Best Noir Poems

On misted streets of fog and pain
           With lamp post lighted thoughts of rain
The city, bleak in heart’s demise
                Is...

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Nether and far, darkness among stars
A painless realm daunting hidden charm
Neutrons and Adams, the beginning
Above the heavens, gods even sinning

Crimes of the universe
Negatives and positives
Black holes letting the evil escape
Crippling this world with 

Left over hate

Tears overwhelm	
		And saturate


Ubiquitous whims
	In rhythm sings
		At fates door	
			No more...

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Le Rat Noir – Translation of Iris Clayton’s « The Black Rat » by T. Wignesan

(Iris Clayton of the Wiradjuri tribe in New South Wales was born in 1945. One of nine children, six of the elder children were forcibly removed by the authorities and...

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Film Noir

By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from a cigarette in her hand
trailing upward and blendng with mist
and...

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A man sinks his breath deep into a saxophone 
He fills a smoky room with its tenor tone
All the clichés are here 
From the femme fatale to the trodden tramp
The atmosphere borders on camp  
 Be you from a Manhattan high rise or a...

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Film Noir

By the lamppost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from a cigarette in her hand
trailing upward and blending with the...

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----the frost of fog licked
trees and tulips by the web
of a black widow----...

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“fantôme du noir chevalier”



whither doth thee cometh from?
Strange voice that I see
Coldness of ire burns 
the skin beneath sheets
paper white guise
black ink heart bleeding within - 
stranger the walls do speak here
in the mirror swimming See
the lost reflections of souls
the misguided forlorn 
disenchanted do scry
their...

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The sidewalks sweat on August nights
Typewriter pounds as city heats
A neon sheen imbues the blight
	
Alone I smoke with soul contrite
An ashtray's blush, belies discrete 
The sidewalks sweat on August nights

An earring left at passion’s height 
Rewinds the yearn of lust replete
A neon sheen imbues the...

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Still trying to make sense of it all after all these years
Still weighing-measuring and short changing my own self;
There isn’t much hope I’ll find any positive answers;
Especially out here where the natural order of things live
    And the innocents who should have...

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From Noir to Blanche

The lovely daisies closed my eyes
I dreamt of angels in disguise
Who walked upon my mortal land
Dressed only in their black and gray
The somber clothing very bland

They gathered flowers as they passed
Then tossed them in the summer air
As they alit  bright colors...

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One of two, not yet perfect
Angry for the intrusion
Envious of your insight
Never will see it again
I think you're brilliant
I finally did
I already knew
Afraid of the point of view
Wondered when you would make mine
I've seen what you've done...

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NYC nior in black and white

NYC nior in black and white 

Dark landscapes 1957 NYC 
of automats radio city and hotdog stands 
memories of things past 

Take us back to lucid dreams of light and shadows cast 
set the stage late night dark wet NY...

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under the moon and murky alleyways
i roam with rats the mean and rain-slicked streets
a private eye, taking whatever pays
i search for her, whose husbands bloody sheets...
paid me to find her and his rich receipts

with-in the fog was smoke like fog in air
from her short cigarette...

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Piles of books in the corner
An endless list of
Films and shows
To binge watch
Too much time on our hands
Slowly flows
Into the next day
And goes on repeat
And here we go
Into the next day
And again
And again
Waking up
Hoping for something new
A sliver of something
To look forward to the next...

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