Best Tenebrous Poems

Shadows sleep in moonlight's silver glow,
in mountain streams and children's dreams.
They rise when sunlight opens his eyes,
awakened at first light by the kiss of dawn.
All day they follow us at measured pace...
These tenebrous shadows without a face.
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Tenebrous night steals autumn days,
Invading ink subtracts the breath of light,
With tarnished mingling edge,
With dusty dusk’s laments.

Tenebrous night of immutable grave,
Infiltrating melanin loots the golden glow,
Where criminal and crucifix sink,
Where dream and delirium drown.

We are merely complexions of being
With frivolous hearts,
Chalking pigment lines to cleave
The cloak of skin we all share,
Chasing the encasing that divides...

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Wild meadows
beneath white peaks,
a jessamine perfume
enters the nostrils...
winds resume.

Sturdy men
hop on stallions,
wolves growl 
as worried mothers
tend to their babies;
a tenebrous night
is about to fall...
way off is the dawn...
darkness covers all!

My land has no frontiers,
all stranded souls
are welcome to stay
for an evening away from dire,
they can warm-up
by the flickering campfire 
and drink their whisky;
do they have...

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O, Tenebrous

O, interminable tenebrous
ev'r bewildering,
haunting, taunting
my incessant Pierian Spring!


McCuen Copyright October 2008...

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From the eye there flows
The blood
The blood then forms
The crimson pool
From the pool there blossoms
The flower
The flower reflects
The glowing moon
From the moon there shines
The stars
The stars explode leaving
The dark
And then the night disperses...

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Exceptionally tenebrous is this evening ceiling
One lit candle would be seen for miles appealing
That within the pitch-black, a snare is concealing
A minibeast with stinger at the caudal revealing
Bronze gazes could without effort hold anything...

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A bank of dark clouds 
eliminates the sunshine, 
as rain starts to fall....

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Tympani, beat tremendous!
Like thunder roll above!
Dark matter a-tenebrous;
Knowest thou of love?

Ah, young master. In good time!
Riddles, rivers, rhyme!
Griddle, fiddle, sugar, slime.
Covert cold cut chime.

All right, sir, but in earnest;
Full, brass bull, trull, wool?
Summertime, hot clime, addressed!
Roundabout red rule!

Well, it's you two! Black and Blue!
So, what else is new?
Eggs a-light, serpents a-few?
Kittens blind that mew?

Knights of...

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I gazed in the eyes of death and death was tainted.
He shuddered at the dark hues I painted.

Merged with the darkness of the forgone
Eyes black with the dark reborn

Born to dust, I reach my throne
Obsidian throne, my one true home

I lock death in his cage
Rattling and teetering in it's edge
I smoke the sun, I bring...

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