Dark Life Poems | Examples

It’s coming

Soon you’ll know.
The truth will be laid bare.
Soon you’ll realise.
It’s worthless to worry, to feel or care.
Soon you’ll see.
The reality of the animal man.
Soon you’ll know.
What you’ve known many times before.
Soon you’ll see.
The sun and moon no more.
Soon you’ll feel.
Alien to human hands.
Soon you’ll be.
Dust upon the land.

newspaper business has brought us far

newspaper business has brought us far
to these territories where desert rivers
descend from    huge clouds cultivated
but we live on        twisted lips to build
something for              those coming in
oh you who love                   this place
by the tourist book                 is a man
who loves a woman                         by  
a guidebook of sex positions          now

Dark Life

Can we just not talk ?
Everything that will come up
you will only accuse and not understand.
All I got under my feet are unfriendly rock.
And there is no one to light the dark life
that settled on my land.

(18.07.2025)

Reaper

The Reaper I know,
You respect no one. 
When you decide to take one home,
Age, color, accomplishments mean nothing to you
In your court. 

You harvest every soul
At your most convenience. 
In life's prime and low, you strike hard
Without any consideration. 

You cause unexplained weeping
And a void that will never be filled. You take when you want,
Without giving notice. 

Who are we to question you?
You have control over all authorities. 
Where fairness is not discussed 
Oh, I don't expect you to be fair,
For your existence is not fair.

The colour of greed

How is it that greed
corrodes thus the heart
that so many are willing
to compromise thoughts of afterlife
so easily discarding aspirations
for eternal peace ?



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

How sharp those failings cry

I look upon the world today as I have done all my life.
A laugh, a smile, worry or ok, it needs to be met head-on for all its strife.

Some days I’ll wake and feel the sun recharging my fading smile.
Some days I’ll wake and no matter how bright the sky sorrow will darken my mind.

I’ll stand and pack the bags of life and tie them around my time. I’ll carry history known to me no matter how sharp those failings cry.

I’ll see reflection of someone I once knew hidden behind these soulless eyes. I’ll feel the air across my face and try to feel alive.

Trustworthiness

Trustworthiness 

Has Both Hands In Your Pockets To
"Help You Out A Little Bit,"
How's That Feel For You There,
Alright? Goood.

-Gray Squirrel

05-20-2025

Flashbacks

Flashbacks come when I’m alone,
a smell, a sound
and suddenly, I’m back there again.

Light and Dark

Light leads darkness,
Dark follows light,

Both learned to embrace each other,
And listen to each other’s plight.

Light wanted to illuminate the world,
Give every corner the warmth of sun,
Leave no corner untouched.

Dark wanted to calm the world,
And give the peace of night,
Give the world peace of mind, from their little trifes.

Light and Dark so different,
But their bond was set for sure,
Light needs Dark and Dark needs Light;
Without this bond,
Life couldn’t go on like before.

A Spectral Owl

Cloaked in a fitting grey suit and bow tie,
She floats like paper kites across meadows.
From a hollow in a tree, her eyes pry~
Her loud hoot startles nearby sleeping crows.

The spectral owl, with her faint, surprised look,
Watches as the crows flee into the dark.
Then silence reigns, curbed only by a brook,
And chirps of birds in the dark forest park.

Within calm meadows nestled in the hills,
The great grey owl sights frogs, snakes, and mudfish.
She floats on broad wings, drawn by hunger’s thrills~
A feast just enough to grant her one wish.

As dusk gives way to the coming sunlight,
To a hidden branch, she flew for a nap~
To await the call of another night,
And avoid the birder’s photograph trap.

Mankinds BS

I tire of the all the B.S

Thats spews from the mouths of mankind

Spoken with false sincerity

Good intentions undermined


No decency , no conscience

Souls darkened by deceit

Void of compassion and kindness

Hearts of solid concrete


Good, kind ,caring humans

Are the saving grace

To still have belief in mankind

To keep and maintain faith

Unleashing more fears

my love life is like a plot in a grand novel,
     where dawn stands tall,
yet dusk must kneel
   and grovel.

each chapter of it dims as twilight nears,
     unleashing darkness that feeds on
the carcass of
   waning years.

yet expectation remains high...
     waiting for another page
to turn and turn
   until old age.

meanwhile, the plot keeps thickening...
     bringing to life
more of the fears
   in a world full of strife.

yet love keeps its shine in the distance,
     like a mirage that gleams in space,
offering false satiation,
   only to fade into non-existence.

but the story will never end...
     until the Author of all things
chooses to write an epilogue
   of how much of his love we all depend.

SPIRITUAL ESSENCE

The UNIVERSE is the dark conscious intelligent energetic            


                  FORCE that's a SOURCE of cryptic codes


                        which ignites a DIVINE light to manifest


                               embodied SOULS who live to


                                     carry the SPIRIT of EARTH 

                                                 
                                            with the CONNECTION and LOVE 

                                                          
                                                   to/for ALL living things..

The Dark and the Light

The Dark And The Light


I am a poet nether dark or light,
but then there are days, that is what I write.
So when in the sun and everything’s bright,
that’s what I sing in the dark of the night.


By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison

the sound of life

we breath in new
   the air is fresh
we breathe out stale
     the air is old
it's the circle of life
that keeps 
                    all alive

as the machine of existence
drives forward 
         along the road to mystery
and into the unknown light
but sometimes that once bright light
                                                        fades

the road becomes dark
                      and leads to purgatory
the darkness feeds and feeds
                           to satisfy its hunger
 an hunger that lurks in the dark

then the road leads to blue skies
       sunny days of no rain
palm trees on a sunny beach
      tranquillity in the golden rays
while sitting on golden sand
looking out to waters blue
                                         and deep

        as we breath in
                 and
       we breathe out

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