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Noir Poems - Poems about Noir

Nocturne of Wounds
A pallid night, a void's umbral reign, Emptiness, a phantom, claimed the lane. A dirge of noir, a melancholic strain, Echoes, sepulchral, whispered in the rain. The phantasmal memory, a haunting pain, The keloid scars, where shadows still remain. A thunderous hush, a silence stark and deep, The vise of anguish, where dark tendrils creep. A preternatural dread, secrets to keep, The cerulean sky,...

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Categories: noir, anxiety, dark, forgiveness, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member thin fractures
Thoughts can be thin fractures in the order of things. Sometimes my dorm room seems a sterile sarcophagus, like an accusation, or an interrogation about my romantic choices, with nothing warm or inviting there. Sometimes I’ve just got to get out. Leong and I decided to go to ‘Toads Place’—a bar right across the street from campus. Still,...

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Categories: noir, drink, forgiveness, integrity, morning,
Form: Free verse



dangerous eyes poetrix
piercing gaze inviting mouth gestural noir scene...

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Categories: noir, 3rd grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts In Noir
On misted streets of fog and pain With lamp post lighted thoughts of rain The city, bleak in heart’s demise Is cold, as tears now taunt my eyes To walk in disappointment’s...

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Categories: noir, anxiety, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Film Noir
It's been a while; I took a beer from the bar and sat in a booth which obscured the view, the world and myself. I wanted to be a young man needing a young woman, but the head of the pint soaked my mind into a quickly foaming reality that I had to watch go flat. I kind of slouched in the seat, a...

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Categories: noir, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Noir Love and Words
The dame's confession shook me to my core Her life, just like a script, she did implore With more emotion than a dame should show She spoke of feelings that only she would know She said her words were just a mere facade That true emotion could not be a charade It spoke to her in ways no one could tell Stronger...

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Categories: noir, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cinema Noir Look
With a rose between teeth red mouth calling me your look reminds me of cinema noir...

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Categories: noir, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Arson Noir
An affectatious arsonist announced, “Big buildings’ burning brilliance brightens best!” casually cites conflagration counts, darkly deals destruction, designer-dressed. Extinguishing each edifice enflamed, first-rate forensic findings frequent failed. Grievous, grim goings, ‘geniously gamed; Hurried happenings, hastily high-tailed. Incendiary incidents ignite jewel-filled junkets, jazzed jalopy jaunts. Kindling’s kittling kiss: knave’s known kryptonite, Lapping, leaping licks, luscious, lit lavants. Madness! Marauding mercilessly more, Nefarious, nursing next novel noir. ————— kittle - birth,...

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Categories: noir, fire,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Noir Night
The night was rainy, hot and humid. It was the kind of night that populates steamy, black and white, noir movies where someone is murdered. The stars seemed reduced to sloshing behind moldy gray clouds, as damp and listless as seaweed in the surf. “Let’s go see a movie,” Sophy suggested, as she brought up the...

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Categories: noir, night, summer, teen, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Memory Noir
Cigarette smoke and cheap perfume linger in a dance of remembrance An unmarried aunt who clerked in a store her rummage sale pearls yellow with age wrapped around my memories and my fascinations I was eleven years old when she died and I heard my parents say: “Floss was never really happy” But to me, she always smiled and took a nickel...

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Categories: noir, memory,
Form: Free verse
Film Noir
I am behind the large white wheel of an Oldsmobile. I am a page ripped from a Raymond Chandler novel. Clipped words curl close to my lips as hot as ash. Dreamy eyes are cold tonight, there will be death at the side of a desert back-road. Revolvers will be shaken until blood spills from a mouth. I park carefully until the...

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Categories: noir, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Noir Intrusions
It’s the cat on the doorstep you didn’t expect. A burnt-out lightbulb darkening the foyer. It’s the thought of something creepy lurking under the porch, A feeling you might need a clever lawyer. It’s the odd conjunction of uncanny events, With noir intrusions scratching in the closet. It’s a drip from the faucet you just had repaired. Make sure your will is...

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Categories: noir, allegory, fantasy, memory,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Donuts
I always get up early. Early, early, early and it’s Saturday morning. So I scooted over to “Donut Crazy” and got myself 12 sugar donuts (and a selection of treats for my suitemates - I’m NOT suicidal.) At 8am, I’m in the suite common area, on the couch, binging “Ladybug and Cat Noir” on my iPad...

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Categories: noir, fun, teen,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fantome Du Noir Chevalier
“fantôme du noir chevalier” whither doth thee cometh from? Strange voice that I see Coldness of ire burns the skin beneath sheets paper white guise black ink heart bleeding within - stranger the walls do speak here in the mirror swimming See the lost reflections of souls the misguided forlorn disenchanted do scry their petulant perplexity ghosts for the haunting picked like ripe plumbs legions illuminating dead...

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Categories: noir, dark, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Hope Noir
Dark thoughts, running around my head Tortured soul, wishing it was dead Not knowing how she truly feels Wounds she caused, will they heal? Death of me, would be an easy option Noose, or blade? Or drugs of some concoction? No! I can’t, my faith won’t let me! Hope still lives, together, myself and she? Patience, a virtue, I wish to know! So this...

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Categories: noir, heartbreak,
Form: I do not know?

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