We will come back to earth some fragrant night,Īnd take these lanes to find the sea, and bendingīreathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.īecause she loved it? Sarya Abra, “Test” Leobogang Mashile, “ Love is Elastic” Vijay Seshadri, “Enlightenment” Rumi, “A Great Wagon” Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, Ignorance wills something imagined which it believes exists. Though you probably shouldn’t read dark poems every day, sometimes they are exactly what you need.ĭusty or kept Dunya Mikhail, “Bag of Bones” Reginald Dwayne Betts, “For the City That Nearly Broke Me” Louise Glück, “ The Myth of Innocence”īut ignorance cannot will knowledge. They contain darkness in all of its forms: grief, death, anxiety, rage, despair, loneliness, jealousy, doubt, heartbreak, and betrayal. Below is a collection of full poems, excerpts, and poetry readings that walk in shadow. I can’t help but love poetry like this, and these dark months of winter have inspired me to share a few of my favorites. They verbalize the shattered mirror through which we occasionally catch glimpses of our world. In the best cases, these dark poems give us catharsis. ![]() ![]() Though poetry can be full of light and laughter, it can also capture sorrow, pain, and the fragility of life. She recently published her debut novel, a psychological thriller called When We Go Missing, and blogs about books and writing on her website A Writer's Workshop. ![]() Though there will always be a place in her heart for numbers and graphs, the rest of her love is given to words. Kristen Twardowski stumbled her way through working with wolves and libraries and found her professional home doing marketing and data analysis in the publishing industry.
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