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A Red Palm
by Gary Soto

You're in this dream of cotton plants.
You raise a hoe, swing, and the first weeds
Fall with a sigh. You take another step,
Chop, and the sigh comes again,
Until you yourself are breathing that way
With each step, a sigh that will follow you into town.

That's hours later. The sun is a red blister
Coming up in your palm. Your back is strong,
Young, not yet the broken chair

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Disabled
by Wilfred Owen

He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park
Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,
Voices of play and pleasure after day,
Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.

About this time Town used to swing so gay
When glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees,
And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim,-

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The Country Of Marriage
by Wendell Berry

I.

I dream of you walking at night along the streams
of the country of my birth, warm blooms and the nightsongs
of birds opening around you as you walk.
You are holding in your body the dark seed of my sleep.

II.

This comes after silence. Was it something I said

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Courage
by Robert William Service

Today I opened wide my eyes,
And stared with wonder and surprise,
To see beneath November skies
An apple blossom peer;
Upon a branch as bleak as night
It gleamed exultant on my sight,
A fairy beacon burning bright
Of hope and cheer.

'Alas! ' said I, 'poor foolish thing,

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Crazy
by Laxmi Prasad Devkota

1.
Oh yes, friend! I'm crazy-
that's just the way I am.

2.
I see sounds,
I hear sights,
I taste smells,
I touch not heaven but things from the underworld,
things people do not believe exist,

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dreaming of kaleidoscopes
by Chris Wind

whirls a storm
of scarlet and crimson
the cobweb drips
and black and blue

black blue shrouds
the bleeding petals
torn
ragged
scabs and scars

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Dead Tree
by N Jacob

I was sitting under the Sigillaria Tree.
For I have been set free,
So I scream with glee!
While the stitching made me bleed.
I am forced to concede.

Forced my arms to my chest,
And I hold me close with no rest,
For I am trapped in this stitched arm unrest,
I am the court jester.

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Darkness
by Aryan Bhardwaj

Darkness being an introvert, has
a different meaning for me

It not only means no light
but a world away so bright

Darkness, the absence of people or
a crowd so large...

it prevents a busload of feelins

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... am I?
by Brandon Saulter

I woke up in this place. It's dark, I can't see. I don't know where I am.
I call out for help. Can anyone hear me? I don't think they can.
Fear sets in. I freeze.
My breath gets shallow and I drop to my knees.
Are my eyes closed? Are they open? Why can't I see?
What is going on? I need to stop and to breathe.
I breathe in. I breathe out. I breathe in. And out.
Is this a dream? Am I dead? What's this about?
My heart is pounding. Like it wants out of my chest.
I can feel it, so I'm real. But what about the rest?

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brooklyn after dark
by Sarah A

Trees stand like strangers in the dark

cigarette still smoking smudged on the street

lonely wanderers hunting to make their mark

Brazenly searching for anyone to greet

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    Mary Darby Robinson (39 poems about Dark)
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  • James Macpherson
    James Macpherson (33 poems about Dark)
    27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796 / Ruthven, Kingussie, Badenoch, Inverness-Shire, Scotland
  • Philip Levine
    Philip Levine (32 poems about Dark)
    January 10, 1928 / Detroit, Michigan
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    Siegfried Sassoon (28 poems about Dark)
    1886 - 1967 / Kent / England
  • William Blake
    William Blake (27 poems about Dark)
    28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 / London
  • David Herbert Lawrence
    David Herbert Lawrence (27 poems about Dark)
    D.H. Lawrence] (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930 / Nottinghamshire / England
  • Henry Van Dyke
    Henry Van Dyke (26 poems about Dark)
    10 November 1852 – 10 April 1933 / Germantown, Pennsylvania
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    Dylan Thomas (22 poems about Dark)
    27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 / Swansea / Wales
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