Blackening Poems - Poems about Blackening

Roses and Razor Blades

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Sometimes we're sacrificed to rooms void of light 
to the caw of the crow and the scent of the night
Silk of the mind, breeched by snakes -chains of cold
moment by moment they peck away at the s...

Demonic Despair

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The whooshing of threadbare curtains cuts through deadening silence,
while shadows on the wall toy with a hermit's sanity.
The graze of unseen, jagged fingernails scrapes against sweaty flesh...

Why don’t I sleep?

...Why don't I sleep? 
Those creepy crawlies under my bed 
Those monsters in my closet- they’re
in my head instead

The rotten  apple is my heart 
I’m alone in the dark
That black blanket pressin...

Consultation

...I have asked before, though you may not know,
About how to deal with the difficulties you strain me with.

My own adventure for my true soul has begun,
And so I must make all a witness,
Or the p...

Silence Listens

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Find fortitude and strength when life gets tough
Keep going when the future's looking rough
Step back from those whose only claim to fame
Is deceitfully blackening your name.

Sadly th...

The Last Blunder

...The walls are imprisoned in silence,
A heavy, powerless silence, shattered
By voices, tears, and crowded souls.
Justice hides in the corridors of greed,
Crimes are sentences uttered in the halls,...

I Love You

...I Love You

Smokers of the world unite
Keep that ciggie burning bright
Nick O’Teen is having fun
Clogging, blackening the lung

Don’t you know that it aint smart
To let that fiend into your h...

Lilith

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I am Lilith, like a ghost pipe
under oak shadows of Tomorrow River Valley
hiding in-between hours, roots sipping moonlit juice
borrowed from Eden, a deception of men ascending
into the hollow o...

Tornado

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wild wind whipping
trees bend and thrash
leaves rudely torn off
gardens trashed

blackening skies
presage the storm
rain drops attack
and hail pellets form

shattering glass
in windows a...

opening

...bubbling blackening putrefaction
   completing the first stage
        decomposition of prime elements
      gray matter decay
   decay of prime matter
      what matters is that you save nothin...

Relics of a Bygone Day

...Roaming over the wheatfields
     their joints a-cranking
   insecticide fog blankets the air
     Oklahoma dustbowl bleeds 

   Relics of a bygone day, all angles they move
     ravaging field...

Nakba

...In the land of Abraham
The soil cries out with blood,
For Cain has killed Abel
Over 30 thousand times

Not content to take
His brother's life,
He takes the lives
Of friends and family,
Strip...

The Rage

...The sound of hooting and shouting behind the steering wheel sends a cascade of traffic crawling down the street while two men arguing about time started a heated debate in front of the gate. None of ...

Uncalled

...Uncalled,
quite uncalled, 
Stood the unexpected
rap.rap.rapping,
rapping at my door.

Disaster’s specters
   blocked my way,
As through the window
   slipped the unimaginable,
While down th...

Darkness, Blackness, I'M Such a Mess

...Can’t you see the darkness,
Formulating in your eyes?
Can’t you see the blackness,
Spreading all sorts of lies?

I’m sorry to say, but black is not my color tonight…
But yet I’m wearing it on m...

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