Dark Fate Poems

These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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My voice is filled with broken tremors, 
As I describe the layers of my pain. 
Each breath blows out the bitter emptiness,
And I hear myself...

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Do others often ask themselves, 
" Are there days without darkness...
when another storm shows fierceness?
Has hope dimmed for selfish reasons? "

And the living pay little...

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Mirrors to shatter as soon as she struts past
Her eyes can deceive the relief you perceived
Choke on your words, lose sight at her arrival
Unable to...

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The battlefield is filled with blood,

Washing the whole field like an ocean that will never end,

My comrades kill to defend themselves,

I kill to survive

My enemies...

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Barbarity's own Deity,
The "Black Knight" of perversity:
Ascending through gross ignorance,
Descending on to Hell's province.

This callous god despises light
And seeks the deepest, darkest night.
It spawns a...

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In earth's mournful sigh, the day does fade,
A quietus bow, as light to dark is made.
The sun descends; its fervor now grown still,
As night's embrace,...

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Charlotte

You were smiling at me
As you were looking right 
Through him
Or were you 
Looking right through me
As you were smiling at him?
False subtleties 
From dew...

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a rattler flicking its 
split tongue...gathering
chemical messengers~ Prairie Dog
without a prayer

vulture, periscope downward
navigates a granulate sea, 
follows the wavering flow of tracks~
just over a grilling...

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Inviting him for a meeting at our Rosebank Park.
Sitting together on a once marked bench, even after dark.
Trying to reignite and relight that spiritual spark....

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Gaze from my balcony I stand in serene reverie. A visualisation of reflective 
streams, a teardrop to stir bubbles
in circles. A panoramic view of my...

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From a comet’s tail, like pepper on a meal
sprinkling down on the land
upon the earth, the contagious death
the cleansing of God’s hand

Genocide made, from a...

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*The title was just in my head so I had to make something with it... I'm not sure how good it is, so feel free...

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It was a cold winter's day, the wind howled
Sky missing hiding above, the dark clouds
that were pelting rain had revenge on mind
the cold, wet city...

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Thank you, Lemmy, I am just listening now
Listening now to your fantastic album
“Expanded”, it’s amazing. It’s give me blood and life
Life and Blood in my...

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