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Best Obsidian Poems

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Obsidian
An almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty

But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....

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Categories: obsidian, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: obsidian, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gemini Heart
Meet me in forever,
where the moon enclasps
the enchanting 
   heaven above us,
for you, are the music 
     playing on...

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Categories: obsidian, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Midnight Romance
Midnight Romance

Dusk falls quickly on cerulean skies
Day morphs from ash of roses to sable
Our love's vision flashes before my eyes
Midnight romance, like an ancient fable

Charcoal...

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Categories: obsidian, desire, dream, imagery, longing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Midnight Romance
We first met at the Obsidian Bar, 
on a night that I will never forget.
She’s dressed to the nines; like a movie star
in charcoal satin...

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Categories: obsidian, dance, new year, romance,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Thoughts of a Table
When all is but 
dark and dreary,
and coldness wraps the 
silhouette of 
my wooden surface,
I listen to the 
wafer thin whispers
echoing in whimsy tones-
when the...

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Categories: obsidian, deep, giving, loneliness,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Black Cockatoo
"Black Cockatoo"



I was white
as pure snow cotton
thread through the eye of God's needle

Black 
he was, 
not Egyptian, more ancient 

he walked 
in the Dreamtime 
with...

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Categories: obsidian, romance, sensual, silence,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Silent pain behind art
The art was most masterful on the dark canvas,
portraying an artist's mind when feeling anxious.
His palette compiled of pastels in shades of grey,
weaved brushstrokes in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obsidian, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Moon Child
Dear Life

I’m lost within words 
   unwritten between 
     pastel pages of the past, 
Yet I weave my love...

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Categories: obsidian, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens
"Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens"





I walk beside you 
in your dreams,
you are always in me 
warm and pounding, 
twin heart, 
burning bright flame, 
beautiful addiction
captive...

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Categories: obsidian, desire, longing, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Black On Black
Black
The shade of void;
containing 
universes within universes.

Black is the onyx eye of God;
the obsidian mirror of prognostication
the future’s revelations.

Black is the beauty that highlights color;
pigmentation...

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Categories: obsidian, appreciation, art, color, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swaying Slowly
Stepping into the dance
Gently taking your hand in mine
Entering the realm of infinite possibilities
Where passion and desire breathe as one
An eternal hug
Enveloping our laughter and...

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Categories: obsidian, fantasy, love, passion, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Song Of Demise
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
I think I made you up inside my...

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Categories: obsidian, angst, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Casket of Chaos
I am like faded leaves,
beneath my frail feet,
failing your forbidden name
that crushed the petals of 
blossoming hopes,
dusted with dark 
obsidian nightmares,
enclosed in 
seeds of discontent,
sprinkled...

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Categories: obsidian, angst, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Graceful
"These woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
But I have promises to keep, 
And miles to go before I sleep, 
And miles to go before...

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Categories: obsidian, death, deep, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

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