
my screams piercing the fetid air
as those butchers dropped their pants
repeatedly ripping my body and soul apart

and I saw you cover your...

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It was the Eve of a brand new year,
so I’d gone out on my porch to say goodbye
to the prior year, having heard a blue moon should appear.
As I was looking all around me up into the sky,
no sign of a moon at all was I to spy!

Farther out from my front porch, I looked...

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Is our love a dance macabre? 
A dilly dallying with death? 
Or a mystic encounter of unabated love? 
Will it last?  Will it end? 
So many questions left unanswered, 
So many uncertainties attested, 
All cumulative in a death wish 
As emotions run devilishly amok. 
  
My soul screams with this unpredictability, 
Its echoes...

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moonless curse of night
i seek that one voice able
to break the silence



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Posted on September 16, 2022...

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the silence
of the harvested field-
moonless night


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*1st in Shiki kukai October 2014,Kigo theme

© kash poet (kashinath karmakar)

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City lights.
Notes out of tune
On Silence’s Stave....

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Moonflowers blooming in the garden,
Fragrant mist bathing the night,
Cold moon fading away quietly;
Stars unite warming the sky.


Hija de la luna, 7/26/14
For nette onclaud: Passion of A Jeu Ju...

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winged nocturnal creatures
within the confines of my mind
beat circles high and low
hunting in the dead of night

i sense the flapping of their wings
in moonless starless skies

sullen pleas of captive demons
weary ghosts and unhinged angels
reach far beyond my cliffs of sanity
in the haunting dead of silence



AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on April 25, 2022...

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In one moment, the night shattered
27 years of dreams.
In that moment, my love mattered
as little as my screams.
The moment your blood spattered
across the torn seams
of my heart, empty and tattered;
was the moment, my schemes 
and grand illusions were scattered
as eclipsed moonbeams.
In that dark moment, as the gun clattered
to the floor....

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Can't you see,
how the moon beams drunk the spring,
for the blind stars won't look in it?!
Can't you hear,
their slap on the sand,
wcich killed the sleeping buttercup,
because it declined its colour?!
Can't you feel
that the yellow curse
is going to obsess my hair
and kill our love?!
Therefore,wipe out with a rubber
the moon on the picture,
before you have coloured it...

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Hauling up
the debris of your life
   in failing light.

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    Bending like grass.
Standing like a solid rock-
    where did you reach ?

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   The fatal night- 
to remove the downy velvet
   from your sharp antlers.


Satish Verma...

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Cried out eyes crimson,
The only roses to my valentine 
The mind’s shut up
The heart’s stirred up
Tearing through pain and doubt
Broken and shutout
To find the moon rock 
Gone on a permanent lunar walk

Perfect silence
Noiseless 
Motionless quietness  
Emotionless stillness 
An ambiance of loneliness
A quote to the loveless
Mindless
Moonless

All her shining glory gone 
All my life’s glow’s done
My...

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In need of socks on my feet
frantically I search the floor 
naked and depleted
feeble minded, missing home..

drowning on the surface
of black river, floating alone
she swallowed the stars
selfishly born, kingdom unworn

scattered pieces of intentions
fed with contempt
on a cold unused bed
kindled animation, moonless breath...

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When I was a teenager
Nothing seemed to be fair
So I rebelled
And I dyed my hair

It was as black as a moonless Halloween night
Which echoed my spirit to my poor parents fright

My days spun listlessly in an endless slog
My core boiled and bubbled up
infected soup of smog 

Throughout my journey many feelings lingered
Handicapped by sensations 
my...

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“Oh, no”, she cried from quickly waking,
Feet were freezing, knees were shaking.
Potty time was overtaking on this moonless night.
 
But the room was dark and hard to see,
The door, the floor, or anything. 
And soon she was imagining a multitude of frights.

She thought she saw a horde of goblins lined against the walls.
Where just before...

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