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Dark Iambic Pentameter Poems

These Dark Iambic Pentameter poems are examples of Iambic Pentameter poems about Dark. These are the best examples of Iambic Pentameter Dark poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Break of Dawn
Send forth your waking sun to sway this slumber

I beg a breeze to bargain in my favor

My chains of memories shall break with morning

Please pull...

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Categories: confusion, dark, dream, memory,



Premium Member Like Golden Leaves
"Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. 
They take their time and wander on this 
their only chance to soar.”
      ...

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Categories: autumn, life, metaphor,

Premium Member Regarding Merit
Regarding merit: absent, missing, void
Of all redeeming qualities, save one,
The apple of His eye, His "very good.”
Was He, in pleasant garden, much annoyed
When they His...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creation,

Premium Member Now Jericho, Besieged By Israel
Now Jericho, besieged by Israel,
Had shut its doors, and none went in or out.
The LORD told Joshua, “If you’ll believe,
We’re going to bring these walls...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bible,

Premium Member Sending Love To My Papa
Sending Love to My Papa

Underneath his multiple dark layers,
He was desperately seeking the light.
Wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing his betrayers, 
Kinsman who disregarded his cruel...

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Categories: abuse, emotions, father, feelings,



Premium Member Oceans
I often think about Earth's oceans- deep
and taking up three-quarters of its size.
Our continents are islands in the sweep
of water worlds- alive beneath our skies.

Great...

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Categories: mystery, ocean, surreal, world,

Premium Member Bard's-Eye View
ado the realms that I have plunged with phrase
          they have no shape - no bound'ries...

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Categories: analogy, metaphor, poetry, wisdom,

My Old Friend
I sit, gazing at my bountiful fields;
Cattle graze and meander upon the grass;
Flapping, a shadowy figure soars near;
He perches on the railing of my porch,
still...

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© Zach Zu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, analogy, anxiety, depression,

United States With Golden Gates
United States With Golden Gates

When we saw the United States,
Were greeted by golden gates;
Best place where we want to be;
God does abide in our society.

Truth...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, analogy,

Stopping By the Woods On a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost
Whose woods these are, I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up...

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Categories: animal, weather,

Premium Member The Doctor Said
There's nothing we can do, the doctor said!
     It was December, nineteen-seventy.
At once, those words exploded in my head
  ...

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Categories: memory, sad,

In the Still of Night Or Fright
He came to her in the still of the night
she wondered and thought if she looked a fright

One look in his eyes no word was...

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Categories: courage, dark, memory, mystery,

Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar Translation
Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

after William Dunbar

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest...

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Categories: iambic pentameter, character, desire, devotion, flower,

Entro Stragegic
THE WITCH BIRD IS A MIGRITE OF
BOTH THE HUMMINGBIRD AND PIGEON
THEY ARE BRIGHT YELLOW AND WITH 
BLUE BECKS ARE HARD TO FOLLOW
AND THEY FLY REAL...

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Categories: culture, fashion, music, science

Indomitable Penitentameter
Take away lusts dark sleep of shallow dust.
Me, to emerge-crowned, both righteous and just.
Take the poison from my hollow likeness.
Away, this venom that bleeds to...

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Categories: deep,


Book: Shattered Sighs