Shadow Poems - Poems about Shadow

In halls where silence speaks louder than words, I stand, a beacon amidst the unseen. Their gazes, sharp as unspoken swords, Pierce through the facade, where I've always been. Once, my voice resonated with pride, Now, it's drowned by murmurs and disdain. Yet, I endure, with dignity as my guide, In a place where respect is hard to attain. But within me, a...

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I loved him I loved him with my whole soul I loved him I loved him until he became my blackhole He took and he took He took the color from my cheek He took the light from my eye He took my life until I became weak But I knew he was good So I gave and I gave I thought 'it's okay, maybe...

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What we are, we do not know, as we carry within us a shade of dark brown, like a hidden shadow, Wandering through nightmares woven from the dark threads of endless nights, We lose ourselves among the floating ducks on a vast lake, a mirror of the boundless sky, From where no departure will ever be possible, in...

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What if dawn hesitates at my window, afraid to wake the refugee's dreams? I teach my shadow to walk ahead— it knows the Damascus streets I've never seen. My homeland lives in my mother's teacup, its borders drawn in cardamom and grief. The map I carry rewrites itself each night, erasing roads that lead me home. We built our house from borrowed years. Each...

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Within the marble halls where shadows dance, A silent wisdom shapes each chance. "Outshine not the master," old voices warn— A subtle art, where gifts are worn. On gilded thrones, egos softly gleam, Their fragile worth a waking dream. A spark too bright in youthful eyes Can summon storms from clouded skies. Not dullness asked, nor brilliance veiled, But grace in shining, gently scaled. Let...

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Look closely at shadows following you shading footfalls with a soft Lapis blue Bits of yesterday mixed with tomorrow Shadows reflecting days we could borrow They belie the memories that we find in their whispers of all those left behind moments becoming shadows of our days twisting, turning as our hair fills with greys Shadows of moments that we now regret. Promises that...

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Skills were suppressed while others took flight a way of life put to rest another came to bear Scratched in moonlight held on for a wild ride spread across reality like ash in shifting wind Generational shifts pathways dimly lit leading toward a white hot light From solitude to fortitude no picnic but a buffet of trials and triumphs I’ve stood on stages unrefined buffed and polished by time until life and...

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Shadow thieves Pondering on the darkened times Peeling the strips of the phase Tugging on the masks of yesterday's face as impunity crows unravelling the thickened years ...

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I asked my shadow to swim on the surface. I didn’t want it to sink in fear, from the ripples pulling it down, fading into gray below. I asked the silence to hold a chord until it could resonate. I wanted echoes to break through the empty spaces where sound had once lived. I asked the silence to...

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I met my shadow, it was right behind me. It stalked me, in sharp-edged silhouette It bore my shape, but evoked a darker hue, Mirroring truths I’d buried and denied. In rooms beneath our conscious rooms, The shadows linger, nap in silence and uninvited. They arise, get glued to our backs, as trailing capes Of truths hidden behind eyes looking forward. Our shadow...

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When grief became a shadow It felt as if nothing else mattered Like a sudden darkness Raining down upon us Like sucking the light from our eyes Like a wound opened multiple times It follows you like a stalker Creepily walking behind you Keeping an eye on your every moment And when you think you outsmarted it When you take a deep breath...

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I crawled through years where night fell fast, where dawn was a rumor, faint and far. Each day was a climb up a crumbling wall, every step swallowed in shadows, and the weight of the world bore down, pressed hard— its whispers sharp, relentless. Hope would come, a flicker, then fade, a candle swallowed by each unkind wind. I’d chase it like breath,...

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Light arrives from its flight wheeling behind its suitcase of shadows, exposures, echoes and consequences. It spills its hoard across the floor, and gathers remnant dark remains from dim corners. It daubs and stitches black silhouette capes and patches behind all it passes. These shadowy figures are light's wind vanes tracing where its being seen. Light reveals the cracks, dents, dust and...

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Lurking In the shadow Of the corner Of the room In the dim In the gloom Lurking Waiting In the shadow Of the corner Of the room In the dim In the gloom Waiting Watching In the shadow Of the corner Of the room In the dim In the gloom Watching Me. ...

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Secrets cling to the shadows, the light Softly glowing, flowing against a soft night While the melancholy dreams breathe, stirred By the distant thunder, the storm’s heard Revealing the silence, the story so inviting Soundless images of hope I keep writing! ...

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