Short Dark Life Poems
Short Dark Life Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Dark Life by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Dark Life by length and keyword.
Eternal now
Light fades
To darkness
Collapsing structures
Shifting dimensions
Poltergeists have
Tantrums in
The Ether
Categories:
dark life, dark, life,
Form:
Prose
Some days it just doesn't go
Often when it rains or snows...
Storm clouds gather in the skies of my brain
Releasing rivers of self-pity and pain
Categories:
dark life, dark, life, pain, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
Death is dark,Life is light ,and light shines brighter than the night-Live
PS: For Silent One's Contest: Death,Life Or Both One Liner.
Categories:
dark life, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Trustworthiness
Has Both Hands In Your Pockets To
"Help You Out A Little Bit,"
How's That Feel For You There,
Alright? Goood.
-Gray Squirrel
05-20-2025
Categories:
dark life, dark, life,
Form:
Free verse
The thrill and the high
Need to be in with the crowd
Knowledge, denial
Drugs and life out of control
To soon their potential…lost
2/4/16
Categories:
dark life, dark, life, drug,
Form:
Tanka
Hill moon eclipsed in the rain-filled blue clouds
Dark and light play in the boughs
Old owl plays the sitar
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07/04/2017
Categories:
dark life, dark, life, light,
Form:
Kimo
Man sits in shadows
Darkness consumes all of him…
Blackness of the crow
Russell Sivey
Contest: 1 senryu any subject
Sponsor: Black Eyed Susan
5/24/2013
Categories:
dark life, bird, dark, life,
Form:
Senryu
Enveloped in black
Darkness of a living death
The black shroud tightens
Heightened frenzy of thrashing
Pinned in the arms of Black Knight
For Andrea's Color Tanka Contest
May 14, 2013
Categories:
dark life, dark, life,
Form:
Tanka
a black canvas
punctuated
with spots of gray
a circle
ending
where it began
a scream
in the head
that blinds
a parenthesis
expanding
into infinite erasure
Categories:
dark life, dark, life,
Form:
Free verse
How is it that greed
corrodes thus the heart
that so many are willing
to compromise thoughts of afterlife
so easily discarding aspirations
for eternal peace ?
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Categories:
dark life, corruption, dark, life, people, power,
Form:
Free verse
The Old Man has never
walked on the Moon
but he has crapped his pants
and he has puked on his wife's shoes
but after drinking a bottle of whiskey
The Old Man killed it when he played the blues.
Categories:
dark life, dark, life,
Form:
Free verse
Darkness
A locus for expression of tears
Muffled thoughts grow vociferous
Suppressed emotions arise uprighteous
Societal demands and self interests lock horns
only to be put to rest before dawn
Categories:
dark life, dark, life,
Form:
Free verse
Sky wallows near black
The darkness does shine nearby
Black envelopes throughout it
Couple walks within
On snowy surface they stroll
Near dusk the darkness folds in
Russell Sivey
Categories:
dark life, dark, life, snow,
Form:
Sedoka
visions of himself
a life of broken fragments
palette toned sepia.
a sense of menace
depresses anticlimax
master of his moods.
he realizes
not all quests are quixotic
some are doomed to fail.
Categories:
dark life, dark, life,
Form:
Senryu
An expressive place
A dark forest late at night
Just a torch to see
The path badly overgrown
Looks hopeless yet is calming
Entrant into Black Eyed Susan's "Tanka" contest
12/8/2012
Categories:
dark life, dark, life, peace, places,
Form:
Tanka
It seems
we can’t find
what you’re looking for.
Perhaps searching can help.
perhaps nothing can be found
perhaps nothing can help
perhaps the answer is simply
No
Categories:
dark life, dark, life, technology,
Form:
Free verse
wispy green tendrils
flicker & frolic
in sunny
capricious breezes
a brief glimpse of peace
a brief glimpse of harmony
a brief glimpse of life...
beyond
a
suffocating
cavernous
c
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Categories:
dark life, dark, life, nature, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Can we just not talk ?
Everything that will come up
you will only accuse and not understand.
All I got under my feet are unfriendly rock.
And there is no one to light the dark life
that settled on my land.
(18.07.2025)
Categories:
dark life, dark, life,
Form:
Free verse
Shadow Love
Just follow, follow a lost life
Grey walk, dark, shadow life
Where? Where? Where is life?
There is no life. Remaining dark
A heart loved. Just for you
Touch it. Opens dark love
I love you
Dark life
Categories:
dark life, fate, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
dark places find me
as a result of myself
dark places bind me
i give them all the wealth
dark places grind me
the unpredictability stirs my stealth
dark places remind me
modern stressful times are really effecting my health
Categories:
dark life, dark, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dark And The Light
I am a poet nether dark or light,
but then there are days, that is what I write.
So when in the sun and everything’s bright,
that’s what I sing in the dark of the night.
By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison
Categories:
dark life, art, dark, life, light, poets,
Form:
Quatrain
Distilled sun invades
to project on whitewashed screen their
chintzy-hotel love,
melding the serenading shades.
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Date: 13 / 01 / 2017
Categories:
dark life, dark, life, light, love, lust, marriage, sunset,
Form:
Verse
wandering labyrinths of light
leading to dead-end darkness
feeling the cold walls of fright
turning to a hushed silence
finding love gives way to life
transforming through my essence
holding her close in my night
filling it with her presence
Categories:
dark life, dark, life, light, love,
Form:
Free verse
How many things you should give up
So they will see?
How many nights to cry, so
They will notice you?
Living with the indifference of others,
Forgetting the necessity of warmth,
Then what is this life for?
We do create by ourselves
The reality that hurts.
Categories:
dark life, dark, life, pain, people, philosophy, sad, stress,
Form:
Verse
saloons are just another form of dealing with depression
I hate drinking away nights
saying yes to bartenders
saying no to reality
take a dip in the cold waters
harsh and real
life is for losers I thought
but maybe I should really try living sometime
Categories:
dark life, absence, abuse, angst, dark, life, slam,
Form:
Free verse