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Blackening Poems - Poems about Blackening

Premium Member Roses and Razor Blades
... 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......

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Categories: blackening, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Demonic Despair
... 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......

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Categories: blackening, dark, death, deep, gothic,
Form: Free verse



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......

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Categories: blackening, cry, deep, hurt, sleep,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: blackening, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence Listens
... 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......

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Categories: blackening, character, corruption,
Form: Rhyme



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,......

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Categories: blackening, africa, america, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: blackening, relationship, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Lilith
... 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......

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Categories: blackening, analogy, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tornado
... 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......

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Categories: blackening, nature, rain, storm, weather,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: blackening, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: blackening, farm, murder, technology,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: blackening, arabic, jewish, sad, violence,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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Categories: blackening, anger, creation, garden, growth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: blackening, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
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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Categories: blackening, angst, courage, hope, how
Form: Lyric

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