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Dark Imagery Poems

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

The Returning

The Return 

The quietness spreads thickly,
the atmosphere even thicker.
Nature has lost its voice
as the house glowers down at him
caped in silent stillness;
a muscle waiting to...

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Categories: imagery, father son, fear, home,

MORNING LIGHT

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[Verse 1]
You drifted in like hush of dawn,
No grand parade, just color drawn,
Across the quiet of my sky,
Where shadows used to settle high.

[Pre-Chorus]
I didn’t see...

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Categories: imagery, inspirational love, light,

reaping

alabaster clouds
morph into ashen grey smoke
acid rain plummets 
a grieving heart breaks in two 
drowning within its own flood

angel of deaths scythe
shows not an ounce...

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Categories: dark, heartbreak, imagery, poetry,

Alice Through The Wormhole

Blinding rays of moonlight pierce through windblown curtains, whilst droplets of sweat bead on a heavy forehead. Sleep becomes more elusive with every tick of...

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Categories: beauty, imagery, imagination, poetry,

Self-imprisoned

In this abyss, where senses fade,
A labyrinth of fears, eyes stick to spade
A choice self-made, a soul betrayed,
In pale moonlight, a tearful price is paid...

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Categories: anxiety, dark, gothic, imagery,

Beneath the Iron Veil

Echoes of the holy grace, for this place,
Endless woe of devolution,
Forever entice, your grace,
The moon is your solution. 

Confined in this space, of endless grace,
Under...

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Categories: dark, gothic, imagery, metaphor,

The Lighthouse Comfort Me

the
lighthouse
beamed
it's
powerful light
across
the 
dark wine sea
that
captured me
ask
the
ships
that
sail across
the
cliffs of wales
return
to thee
while
the
lighthouse
comfort me...

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Categories: image, imagery, imagination, inspiration,

HOT MILK DRIPPING

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warm sun sweet liquid
dark moist hole bristles soft sand 
wonder exquisite 
   ...

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Categories: imagery, allegory, birth, change, character,

Carnival Nights

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...

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Categories: dark, death, gothic, imagery,

Pink Butterflies

Breath
Nuance
Light 
Dark
Dappled sunlight casting shadows

I see you before me 
Riding bareback 
An elegant mare
Swishing her tail through tall dry grasses
Chocolate fur 
Gliding us to new...

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Categories: imagery, appreciation, beauty, dream, fantasy,

ruined

I can feel it all burning down,
the walls I painted in soft colors,
the corners I swept clean for company—
they crackle in silence.

Instead of exploring other...

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Categories: imagery, absence, dark, depression, environment,

Mother Earth

fertile ground was found
     the soil a rich deep dark brown
          the...

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Categories: creation, dark, imagery, nature,

Danger in the Jungle

the jungle is dark
     the panther colored in black
          anxious to attack
...

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Categories: imagery, africa, animal, anxiety, dark,

Embers

Alas, my heart!
Breathe. Behave. 
A saviour awaits your sinking gaze
Too much of your eyes would set it all ablaze.
Bring with you a lamp so bright
Burn...

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Categories: gothic, imagery, love, romance,

Tremor

Before thought–the heart: a struck bell's hum,
in the chest's dark chapel. No word. Only thrum
that echoes the void where meaningwill climb. 

Is this the soul's...

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Categories: imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,