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Dark Light Poems

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


Eclipsed by Your Light
All night I sit beneath the weight
Of words I cannot speak or state—
This hunger carving out the space
Between my ribs, my heart's embrace.

You are not...

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Categories: light, cute love,



Premium Member Just Life
Just Life

Just life, everywhere, in all parts of the way.
On all the paths of the road. Dry world, vision.
The beauty of life is just an...

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Categories: light, fantasy, fate, future, life,

Torrid Affair
If, as the saying goes,
'There's no smoke without fire,'
is it smarter to ignite a spark
(illumination causation)
than bedamn the dark,
and thereby induce a funeral pyre,
or, better...

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Categories: light, earth, fire, fun, philosophy,

Premium Member Chiaroscuro
It was a ghostly orb
obscured by smog—
glowing faintly yellow
at the center and fading
to amber, 
then ochre, 
raw sienna, 
and finally umber—
as if the light itself
were...

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Categories: childhood, dark, light, memory,

Random Thoughts 3: Night
The solitude of nightfall
Is more bearable 
Than companionship in the light...

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Categories: dark, light,



Premium Member Emily Dickinsons Burial


It may seem a cruel tragedy
that Amherst’s greatest poet Emily 
Dickinson never got to marry
though she burned ardently to be.
And yet in Death (if you’ll...

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Categories: light, dark, humor,

the light or the dark is the question
based on the song  Bible Black by Heaven and Hell for Ronnie James Dio Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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In this dark. misty...

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© Markus Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: light, conflict, confusion, music, song,

Before The Gates Of Alahsar - Version 2 - 32
The Dark men fought on past their mother,
many had seen the mighty one fall
they fought on with bitter hate,
as now, once more, did the mother...

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Categories: light, dark, death, dream, evil,

Before The Gates Of Alahsar - Version - 2 -31
Fierce goblins rode these wolves,
their curved scimitars, raining death,
their fierce visage could freeze the heart,
they moved with the giant spiders,
death comes in so many ways.
The...

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Categories: light, dark, death, dream, evil,

Two Kingdoms
Two kingdoms clashing, light and dark,
They cannot dwell in the same heart.
Give up all that pulls us away,
For Word comes first; it lights the way.

A...

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Categories: light, encouraging, endurance,

The Waking World
For Ink Empress's Etheree of your Heart Poetry Contest

4 June 2025

Light
grows slow
in hues bloom,
eastward, sky springs
a soft, gentle yawn,
colors bleed, gold and rose,
the world stretches,...

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Categories: day, light, morning, sun,

Premium Member Real Girls
purple waters and a palm; drops
coconuts on the sailors. mutts -
the enlisted; maritime props
in greedy hands - bum hat of klutz.

weave of straw skirt -...

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Categories: light, humor,

Premium Member It's Free

The earth is beautiful, a sign
of love much greater – God has sketched
His grace and love, come rain or shine
He’s always there, His hand outstretched

The...

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Categories: light, appreciation, blessing, christian, hope,

Premium Member Creatives musing: no eyes
when I close my eyes
    everything goes unseen 
      life is honest 
    and...

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Categories: light, art, dark, dream, inspiration,

Premium Member where no light penetrates
     where no light penetrates 
       the musty chamber of an existence
   ...

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Categories: light, dark, fantasy,


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