Best Sombre Poems
Below are the all-time best Sombre poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sombre poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
sombre, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors,
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...
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Categories:
sombre, analogy, how i feel,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Miracle On Ford StreetSt Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...
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Categories:
sombre, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form:
Narrative
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above
infected ripples of time,
I question the
chaos that claims
serenity through
saline serenade
of sirens, composed
with midnight...
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Categories:
sombre, black love, dark, deep,
Form:
Free verse
The ArtistStillborn
a mood of aberrant colour
a stain on the Artist’s worlds
a heart pulsating with pain
a wide range of intense ardour
mixed on a fine palette
and a...
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Categories:
sombre, art, dedication, depression, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Dormant Decession
I'm an ashen dove,
fading in zephyr
of wine valleys,
saturating in fog
upon enchanting hills,
draped in
grape-green silk,
where fantasies of forest,
sprout...
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Categories:
sombre, black love, hurt, life,
Form:
Free verse
Tapestry of Twinkling Torment collaboration with Hiya SharmaWhen you are
an agonizing
echo from a
benevolent voice,
life exhales in
mahogany haze,
spreading across the
lachrymose meadows as
scarred rivulets of
sandalwood scents,
where ceramic
rhymes slumber...
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Categories:
sombre, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...
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Categories:
sombre, environment, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished - a Collaboration With Robert LindleyMystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts...
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Categories:
sombre, fate, lost love, memory,
Form:
Romanticism
When a Poet's Promise DiesI tried to create a poetic dream,
to fulfill our promise,
but we became a victim
to fate's wounding ways.
My flower garden lies in ruins,
suffering in silence...
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Categories:
sombre, death, lost love, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Love's Last HeartbeatIn the moorlands of desires,
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs,
In the dream...
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Categories:
sombre, angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Ceremony of birds
There is a sombre silence,
as mist veils morning air.
A plethora of feathers
float among dew drops.
A ceremony of birds,
heads slumping,
soundless and homeless,
perch upon rooftops,
observing fallen...
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Categories:
sombre, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Seduce Me In Black and White - Erotic Verse
Seduce me in Black and White
You reach toward my face
and touch my lips
Tracing the slightly raised pink curve of them
gently - lightly - before
the urge...
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Categories:
sombre, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
ImagineImagine all the people
who trade in human life,
imagine all the reasons
given to this particular vice.
I visualize the rivers
that run with coagulated blood,
I visualize the tyrant
that...
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Categories:
sombre, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly CherishedWhen In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished
Mystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto...
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Categories:
sombre, art, beautiful, longing, love,
Form:
Romanticism