Short Dark Metaphor Poems

opened the window
 even tough total darkness,
   wrote white poetry ......

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Thunder, like anger, crashing in the skies above
The lightening seemingly frightening
But is in fact- lighting the way....

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In this world
   so obscured
   of brutality,
   someone will 
   efface this darkness,
    pass a message
    of white purity and draw
    a paradise... !...

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Whilst life tales do rehash passed remarks 
chilly winds do come with aching darkness 
that curtails of forlorn 
moments of what's fitting.
Can a taste of the wind 's breath 
bend lifetime like a blade of grass?


5/27/2020...

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My hopes lay dying,
     caught in webs the night had spun;
          will they hide the morning ray?
I calmed my crying,
     dwelled on dawn's bright golden sun;
          born again- the hope of day.


January 8, 2016

Contest: Bite-Size Poem No. 12
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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Here she is 
Her smile as if painted on
Shining, eye catching
Her shell cracking
Breaking, snapping
Slowly revealing the true little clown
Oh, my silly little fool
No amount of pain or porcelain could hide something as hideous as you
Oh, now don’t weep
Don’t fret
After all, the show isn’t over yet....

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Cooler air stream rides
On back of thundering storm
Wicked this way comes

Pounding rain and hail
Weather clash of the titans
Lightning cleaves the sky

Thunder quakes the land
Animals flee fast in flight
Humans seek cover

Dark siege slowly ends
Battle clouds exhaust their rage
Scattered by the sun...

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SCAVENGERS


The night sun buries his face to earth,
Slowly suspending his daily harvest -
Piles of colour and heaps of brightness 
In oast house and warm barn.


Rays of darkness  
Speed across the twilight 
Sky, steal into small corners of the loft,
Scavengers ransacking the day.
Greens devoured by omnivores;
Nothing left but black....

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there they sit
with their dreams
and fantasies
mouthing great
philosophies
narrating great tales
of imagined achievements,
revealing little nuggets
of despair couched
in a fatalism
of their own making.
Should I reveal myself
jolt them to the reality
of death
put an end to their charade

Or slither away 
in the susurration
of wind and grass
leaving them 
to their random ramblings
in their dotage?...

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The men of clay, mouths dehisce wide
     Voicelessly pass 
Arms at their sides; feet stiffly tight
     Perception dull
No meager light softens their skull
Inside my head their voices scream
     Nightmarish dream
The words conveyed I try to hide
Menacing threats infuse my ears
     Two bare knees 
Oblivion, morass of grey
Lethe embraces. Here I will stay.

***

May 22, 2017
Copyright © Darren White...

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beneath the hazy bough i lay
amongst the prey of opaque grey

impenetrable souls seize like tides
and nebulous love fears what time hides

blurred without a third eye to reason with my heart
my enigmatic mind delights in what craves to depart

beneath the hazy bough I pray
obscurity and disarray
become debris to throw away-
amongst the prey of opaque grey



11.26.19
Opaque Poetry Contest...

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Cat in the tree, searching for a rat

Dog on the ground barking at a bat

Deer in the meadow watching the site

Hunter in the hills aiming his sights

The bear in the cave was woken and awaiting to strike

Hunter pulls the trigger, as the bear goes for the kill

The dog turns to see the headless shooter

And the cat wanders off

The rat in the tree scampers in the other direction

The deer is fast asleep 

While the bear is snacking 

Nobody hears a peep....

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How broken would a sad heart be
to know it haunts your dreams
Looming like a shadow o'er
your new love's fragile growth
Would it cry out in despair to hear
your thoughts and muffled screams
Or calmly pull its dagger out
and swiftly kill you both

How broken would a sad heart be
if trapped inside your head
To linger like a candle's scent
still burning in the dark
Would it douse you in its icy tears
or drown itself instead
Or take its leave to set you free
without a single mark...

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