This isn't the poetry they taught you in school. These are words shaped by depression, dread, and the quiet disasters that define a life. Keith Tackett has written over 100 poems across two published collections — and the darkest ones live in The Dark Archive.
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They all stood around the grave site, with flowers in their hands, The preacher said a prayer, as the widow set in silence, Some shouted out, "Why!"
From Keith Tackett's upcoming poetry collection (2026)
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Plagued by these feelings of fear, anger, and despair Storms of confusion cloud my way Obstacles of calamity stand before me,
From Faded Joy by Keith Tackett
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The darkness withdraws further, shrinking into corners of an unbuilt universe, searching for a place where I do not exist. It finds none.
From Keith Tackett's dystopia collection
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Written by Keith Tackett — author of Faded Joy and The Hollow, available on Amazon.