Okay, it’s too big to ignore. We’re confronted daily by the antithesis of Light…
Here’s a poem by Edward Baugh:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/nightwalker
and another by D.H. Lawrence. It’s worth listening to Glyn Maxwell read it as he adds an insight into Lawrence’s technique.
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/bavarian-gentians
Poems about the dark can take many turns – political, natural, personal… They raise questions, too – can the dark be positive?