Dark. Poems - Poems about Dark.

There was a chill in the air that night, as the taste of spun cotton candy and stale popcorn floated through the breeze. Lifeless clouds hung in the sky, moving swiftly past an ever-broken moon. Remnants of rain clung to weeping blades of grass, as a shattered heart cracked under a ribcage in disbelief. The...

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Night, Ageless and porous, Sang screeches of fireflies of Crescendo-diminuendo sparks. What hour? In the midst of the hustles, I lost my hoursight Different, tonight, is my eyesight, seeing even Through the darkest foliage of gentle, but sinister Caress sway. On the broken, cracked slabs, squatting, dark torsos! Pensive, broken, sad, old and so good the Work of Italian sculptors. Further deep in searching glare, the hardened Mats...

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now ... dance for me … eyes of polished onyx pierce me like the keen edge of a scalpel, deftly wielded ... the blood of my black heart flowing in and around you - warm and welcomed to your wings and wants - the aspiration of our spirits charged air between us as still as ruin while the world spins outward ever a cacophony of color ... calm...

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a ghastly … prospect ... the ground torn open before him a wound in the earth that called to his dark heart pulled on his better judgement like lead ... warm, the darkness - warm and peaceful, if but a plunge away he turned back around to the giant chess board it's alternate squares dancing - monochromatic patchwork of fealty and fate with just seven...

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Don't know how I missed it, How I got so complicit, How I overlooked those parts of you. And now I'm in danger, The man I love turned into a stranger, And I'm starting see we've got more problems than a few. Holy F%ck do I feel stupid. How did I even do this? How did I let this...

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The world in black and blue, no visible outline, the colors blur. Headlights bright red, and the people covered in smoke as I stand in the back- alley surrounded by old graffiti stains and a half eaten tuna fish sandwich. The alley cats devour the carcass leaving the bones and eyes behind. I look at the eyes and I see my...

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My demons know me, they know where to hurt. They quietly tighten their grip on the soul of the man under my shirt. They think that this evil is something I fear. They think that it’s easy to create and control my tears. But age makes a difference between a boy and a man. Age creates...

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You were always so good At hiding yourself in the dark I tried and I tried To throw you out Of the furthest recesses of my mind And somehow you are still there Embedded in the deepest crevices of my brain Where I couldn't see you Lurking there in the blackness For thirty years Waiting ... for one of those days When I'm down and...

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It's the slumber and sleep where men go so far Carrying the bravery of walking through fire On burning feet never to surrender: Insomnia stares at me in the dark With black steamy eyes that scare. Lying in bed the whole night not To sleep,but to count their fingers, Watch misty vapours they can't hold, In the bright glow of...

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At 7 she is at her father’s mercy She will be shown no mercy A life with absolutely no love She will be like a lonely dove Sitting in the nest Doing her best She will never taste true love She will never be as free as a dove Being groped and touched by her dad Is a life that is so very sad She...

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they slither down the long halls coiling thoughts like vine-sharp calls calm defies walls lean in with breathing cracks truth waits, but never walks back you flicker—don’t ask why their whispers rise like flood and tide but roots hold beneath the lie you break—and light slips quietly by...

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Sponsor's name: Nette Onclaud Contest title: VIBRATIONS FROM A VERSO Poetry Contest Date: July 26, 2025 A sky like a pressed coal Stars like embers Shadows unforgiving Absence of light Dust-laden silent air Faint warmth enters The dark brushes the skin Scream of the night!...

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The Missing Ouija Board An Unholy Whodunnit in Verse I summoned ghosts at midnight’s glare, At Cemetery Gate—with snacks to spare. We were just spelling “B-U-R-I-E-D” when—Zap! The Ouija Board vanished... like a ghost on a gap. Who stole my Ouija Board from cemetery?! Was it the undead... or Karen...

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Incinerating us one night coal black my lover lit a match in a hot flash and things he said cannot be taken back as cinders sift into heart’s bottom ash!...

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Vibrations from a Verso 7-25-25 Sponsor: Nette Onclaud Theme Chosen: Dark Coal of Night ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dark Coal of Night Moonbeams, morning’s prophet, Chase coal of night Into wombs of white fire As flames imbue Dreams with clarity’s gems Facets of light, Glittering stars of dawn ~ Diamonds of dew. ...

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