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Dark Word Play Poems

These Dark Word Play poems are examples of Word Play poems about Dark. These are the best examples of Word Play Dark poems written by international poets.


Premium Member The Desert
a rattler flicking its 
split tongue...gathering
chemical messengers~ Prairie Dog
without a prayer

vulture, periscope downward
navigates a granulate sea, 
follows the wavering flow of tracks~
just over a grilling...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: word play, dark, death, fate, imagery,



Premium Member Raging Rubble
infernal illusions 
  ignite 
invasive insanity
  invite
ignoble insects
  incinerate
raging RuBbLe
X>X>X>X>
rueful ruins     
 reverberate
  resonate
   radiate...

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Categories: word play, dark, surreal, war, word

Premium Member Road to Relapse
worry, worry                 curse, worse     ...

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Categories: word play, anxiety, dark, society, word

Premium Member COLOURISTA
CLOURISTA
mood
 & personality
an
 intuitive
complex
of influence

decor
  perceived
in
 a spectrum
of
primary
   pigments
tone
& saturation

red orange
yellow green blue
purple sides
of shortest
hue
'til blackness
in white
fades
into
a unity
of grey
with
  intriguing
sublety
&
intensity
in
 the
lasered
  eye
emit
  random
chaotic
photons
 both coherent
&
radiates
 sensations
in contrasts
&
complements
vibrate
in
the spatial
mind
light/dark
instinctive
& vivid

a
visual
  spice
enlivens
&evokes
awareness
 of
   apparel
impressions
piquing
  unadulterated
clarity
&
  appeal...

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Categories: art, word play,

Premium Member Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet loved her curds and whey,  
give me a box of cereal with cold milk and I will be on my way....

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Categories: word play, children, fun, nursery rhyme,



Premium Member a decent obsession
underneath 
his trenchcoat
he was 
in possession 
of a bent quill
he used it to tickle
words out of his 
avaries of birds
moon-eyed and 
sucker-punched
they adored the 
dripping...

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Categories: word play, dark, humor, imagery, muse,

Premium Member ou l'Optimisme
The name 
mistakenly saintly, 
the other one 
a rite-of-life, 
a gauche passage 
for some, for most
the contract costly,
imprints its meaning 
post firey baptismal dive
to rise...

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Categories: muse, mystery, word play,

WHEN I GROW UP
When I grow up
I will love to know why 
People call a Snake specie Rattlesnake,
When all snakes actually Rattle

When I grow up 
I will love...

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Categories: word play, allusion, culture, humorous, life,

Shatter
Shatter me
 The aching, hollow pain that carves out the very essence of my heart burns through my veins, filling this fleshy vessel of mine
...

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Categories: word play, angst, emotions, lonely, sad

Premium Member TABB the EIGTH line FORM
this is a form based on John Banister Tabb,(the Virginia born )poet's The Evolution
I have labelled this imagist form 'a tabb' in his honour.

EVOLUTION
by: John...

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Categories: imagery, poetry, word play,

Premium Member Beings of the Grind
beings of the grind
grind through
catastrophic time
[[[!*&$%!!!!!!!!!!!%$&*!]]]

beings of the grind
groan in
cacophonous slime
#@!////////???????\\\\\\\\!@#

beings of the grind
grovel in
contorted grime
|?$#!-!#$?|

beings of the grind
gallop into
convoluted crime
|?$#!-!#$?|

&
kick
contentious cans
down the road
of raging
rabbit...

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Categories: word play, dark, society, surreal, word

Premium Member fatuous bugs
fate
crushes us
like
fatuous bugs
in
fatal rugs
...

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Categories: word play, dark, fate, humorous, life,

If The World Just Burned
If the world burned  
I wouldn't be too sad 
Afraid of the abyss 
But definitely just fine 
I have nothing  to cling on...

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Categories: word play, anxiety, dark, emo, humanity,

Premium Member More Is More
solemnly breathless in behemoth miasma
effect starts playing havoc with my asthma 
dropped in a world of despair, me as well
carrying dark in darkness - more...

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Categories: word play, crazy, dark, deep, depression,

Premium Member Dead End Street
Once, when I was young – another writer,
A poet and poetry lover, someone undiscovered…
She (it could have been he since I only knew 
Pen names...

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Categories: word play, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,


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