Best Somber Poems

I am somber
like November days
and my words speak
weak, as if through tired tongue

I see the trees
stand naked
reaching their limbs
across the stream
as if touching
and comforting each other
from the bitter cold
that's settling in

sometimes I envy them
I want to stand naked
arch my back
reach towards hands
and feel the comfort...

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Somber is the color of the day...
Window glass distorts the view, of the dreary afternoon
Prisms of light cavorting outside, are reflected from the dew
and rainbows are splashed, from an old pewter lamp 
       as if to divert me of...

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She fell from the light, into a world shadowed in gray. 
                                 ...

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Clouds had gathered, air was mild
We climbed steep rocks among the wild
There, hidden so high beneath the trees
Were two marked graves among the leaves

We climbed steep rocks among the wild
This lonely place so long forsaken
Were two marked graves, among the leaves
Ingraved were the names of...

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Somber is the color of the day
   Prisms of lamplight reflection
On darkened window glass
   The rainbow of color seeping through
      Stained glass puzzle pieces 
           ...

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As the storm clouds of unforeseen gloom hover low
with the shattered sky’s diffused light of uncertain future,
I gift my soul sinking within the abyss of dire darkness,
glints of lingering hope from the cornucopia of nature.

The symphony of spring cascades in the cadence of air,
in the...

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Staple diets tainted gray
still pesticides they spray
gallops horse of dapple grey 
fourth beast say, ”hell’s to pay”

 
as life bubbles into shape
for human illusion’s sake
two thousand twelve’s wake
Love in life is not a fake

Somber tones may meander
worldly concepts detest a new face
many old faces doth...

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As the sun sets
and the twilight comes out,
as the birds and squrriels are no where in sight.

As the whores and pimps sit on street corners,
waiting for street lights to turn from green to red.
As cadillacs stop and roll their windows down.

I can her the faint...

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Whilst sitting at her piano,
A tune it just came out,
It was so full of sadness,
We all had so much doubt.

Lydia was her name,
She was on the way to fame,
Her music was a special gift,
And gave us such a lift.

The townsfolk they all gathered around,
To greet...

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step into the train 
as cherry blossoms kiss you 
a fragrant goodbye....

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A somber dawn breaks upon a hillside 
     strewn with hedges of dew 
         drenched blackberries


Written 8/19/22
FIRST PLACE
Your Thoughts On Blackberries Contest
Sponsor:  Matt Caliri...

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the bleakness of which was unparalleled 
your weakness will no doubt be up held
havoc has consumed a once fertile mind
the girls and the women have been so kind
as to bring candy and cherries to my home
turned away to remain in my steel dome
no visitors, no...

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With hunger comes a somber head, 
Thus weakened by the lack of bread; 
The filament of will is thinned, 
The crop is filled with empty wind; 

And time is creeping like a stone, 
An urgent face in pace forlorn; 
And while some goods are left...

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Somber psalm, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Salmo sombrio

(from Carlos Bousono’s first book of poems, written before he was 22 : Subida al amor (Ascent into love), 1945, and dedicated to the 1977 Nobel laureat, Vicente Aleixandre.) 


Do not pass by me , O...

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Wind swifts across the leaves that fall in the arid ground
Rain drops falls from the sky as bewailing your demise 
Dark clouds gloom the firmament evoking a somber air
A red flower bud blooms as a great promise of a new life










Nayda Ivette
12-12-2015...

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