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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


Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
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



Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sombre, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Miracle On Ford Street
St 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 Artist
Stillborn
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
Premium Member Tapestry of Twinkling Torment collaboration with Hiya Sharma
When 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Mystical 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
Premium Member When a Poet's Promise Dies
I 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sombre, death, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Love's Last Heartbeat
In 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Imagine
Imagine 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
Premium Member When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished
When 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

Book: Shattered Sighs