Dark Poems | Examples of Dark Poetry

Zounds! longing for a merciful descent into the terminal ground where smoky eyes semi-watch streams of semi-(dis)information exhaled from smoking brains on a mission to search & deconstruct ticking clocks taunt timely bombs lost in purple blobs of orange haze awaiting purging deluges sprinkled with white bolts of blinding hell the raving raven's feathers flicker while flippant tentacles grope...Read the rest...

I know you are afraid just like I am the streets were empty the night was dark how to face our fears when there's no one on your back? how to stop the heart from racing when the dogs bark? Jessica...Read the rest...

the darkness of night soft shadows where one can hide perhaps then to dream ...Read the rest...

The distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or lying there, depleted? Many of us meet our end wishing...Read the rest...

When silence speaks in broken dialects, to harmonize hurt, I ponder, would the sky unravel synonyms for serenity, amidst piercing thunder that strikes through raining regrets~ upon flowers, swaying forsaken, to butterfly ballads? But will oblivious...Read the rest...

Grief holds me in bed Beats me down Destroys my mind I can't bring myself to face it....Read the rest...

Our bodies fit together Like two perfect puzzle pieces Not sure when It was I realized You're all I want and needed A few stands of misty moonlight The ink on your chest is...Read the rest...

It's been a long time since a smile graced this face, the voices say, 'The pain will go away.' Wearing a mask to cover the decay, the voices say, 'Embrace the pain.' Been strong for so long...Read the rest...

Born in December on a cold winter’s day I was baptised a Christian without any say My life given direction before I could walk A school then chosen before I could talk I went through communion and was soon...Read the rest...

Today, the doorbell of my mental hideout rang. It rang with a sound like twinkling waterfalls without the moisture, And tweeted like a soft pillow from my 5-year-old camping nest. The scorching glare of darkness crawled up the...Read the rest...

You caught me running, constantly looking back, tears merging within the rain. If I took a leap, would I fly? Left behind, the mole above your lip, laughter in your eyes, jaded progression. It could have been...Read the rest...

5/6/24 I got to grind All the time In order to rise As it coincides and goes with time An ode that's signed With an open mind Looking at it from both sides Otherwise I'll just nosedive If I fuss and whine When there's...Read the rest...

Low below the foaming seam, Slowly grows a bright red gleam, Only known in my own dreams, Lonely drone of evil schemes. It swims fast, it wont last, But right now it's forever, It kills me, it always sees, Let me go?...Read the rest...

light … and dark - shadow and bright are diametrically opposed and intricately interdependent we must learn to not fear the dark for it holds the same delight, the same color the same purpose and excitement the same realizations … unseen and it harbors...Read the rest...

Welcome to the house of nightmares and fears All of it lives above my ears My thoughts run here and my thoughts run there None of it will ever, ever be fair I always imagine the worst will happen Like...Read the rest...