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Blacknesses Poems - Poems about Blacknesses


Get Cut: A Collection of Unloved Poems
...26-7-2024 Underneath the skin, coiled blood hissed. And behind his sinister grin, A hundred teeth hid a recoiled tongues twist. His speech blunders, but within his eyes seethe, Words wherein the......

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Categories: blacknesses, absence, art, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Town Survives By Fishing Early Light
...My horse's haunches sway, Saunter up hillocks and down a valley path, Above a ridge off and on: a village where some people fish, Phosphorescent flotsam washed ashore. Green embers breathe as ......

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Categories: blacknesses, adventure, childhood, growing up,
Form: Free verse



Angeline
...he had been without her in the empty hotel bed for two nights, two sweating quiet blacknesses, without shuffling or snores, or jittery leg kicking; now all he wanted was for the moon t......

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Categories: blacknesses, absence, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Depths of the Earth
...Black raindrops race down the slick plastic coat The muddy coal drops, fall one by one from the sleeve That is empty. The other hand, as black as the raindrops Grips the sooty rail, attached to t......

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Categories: blacknesses, absence, angst, bereavement, time,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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