Best Sombre Poems

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Every night,the tenebrous land of my inner existence
invades my last waking thought.
Once more this somber heart seeks you..
It seeks for you 'neath the silhouette of each sakura tree
and in the slow rise of an iridescent moon over the horizon.
It seeks for you through ashes, and...

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Floods, earthquakes, hunger,
Worldwide strife,
Severe drought, dire thirst
Reality becomes apparent.
To stay alive
And to survive, 
For many, will perish.
Humanity will be rationed,
Life as we know it abandoned,
Queuing for water, 
Earth will suffer a great dearth,
Hearts will rage and be sore,
For water, nations will go to war,
Planet Earth...

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The mines have taken my strength
	        taken my sight
                and   taken my breathe
Crawl to the light I cannot, thus my
Energy 
Nor...

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Deadly Stars Gleaming 
Death Follows in their Sorrow
Their Tears Cold and Hard...

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Sombre clouds arise
Cloudburst in the horizon 
Nightfall in the sky...

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A Silly Sombre Poem

It was on one Tuesday morning, I had some spare time,
So, began to write some poetry, a poem without a rhyme.
My composition was deep and dark, quite difficult to write,
Though I didn’t particularly like it, I knew someone who might.
Her name was...

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My memories scatter, like dust of the air, 
which once were more numerous than fish in the sea. 
Now withered, they re-tell tales of lost youth. 

At times my memories congeel and fragment, 
so much so, 
that I label myself untrustworthy.

I feel an emptyness that...

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SOMBRE SWANS

Once I could
twitter like a
lark at the
world;  now I 
must muddle my
words with the
immensity of 
granite; I have
no more playoffs
left to play with
my sombre swans
sashay through
the perfidious
hours like a shroud


© Kim van Breda—26 June 2014...

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Words are written on ministry walls
Deeds are earmarked in history
In between lie the unassuming
In the end recorded as a sombre barroom tale...

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Are you sure after the sunset 
the hunger will find the mouths
in black alley ?

I go to my ailing land.
Stand on a mass grave.
No faces, No names.

Brother, I am not bickering
I am listing on my  fingers.

Was it possible that we could
count the virgins in...

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in truth we sometimes linger here,
when darkest words compel,
thoughts are whispered in my ear,
muttered thoughts dispel,
remembered passion lingers still,
where loving eyes were held,
the Dingo at the moon it howls,
and breaks a sombre spell...

Thank you  Laura Breidenthal 

"Pitiless"

Don Johnson...

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I can see the dark hues through my window, 
it’s cloudy outside with no stars or fireflies. 
It’s been three years since the darkness has been protecting me
With its hollow emotions running through me day by day, night by night. 
But today it is different;...

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Would they notice,
If my solace escaped?
If my sombre eyes finally pinned shut.
Life is just.
I must. 
That fake smile, the painful mask I sew to my skin,
Just to feel something. 
Hanging on by a single thread. 
Each day tugs at the strings,
Test another limit.
Is it normal,...

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I reflect on what you look like now!
You were beauteous when I saw you last.
What precious gifts did time endow?
All those years of tranquil absence
As you slumbered away the time somehow.

I wonder if your eyes remain bright,
They always looked at me kindly.
I think that, if...

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