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Best Pitch Dark Poems

Below are the all-time best Pitch Dark poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of pitch dark poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: pitch dark, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse



Snow Angels
Here I lie in the solace of my bed

Wrapped up in these sheets of grey

Looking out past the frosted glass

Out into the pitch dark of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitch dark, friend, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tale of Billy the Kid
William Bonny AKA Billy The Kid
A Tale Of Billy The Kid
By Robert Gorelick

“Quien esta?”

Bang!  It’s over, 
you’re a legend now, 
Billy.

Born in Hell’s Kitchen...

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Categories: pitch dark, character, death,
Form: Metrical Tale
Artistic Night Sky
As dark canvas unfurls bit by bit
Randomly gulping down acrylic paints of dusk
To satisfy his own thirst, not for long, to sprawl
Into a magical cosmos...

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Categories: pitch dark, night, sky,
Form: Acrostic
The Color of Poetry
As the ink touches my writing pad every letter seems to glow.
I feel I'm going mad watching sentences light so bright like a rainbow!
 ...

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Categories: pitch dark, fantasy, inspirational, on writing
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Black and White
His moods
Change fast
But they
Don’t last
That long;
From low 
To high
A song
Or sigh
That comes
With deep
Sad flow
A touch 
Warm glow
So soft
Which speaks
Of love.
Then peaks
To sharp...
He thumps
The key
Stale, flat,
Heart...

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Categories: pitch dark, music,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Van Helsing
A gentleman dressed all in black, hides amongst the shadow realm,
This inquisitions exorcist fights on the altar of justice
And faith, a white knight of the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitch dark, adventure, betrayal, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She of Flavorful Beauty
I feel a bit of envy – hue chartreuse-
when she, like a tart (sweet lemon with lime)
walks in; all the boys she seems to enthuse.
Tangerine...

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Categories: pitch dark, color,
Form: Sonnet
Three Questionku Poems
Find furniture
In a pitch dark room
Do you use your shin bone?

A diamond gift
Female Viagra
Could they be the same thing?

Look now and see
Really ugly sheep
Where virgin...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitch dark, humorous, poetry,
Form: Questionku
Beautiful
Beautiful





Best of His creation, we the humans,
Endeavour to be kind to all life and nature,
Actually exploit its vibrant subtle being,
Unending mysteries of vast deep seas,
The...

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Categories: pitch dark, beautiful, universe,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Postmodern Nostalgia
A covert curtain raiser pulls a string and marvels at an epic scene

	Though parsimonious in essence the stage appears rather obscene

		Black cross and pitch dark...

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Categories: pitch dark, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Into the Darkness
He held his detached face in his hand                 ...

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Categories: pitch dark, anger,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Eloping In a Blizzard-A True Story
**Eloping in a Blizzard**


In a blizzard, our car stalled
in total darkness in The Great Divide.
The wind like a witch cackling in the pitch dark 
of...

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Categories: pitch dark, adventure, marriage, snow, wedding,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Voices
"The voices howl in the dark frightens even the brave."
Quote by poet

Voices, do you hear them in the pitch dark.
They drum from pressure within moist...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pitch dark, wind,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Lux Vitae Love Stories of the Fey: In the Clouds
 
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey:

“In the Clouds”



“What are you looking at Mum?”
“They come in the clouds you know”, she said to her...

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Categories: pitch dark, adventure, fairy, fantasy, journey,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs