Dark Imagery Poems

Tarnished, cracked, and parched without your love.  
Oh, why hast thou forsaken my devotion?  
Your impulsivity led to my demise, accumulating dust among...

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I sit here on this wide, stone porch,
the farms stretch for many miles,
even on sunny days you can
sit here and drift for a while…
but this...

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mountains 
       made of    w
           ...

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         oh, the world out there....           ...

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Staring into the stratospheric abyss 
Cumulus clouds swiftly drift along.  
As I stand at a dusty precipice,  
The white-hot heat of the sun...

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An unearthly fog thickens nocturnal’s peaceful aura.  
Scents of lamenting petrichor mix with slick, decomposing leaves.  
A disharmonious death knell calls to me,...

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I have met you in my mind,
You have been a reflection of my desire.
I have worshipped you in my favourite mirror,
You have been a quiet...

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Earthquakes of bedlam quell
As tectonic plates of emotional instability cease shifting.  
The tears of a discarded clown, suspended in animation—  
Numbness overtakes. ...

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A  soul's etched cartography
compasses spins a needle frantic 
above a parchment of skin.

A map…

Each line a river I've drowned in,
blood I waded and divide...

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The map unrolls, a skin of dust
where landmarks shift like whispers lost to a gust.

I trace a fracture, jagged, unfamiliar...
place where my phantom feet wandered,...

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In the hollows of the night
I lie and face the stars, the things behind the veil
In dreams, I turn from things afar; I feel my...

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It speaks of loss and vermilion
It speaks of everything and eternity 
Shadows reek of dead things n burnt dreams
Shadows hide the faces of the world...

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As sunlight paints all in gold
A cresting wave 
Along a distant bay
Gulls cry high into a clear sky

Its tyrannical son burns all away.
Summer has come
What...

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In the vast expanse of life's dark space,
Be patient, tough, like stars that grace
The endless night with steady light—
Guiding you through the hardest fight.

This pain,...

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Like an albatross enfolded around my silencing throat,  
squeezing ever tighter,  
asphyxiating on sins not of my own.  
A scarlet letter has...

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