Poems About Shadows by Top Critiquers
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Poems about shadows by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
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I wish I had known you better.
I wish I could say I tried.
But I – buried under small bodies
and schedules and needs,
with just enough distance between us to be
inconvenient –
And you – for so long obscured from my view,
with my lifelong tormentor between us --
I just thought we’d have more time.
Eclipsed by his tortured shadow
of bluster and opinions and judgement,
she tossed out colourful sparkles
of beauty and care into our family,
touching us all with a thoughtfulness
much deeper than...
I wish I could say I tried.
But I – buried under small bodies
and schedules and needs,
with just enough distance between us to be
inconvenient –
And you – for so long obscured from my view,
with my lifelong tormentor between us --
I just thought we’d have more time.
Eclipsed by his tortured shadow
of bluster and opinions and judgement,
she tossed out colourful sparkles
of beauty and care into our family,
touching us all with a thoughtfulness
much deeper than...
#family
#shadows
#spiritual
#cancer
#NaPoWriMo2024
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10 Comments
Just Visiting
Let’s turn the lights off, dance like lovers,
we have no eyes, but they who watch
showing us how to touch.
Conjuring us with candles and chants, how silly
they sit and look, so serious while we are just
visiting.
Why are we not wanted when this is our life, our feet
touching the surface?
Let us be your voyeurs to the living. Our
time to walk among the flesh, not wanting
to say our goodbyes, and yet some go mad
waiting in between.
we have no eyes, but they who watch
showing us how to touch.
Conjuring us with candles and chants, how silly
they sit and look, so serious while we are just
visiting.
Why are we not wanted when this is our life, our feet
touching the surface?
Let us be your voyeurs to the living. Our
time to walk among the flesh, not wanting
to say our goodbyes, and yet some go mad
waiting in between.
#dark
#emptiness
#shadows #silence
#shadows #silence
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PAINLESS TRANSITION
carved wounds deeply bleeding
on walls of beating heart
then its broken to pieces
indifference is a knife that cuts deeply
silence is such a sincere affirmation
of unloving someone and going forward
leaving behind crumpled papers
full of meaningless poems
insults to creativity
running into the dark tunnel
hiding from other's thoughts
and darts flung by cupid, stupidly
at the other end
seeking sunlight again
the heart is calm
its wounds are healed
nothing matters
anymore
...
on walls of beating heart
then its broken to pieces
indifference is a knife that cuts deeply
silence is such a sincere affirmation
of unloving someone and going forward
leaving behind crumpled papers
full of meaningless poems
insults to creativity
running into the dark tunnel
hiding from other's thoughts
and darts flung by cupid, stupidly
at the other end
seeking sunlight again
the heart is calm
its wounds are healed
nothing matters
anymore
...
#sadness
#grief
#dark
#heartbroken
#shadows
1170 reads
6 Comments
it's all relative
when all laws have been
abolished
one could be arrested and
punished for anything
there will no difference
between the innocent
and the guilty
and the gallows will
sing
abolished
one could be arrested and
punished for anything
there will no difference
between the innocent
and the guilty
and the gallows will
sing
#lies
#shadows
#tragedy #manipulation
#tragedy #manipulation
108 reads
4 Comments
Abstract journey
night train
asphalt sphinx
avenger
fool
tea leaves told me
you were leaving
in the steam of kettle
verdant air
preparing
this old pain(t)
salted scars
world
altered
angst
copyrights © owned by Ri
asphalt sphinx
avenger
fool
tea leaves told me
you were leaving
in the steam of kettle
verdant air
preparing
this old pain(t)
salted scars
world
altered
angst
copyrights © owned by Ri
#dark
#shadows
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2 Comments
Thanatos
The universe is a grandfather clock
At the end of oblivion's hallway;
Steady ticking The Big Bang tock
With a doppler stellar display
Spectroscopically viewable
By an egghead orchestration
Of observation renewable...
Optical instrumentation.
Yet so silent are those rainbow beams
That I instead hear only fears
Of being deaf in all my dreams
When music rules the midnight spheres,
And as that hallway clock runs down...
Quietus gains the last renown!
At the end of oblivion's hallway;
Steady ticking The Big Bang tock
With a doppler stellar display
Spectroscopically viewable
By an egghead orchestration
Of observation renewable...
Optical instrumentation.
Yet so silent are those rainbow beams
That I instead hear only fears
Of being deaf in all my dreams
When music rules the midnight spheres,
And as that hallway clock runs down...
Quietus gains the last renown!
#stars
#shadows
#astronomy
222 reads
4 Comments
In the Shadows
In the Shadows
#shadows
#scary
#ghosts
920 reads
8 Comments
One with the fog and night...
When night fell on the city,
When the light of lanterns spilled over the streets,
When it was pulling away from the house,
A dense fog fell to the ground.
He, slowly moving along the houses,
Sliding along the sidewalks and roads,
He lay down like a carpet on the expanse of night courtyards,
And that night he reminded me of many things.
Slowly stalked by my fears
And eerie shadows cast in the dark,
Was filled with a mystery for me
Alluring, sweet, timid...
I, sitting by the window, tried to
unravel the Foggy...
When the light of lanterns spilled over the streets,
When it was pulling away from the house,
A dense fog fell to the ground.
He, slowly moving along the houses,
Sliding along the sidewalks and roads,
He lay down like a carpet on the expanse of night courtyards,
And that night he reminded me of many things.
Slowly stalked by my fears
And eerie shadows cast in the dark,
Was filled with a mystery for me
Alluring, sweet, timid...
I, sitting by the window, tried to
unravel the Foggy...
#LifeStruggles
#night
#shadows
#vampires
#fear
713 reads
45 Comments
Hospital room
I woke up in the middle of the night and everything was shaking. I ran out of the hospital room. It was the first day in the hospital and i was not used to the environment and as i did run, i took the right side of the hall which lead further to the hospital, not to the exit. So i turned back. While passing again past my room i got reminded of Ana. I said to myself, how did i leave her inside. I stepped at the door of the hospital room and instead of Ana, i saw no one inside. I got reminded that i was in the hospital and not at my house so i just run to the left, heading to the exit. The...
#shadows
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2 Comments
The Other Yous
inside the dark noise
I hear the alters
the other yous that make up your soul
egos clashing within
you don't know what to lead with
so you choose cruelty
sarcasm suits you like a cold suit
all stealy lines
refined of course
I never doubt your tastes
your alter egos sting me
lashing out at my honesty
your desire crushes into me
leering at my bare spots
so I pull back
deflecting with an alter of my own
did you think you were the only one
gifted at the art of pretending?
...
I hear the alters
the other yous that make up your soul
egos clashing within
you don't know what to lead with
so you choose cruelty
sarcasm suits you like a cold suit
all stealy lines
refined of course
I never doubt your tastes
your alter egos sting me
lashing out at my honesty
your desire crushes into me
leering at my bare spots
so I pull back
deflecting with an alter of my own
did you think you were the only one
gifted at the art of pretending?
...
#shadows
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2 Comments
Beneath a Burning Night
Beneath a burning night
Annihilation and shadows reign without a fight,
“A realm of destruction sending order in a rage
That forever expand the shadow-infested grave,
“Miles of rusty bridges cross out tortured soul
As we take caution not to fall in the bottomless hole,
“But the suicidal who breathes despairs’ wind
Willing jump their stupid-asses in,
“Before they know it there’re dangling in an open air prison
Created by their regret and pathetic hopeful wishing,
“Their screams by the surrounding darkness is consumed
As they...
Annihilation and shadows reign without a fight,
“A realm of destruction sending order in a rage
That forever expand the shadow-infested grave,
“Miles of rusty bridges cross out tortured soul
As we take caution not to fall in the bottomless hole,
“But the suicidal who breathes despairs’ wind
Willing jump their stupid-asses in,
“Before they know it there’re dangling in an open air prison
Created by their regret and pathetic hopeful wishing,
“Their screams by the surrounding darkness is consumed
As they...
#dark
#shadows
#suffering
#sacrifice
#curse
596 reads
2 Comments
Nightmare from the East
Hole quivers in the light of purple snap.
Sunflower's teacher!
Geometry dwells taming lake.
Fingers hold on the eruptions of forged north.
Eternal riddles about wooly summer.
Heaven powder night's drops.
Morning dances to the agony of cold winter.
Windmills blow inquisitive abandonment.
Oceans dwell the east of sumptuous knowledge.
Wonder quivers in the cold lake.
Hole's light's open wide!
Fingers sing along the north of flective agony.
Nightmare snap!
Night paces for a conscious teacher.
Sunflowers weep...
Sunflower's teacher!
Geometry dwells taming lake.
Fingers hold on the eruptions of forged north.
Eternal riddles about wooly summer.
Heaven powder night's drops.
Morning dances to the agony of cold winter.
Windmills blow inquisitive abandonment.
Oceans dwell the east of sumptuous knowledge.
Wonder quivers in the cold lake.
Hole's light's open wide!
Fingers sing along the north of flective agony.
Nightmare snap!
Night paces for a conscious teacher.
Sunflowers weep...
#anxiety
#war
#shadows
#nightmares
#hurt
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