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DREARY
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Line Gauthier
| Senryu |
dark, life, rain,
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To The Hilt
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Gregory R Barden
| Free verse |
analogy, break up, dark,
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Bite
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Nina Parmenter
| Rhyme |
dark, light,
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Feeding Desire
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Wren Rushing
| Rhyme |
dark, mystery,
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Mariah of Magdala
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BERYL Adhiambo
| Narrative |
abuse, black love, dark,
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Dry
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Catelyn Meeker
| Rhyme |
conflict, dark, deep, emotions,
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Circle Of Hell
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Trevor McLeod
| Quatrain |
analogy, assonance, corruption, dark,
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Host
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Catelyn Meeker
| Rhyme |
anxiety, change, crazy, dark,
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14 Years
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Axl A.
| Quatrain |
dark, poems, poetry, poets,
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Hallelujah
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Catelyn Meeker
| Rhyme |
anxiety, christian, conflict, dark,
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Nocturnum
by Diana Almajan-Guta
Nocturnum
We lie beneath the slowly waning moon,
Her sharp shape emerging like a fine fang,
Metamorphosed from the bright afternoon
And now -- upon a...
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Sonnet |
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Categories:
dark, 12th grade, abuse, allusion,
Whiskey
by John Castellenas
Whiskey
Lovely Liz
With pen and paper I write, spilled blood upon notions of things wanted and so damn far away.
We secretly abated love and you became...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
dance, dark, drink, longing,
Scary Phantasmagoria
by Susan Ashley
Assaulting me! The darkness comes to be
in devil’s guise. Phantoms haunt my mind;
in sleep paralysis I cannot flee -
insanity bleeds through my broken rind.
I’m...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
abuse, dark, dream, evil,
Untapped Mind
by TS Lewis
What if I untied
my poetry and
bound you
with it
Ligature marks
left on your wrist
Would you struggle
to get free
or accept
your fate
for freedom's sake?
All the noise
you talked
beforehand
seems...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
dark, desire, lust,
Menthol Breakdown
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
Warlords love the crack cackling sound ...
faint vapors smelled worldwide,
when twine toking on the choking peace pipe
Lying lips huffing and puffing,
blowing smoke out the...
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Ode |
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Categories:
dark, death, truth, wisdom,
Look At The Way At How You Treat Your Lady
by The Brooklyn Six Project
Look at the way at how you treat your lady
She seems bitter and confused
Darkness sadly surrounds her
As a result of your abuse
She put her trust...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
dark, loss, sad love,
Nothing Lasts Forever
by Rebecca Solomon
The darkness in my eyes
The calmness of my heart
Vanished into cold thin air
All crushed and fallen apart
My eyes year for it
And so does my heart
Feels...
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Categories:
dark, deep, depression, emotions,
Try to see
by Dark Mistress
Struggling further within your mind.
I am now broken, lost here in end or time.
Sinking as you firmly hold.
The noose now tightens. I do...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
betrayal, dark,
The Moon and Me
by Brandy Nicole
this halo of light beckons freely, as darkness dwells deeply,
causing my beating heart to move, quickly -
let love taste the night, these luscious...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
dark, light, moon, night,
This is the apocalypse
by Matt Forshay
This is the apocalypse, we are all
going to die! Pray for salvation but
the sky won't hear your desperate
plea the flames are at...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
dark, death, deep, fantasy,
Changing My Ways For Brighter Days
by robin davis
Inside a safety net I stayed
Back and forth I always swayed
To avoid the complications
From any kind of confrontations
It doesn't matter what I did
Or the times...
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Categories:
change, dark, happy, hurt,
Truly Numb
by Tyrell Murdock
Some think to utter you are numb is dumb.
Like a frayed twine, emotion becomes blind.
Can't cry, could only voice a...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
9th grade, dark, deep,
Some Of The Sunshine Disappears
by The Brooklyn Six Project
Some of the sunshine disappears
When a loved one sadly passes away
You think of all the good times you had
Each and every day
Those...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
dark, death, grief, loss,
LAYING
by Line Gauthier
laying awake
no moon
at my window
posted on September 19, 2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
angst, dark, longing, moon,
The Dawning
by David O'Haolin Whalen
With Eyes Not Yet Open
The soft whisking sound
Of a broom ‘pon the floor
The cooing of Doves
Near the window
The creak and squeak
From floorboards and doors
Conversations carried...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, dark, day,
Personal Hell
by Matt Forshay
do you see it? through the darkness?
It is the end of the route that you chose.
do you feel the heat and the pain on your...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
dark, death, depression, emotions,
Deathbed Conversion or Perversion
by Maurice Rigoler
An old priest about to die
looked his confessor in the eye:
I never violated my celibacy
much less toyed with my chastity.
Pray on my behalf to the...
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Light Verse |
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Categories:
dark, humor,
Mask
by Jordan Foster
Bellowed in ones soul he found the truth.
Blatantly before the mask of whispered lights,
Was the prison of genius minds of every generation.
Shadows of the ever...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
anxiety, cry, dark, dream,
DRIP-DRY
by Kim Rodrigues
feeling exposed as mud splatters,
the cotton clinging and drenched
chattering teeth, seething relief
as the sun warms the rancid smile
of bulbous peaches pressing,
depressing and like an eclipse,
a...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
dark,
UNDER A DOME
by Line Gauthier
Too weak to fight
The end is near
My days are numbered
The will to live is all but gone
My thoughts are not my own
I see the world...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
dark, death, feelings, life,