Dark Tristich Poems

Shadows of night close around me
Like a velvety cloak of darkness,
But I recall that joy comes in the morning.

written January 19, 2022...

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I scan each age and pause with idle care-
reflecting on a single year or two
in my anthology of life: some fair-

most good- few, dark with...

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A blind man looks through
tinted glasses shades
darkness lights up his face



3/2/20 2020©

For STRAND CHOICE D, any form, any theme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand |...

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amidst these sullen skies
tiny drops stream down
pain lashes out

atop the muddied ground
she sinks within
unable to lift herself

 she tumbles down
like autumn's leaves
memories piling up

buried in...

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A strange, eerie, black feeling of despair,
I am lost, alone, no one seems to care
except the Moon who appears and prepares.

He throws me a long...

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Defenseless and drained of power
The reason is simple, you are a victim
an emotionless being without a heart

Hell is the snake in the room no one...

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Unlike the days of old when cities were built with walls. Unlike the streets        of my rearing, the...

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Tho’ the soft voice has an aristocratic tone,
the haughty attitude ain’t no street gutter different:
Being rude ... dropping shade

Dark keystroke mood, 
shallow indigo indifference shown
Another...

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Life always offer choices — 
Some easy,
some hard

Alternate current inner voices:
Pulse charge emotional,
or neural beta rational

Positive or negative energy flow
Binary decision 
is either yes or...

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Knotted in the torsion of a tempest’s mood -
the barrage drains the sun and overwhelms the dusk
ire’s flash stabs the night.


Susan Ashley
April 6, 2019


~ Second...

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A cosmic gulf of enormity besets thee,
as intellectual relevancy re-entry
splash down in a vast sea of ignorance

The empirical wherewithal to muse observe, 
with keen, hydrogen-based...

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For twenty long days, 
our ship sailed the waves.
I'm trying to get home to you. 

There's no ending in sight, 
we can't see the light....

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A nice, curious white woman
asked Georgie me why
me no happy ta-day

I wore me nine-year-old frown
monkey-bar yea high
Lil’ black children grow up dat way

Me answer ta...

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Feeling the calamity coming,
edgy thoughts ... 
enter the bunker

Following in Hitler’s footsteps,
going down underground ... 
into the safe panic place

The isolated catacomb haven,
dark insulated protection...

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One Proud Yellow Dandelion

Lantanas and pears are lushly in bloom,
Baby chartreuse leaves brighten winter’s late gloom
And one proud yellow dandelion.

We wait for the redbuds –...

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