I inhale sharply. I’ve been terrified of the dark since I was a child. Tears fall down from my eyes. He rolls his eyes in response.
“Don’t make a scene now,” he says.
I hold my knees, just like I did when I was a little girl.
Rock rock rock.
Comfort.
That’s what I’m looking for. Comfort in everything. Comfort in life. Comfort… in the darkness.
Sock
woah. I don’t know what is going on. dark. the obvious. i can’t hear her. for once. serious or not? is this happennig or do i just think it is. im so tired now.
Anne
I’ve never experienced a blackout
I hope I never do
People get them when they’re drinking alcohol
And swear it isn’t true!
Jade
darkness that submerges an area. used to disguise or hide populated areas in world war II. sometimes used as a noun to explain a powercut in a village where st
scott
black.out.
sara
Shit! Where did I put my glasses? Is the first thing that David thinks, and the second thing he thinks is that he’s not going to bloody well need them for a while yet, now, is he? It’s not quite got round yet that the light won’t be coming back, and by the time he does he’ll have stepped on them anyway.
crabmuffins
I recently started writing Newspaper Blackout Poems with my students. You simply choose an article, then black out, with a marker, all of the words that you don’t want to use. The remaining words make up the poem. You can also use white space to create connections among the words that you leave behind. The best way to do this is to choose a topic or theme or idea from the words in the article and to go with that.
Leslie
When I woke up, I grit my teeth trying to get the scrum out. I turned to spit, just missing a girl’s head by a fraction of an inch. She was in my bed, naked, and beautiful. But how did she get here?
paisley
i remember the day of the blackout, there was nothing at all to do and all we had was light from candles. we took a walk on the dark and empty streets. when we heard it was a blackout in newyork also, my mother was worried it was going to be the apocalypse. whatever mom. turned out someone just fucked up at work. blackout 2003. people died apparently. fuck…
rachel
It was a dark night, a storm was brewing. Exactly as it hit 10:44pm the lights went blank, exactly on Janie’s birth date.
Chillyboarder
in the blackout
all
was lost.
Loretta Oelkers
time’s done
gone
pieced together somewhere
anywhere
but here, not there
anywhere.
can’t see or
speak or
hear
but tell
it’s gonna come back
someday
any day
my day.
Alex Felker
Time has stopped and all is dark
Please scream my name and release me to the world.
I can’t take the unseen anymore.
Emi
omg I cant see when is it gonna be over? Huh? Why isn’t it over? Where is everyone? I’m scared. Or maybe I can kill everyone else. Or do things I couldn’t normally do when everyone was looking. So many people would love this chance. but it is I who is getting it. I must use it. I must. I cannot waste this time.
Rogue
It just happened as I was sleeping, I heard a scream and I opened my eyes, someone stood over me, looked at me smiled an evil smile, and then BLACKOUT. two months later I woke up in a hospitl room, completely blind. It took 4 year to be able to even see an inch infront of me, now I can see for 7 feet. I’m trying to reach 10 feet by the next year.
Megan
doging mysterious forms, clusters of voices, stapler foot triped coffee janice white blouse date dont think so. i’m sure it won’t stain. what would i know? Power on! Mr. Jefferson! Mrs. Alice! really? come on you two!
A. K. H.
The curtains on the window made it seem like a blackout. None of the lights from outside penatrated the darkness. It was an empty darkness until I heard the breathing.
Becky
it happens so fast. One minute we are enjoying our preplanned evening of tv and boring. The next everything and everyone is disrupted. We are all silenced, sent spinning off into a new world ofdarkness and quiet. Each of us transplanted to a new world.
Richard
its dark, darkness falls over everything. people fear the darkness like some sort of evil being. darkness is only an absense of light. an absense which stops you seeing bad things
if we all stopped seeing bad things wouldnt the world be a more peacful place? darkness is peace. nothing matters. noone cares what is behind the black wall that surrounds us. just happy to be contained.
jerry
one night
it never happened
did it?
will it?
carolyn
the many evenings that i have consumed alcohol at college and all resulted in a blackout. It seems i can’t drink alcohol without blacking out anymore. thats sort of pathetic and i’d like to change that…i just dont know how…
a
I blacked out the second he left the room. I never thought that I would experience such pain, such mind blowing pain. It was as though my brain just shut off with one quick wheeze. I didn’t know that my brain was capable of such feats. My heart stopped beating for a split second, but my brain could never come back.
SK
blackout makes me think of the way a beautiful day can turn into a dark cold night. blackout of the mind, body, or even society brings a feeling of helplessness.
david
lights out. They did this during wars, hiding inside their houses, in the basements, in the dark, with the candles blown out and blankets over the windows. Don’t see me, don’t see me, I’m hiding, please don’t kill me. Children hiding in the dark, wondering whether they might be snuffed out in a few seconds. Ground shaking.
joda
out black in the mind, of the sky outside, thinkig around around and around i’m not sure about how to writ in wnglish i orefer spanish mor even to fly and toswim.. The ocean, blue and deep… so deep.. so black and cold.. outside
Tsuki_K
darkness surrounds me, i cant see anything. i need a candle. candles make pollution. i hate smog. and smoke. and the dark. loosing work.
I hit my head on the banister-BAM! Next thing I knew I was lying on the floor, staring up at the stucco-encrusted ceiling with a lump on my head like Bugs Bunny would have.
Jena
dark, cold. left for dead, left alone, gone, absent. tight squeeze. lungs smaller.
alley
woah man this is deep, its what you feel when your deprived of it all, locked away in your own little zone, nothing stirring, interrupting you as you peruse the secrets of the ininites. its also really crap when you’re trying to read a good book…
alec
Blackout.
The lights are out.
The sun is down and
all the world’s the shade
of the shadows.
Speaking of which
the witch over
there
is conjuring some
just
for
you.
Edward
it’s dark can’t see…………………………………………………………………………
sarrybon
My mind is actually a blackout. I can’t think about you anymore, would like YOU to be a blackout. Black the hell out, or come back.
Brigis
Blackout, whiteout
Goat
i’m staging a blackout. i will black out every thought, every memory of you. draw the curtains closed and hunker down to wait. its gonna be a long night.
B
out inthe ocean there was a giant storm and it blocked out the sun and everything died. it was a blackout. That is what happened. all of the glowwing jellyfish died. that is what they did. There was a giant whale that died too. it’s lungs deflated and filled with liquid from the ocean floor. the ships from years past all delit
michael richter
Blackouts occur when energy supply does not meet the demand. Blackouts also happen when someone drinks too much or overdoses on a substance.
Jessica Pocha
Every five minutes, the lights stop working, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. Click, click. Still nothing. I don’t like this. I don’t like this frequency or this feeling of being lost in my own house, of being afraid to turn on any appliance. I want to be in a safe place, forever.
Anne
black dead cave enemy death religion war cave shelter bombs electruicyt power lost problem dissapointing children suffering glasses contact lesnse blind.
Cal
and there I was staring at the black surrounding me
once my eyes adjusted I quickly realized that some black was my ceiling and some was my wall and I was back in my room again hiding from the day on the otherside of the curtain
Click.
The lights go off.
I inhale sharply. I’ve been terrified of the dark since I was a child. Tears fall down from my eyes. He rolls his eyes in response.
“Don’t make a scene now,” he says.
I hold my knees, just like I did when I was a little girl.
Rock rock rock.
Comfort.
That’s what I’m looking for. Comfort in everything. Comfort in life. Comfort… in the darkness.
woah. I don’t know what is going on. dark. the obvious. i can’t hear her. for once. serious or not? is this happennig or do i just think it is. im so tired now.
I’ve never experienced a blackout
I hope I never do
People get them when they’re drinking alcohol
And swear it isn’t true!
darkness that submerges an area. used to disguise or hide populated areas in world war II. sometimes used as a noun to explain a powercut in a village where st
black.out.
Shit! Where did I put my glasses? Is the first thing that David thinks, and the second thing he thinks is that he’s not going to bloody well need them for a while yet, now, is he? It’s not quite got round yet that the light won’t be coming back, and by the time he does he’ll have stepped on them anyway.
I recently started writing Newspaper Blackout Poems with my students. You simply choose an article, then black out, with a marker, all of the words that you don’t want to use. The remaining words make up the poem. You can also use white space to create connections among the words that you leave behind. The best way to do this is to choose a topic or theme or idea from the words in the article and to go with that.
When I woke up, I grit my teeth trying to get the scrum out. I turned to spit, just missing a girl’s head by a fraction of an inch. She was in my bed, naked, and beautiful. But how did she get here?
i remember the day of the blackout, there was nothing at all to do and all we had was light from candles. we took a walk on the dark and empty streets. when we heard it was a blackout in newyork also, my mother was worried it was going to be the apocalypse. whatever mom. turned out someone just fucked up at work. blackout 2003. people died apparently. fuck…
It was a dark night, a storm was brewing. Exactly as it hit 10:44pm the lights went blank, exactly on Janie’s birth date.
in the blackout
all
was lost.
time’s done
gone
pieced together somewhere
anywhere
but here, not there
anywhere.
can’t see or
speak or
hear
but tell
it’s gonna come back
someday
any day
my day.
Time has stopped and all is dark
Please scream my name and release me to the world.
I can’t take the unseen anymore.
omg I cant see when is it gonna be over? Huh? Why isn’t it over? Where is everyone? I’m scared. Or maybe I can kill everyone else. Or do things I couldn’t normally do when everyone was looking. So many people would love this chance. but it is I who is getting it. I must use it. I must. I cannot waste this time.
It just happened as I was sleeping, I heard a scream and I opened my eyes, someone stood over me, looked at me smiled an evil smile, and then BLACKOUT. two months later I woke up in a hospitl room, completely blind. It took 4 year to be able to even see an inch infront of me, now I can see for 7 feet. I’m trying to reach 10 feet by the next year.
doging mysterious forms, clusters of voices, stapler foot triped coffee janice white blouse date dont think so. i’m sure it won’t stain. what would i know? Power on! Mr. Jefferson! Mrs. Alice! really? come on you two!
The curtains on the window made it seem like a blackout. None of the lights from outside penatrated the darkness. It was an empty darkness until I heard the breathing.
it happens so fast. One minute we are enjoying our preplanned evening of tv and boring. The next everything and everyone is disrupted. We are all silenced, sent spinning off into a new world ofdarkness and quiet. Each of us transplanted to a new world.
its dark, darkness falls over everything. people fear the darkness like some sort of evil being. darkness is only an absense of light. an absense which stops you seeing bad things
if we all stopped seeing bad things wouldnt the world be a more peacful place? darkness is peace. nothing matters. noone cares what is behind the black wall that surrounds us. just happy to be contained.
one night
it never happened
did it?
will it?
the many evenings that i have consumed alcohol at college and all resulted in a blackout. It seems i can’t drink alcohol without blacking out anymore. thats sort of pathetic and i’d like to change that…i just dont know how…
I blacked out the second he left the room. I never thought that I would experience such pain, such mind blowing pain. It was as though my brain just shut off with one quick wheeze. I didn’t know that my brain was capable of such feats. My heart stopped beating for a split second, but my brain could never come back.
blackout makes me think of the way a beautiful day can turn into a dark cold night. blackout of the mind, body, or even society brings a feeling of helplessness.
lights out. They did this during wars, hiding inside their houses, in the basements, in the dark, with the candles blown out and blankets over the windows. Don’t see me, don’t see me, I’m hiding, please don’t kill me. Children hiding in the dark, wondering whether they might be snuffed out in a few seconds. Ground shaking.
out black in the mind, of the sky outside, thinkig around around and around i’m not sure about how to writ in wnglish i orefer spanish mor even to fly and toswim.. The ocean, blue and deep… so deep.. so black and cold.. outside
darkness surrounds me, i cant see anything. i need a candle. candles make pollution. i hate smog. and smoke. and the dark. loosing work.
… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … what just happened?
I hit my head on the banister-BAM! Next thing I knew I was lying on the floor, staring up at the stucco-encrusted ceiling with a lump on my head like Bugs Bunny would have.
dark, cold. left for dead, left alone, gone, absent. tight squeeze. lungs smaller.
woah man this is deep, its what you feel when your deprived of it all, locked away in your own little zone, nothing stirring, interrupting you as you peruse the secrets of the ininites. its also really crap when you’re trying to read a good book…
Blackout.
The lights are out.
The sun is down and
all the world’s the shade
of the shadows.
Speaking of which
the witch over
there
is conjuring some
just
for
you.
it’s dark can’t see…………………………………………………………………………
My mind is actually a blackout. I can’t think about you anymore, would like YOU to be a blackout. Black the hell out, or come back.
Blackout, whiteout
i’m staging a blackout. i will black out every thought, every memory of you. draw the curtains closed and hunker down to wait. its gonna be a long night.
out inthe ocean there was a giant storm and it blocked out the sun and everything died. it was a blackout. That is what happened. all of the glowwing jellyfish died. that is what they did. There was a giant whale that died too. it’s lungs deflated and filled with liquid from the ocean floor. the ships from years past all delit
Blackouts occur when energy supply does not meet the demand. Blackouts also happen when someone drinks too much or overdoses on a substance.
Every five minutes, the lights stop working, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. Click, click. Still nothing. I don’t like this. I don’t like this frequency or this feeling of being lost in my own house, of being afraid to turn on any appliance. I want to be in a safe place, forever.
black dead cave enemy death religion war cave shelter bombs electruicyt power lost problem dissapointing children suffering glasses contact lesnse blind.
and there I was staring at the black surrounding me
once my eyes adjusted I quickly realized that some black was my ceiling and some was my wall and I was back in my room again hiding from the day on the otherside of the curtain
how did i get here? when did i blackout?