Short Blackens Poems

If you turn off the lights in your mind
your inner sky blackens,
which breaks interaction between
your inner and outer world
then the worst of the worst happens...

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Crack your fingers if you will, destroy bone
Sound disturbingly travels
From knuckle to eardrum

Just like fire that melts iron, smoldering
Burns the skin, blackens the soul
Scar permanently shown

Russell Sivey...

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Depression hurts a lot,
It leaves a scar on your soul.
It makes you think you're someone you're not.
It blackens your heart until it looks like coal.

Depression kills and depression breaks you apart.
It will twist you and make you cry.
It leaves you with a broken heart.
It makes you want to give up and die....

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A Choice of Colors
For Mom 2024

It is a conspiracy of years
that pulls down the leaves
dries the creek beds
blackens a leg.
It must be cheerfully
countenanced
but the fear and rage
overwhelms.

Only when an ending
is better than 
the next minute or two
does the last faltering step
become the bravest one
we will take.
...

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Morning comes shuns the light:
 The solar sun shines ever bright;
Those the clouds wash away;
Brightness turns yellow hues to gray;
~
Evening comes tonight;
Moon shines smiles bright;
Grinning through the darkness:
Blackens embraces Saturn kiss;


8/16/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2021...

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In the midnite of earth's noon,

Sun's shadow blackens the moon.

Silver shades of pale desire

Are consumed within its fire.

Adrift in darkness of death,

The burnt moon struggles for breath.

Unremembering the plight
 
Desire brought, it slays the night.

This envious moon of sky

Sighs with dispassionate eye:

The sun too will one day die....

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May, for all her beauty, sickens me
flowers and sunshine-
make the world blind
to the utter misery!

Spring, new life- supposedly
yet I gaze around
this friendless town
too many bad memories!

Anguish, pain- it blackens me
my soul is hollow
the rest will follow
as May drags on relentlessly...

She carries the misery-
will I ever find-
solace? peace of mind?
not until May fades away!
...

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Oh mighty mistral winds
Fill my sails and take me home 
This voyage never ends 
Over countless seas I roam

On this ship I'm but a slave
Still I struggle and I try
I fight each giant wave
As it blackens out the sky 

The unrelenting sea
Pitches wildly to and fro 
It won't get the best of me
No matter where I go 

If these mistral winds prevail
Then no peril can befall
Till it carries ship and sail
To my final port of call...

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Chased mercilessly 
over well- worn tar 
palpable loss pushes 
a sable brush 
dunked in dread
a furious deluge
of fear 
 oozes out
blackens every inch
 of familiar landscape
what if’s 
eat through 
 the still static blue horizon
making a meal 
of unborn dreams 
slaked only by
hastily grabbed 
history 
coupled with 
ragged spirits 
 that desperately 
haul hope north 
safe haven 
on strange soil 
still dark hours
 away...

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Green is the colour of nature,
Peace,
Harmony,
Health.

But what happens when the green is clouded?
When a heavy cloak of darkness blackens the soil around the root?
When red gems seep out of the tree trunks?
When the flowers start to bend with the weight of salty pearls? 

People love going to forest,
Dancing with trees
And singing with me,
But,

When the trees start wilting,
And the rain starts dripping,
Nobody thinks about rebuilding,
The green inside me....

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