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Best Apocalypse Poems

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Premium Member Apocalypse Now
Running through the Lost Forest of no tomorrows, my heart beats at warp speed as the hideous howls draw nearer. My thoughts briefly digress to...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: apocalypse, anxiety, fear,
Form: Haibun



Apocalypse
Careless whispers from sordid lips
Echo through the wooded landscape of hearts.
Destructive wants and needless needs,
Carried on the remnants of rust and bone,
Discarded amongst the fallen...

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Categories: apocalypse, betrayal, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cradled In the Arms of Midnight
Aloft, the gem was mounted in black velvet skies
A refulgent pearl, surrounded by glistening stars
Cradled in the arms of midnight, it hung as a prize,
as...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: apocalypse, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Final Farewell
To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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Categories: apocalypse, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Burial
The burial ground,  groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they...

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Categories: apocalypse, cute love, endurance, love,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Noise
It started with one utterance 
that grew into a shout.
That cry grew louder in his ear.
He could not get it out.

The bellowing prolonged itself,
and then...

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Categories: apocalypse, confusion, cry,
Form: Quatrain
Soulful Eyes
Behind the elaborate mask I wear
Beyond the depths of blue soulful eyes
Beneath the painted lips and coiffured hair
my tears flow into an estuary of sorrowful...

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Categories: apocalypse, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Elicit Illicit Lucid Dreams -Contains Nudity-
~JSLambert does not (currently:) use, or encourage hallucinogenic drug use.

    Telepathic psilocybin prescription erasing elastic depression. Competition 
wanes, just when nocturnal emission...

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Categories: apocalypse, allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Flipped Hourglass
In my vantage-point the vast oceans are warming,
The sea levels are rising, while today is melting,
Cracking thick ice-shields crowning Artic, Antarctic
And ferocious intensity is churning...

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Categories: apocalypse, environment, natural disasters, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Through the Backwaters
Boated through the tantalizing Kerala backwater
                   ...

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Categories: apocalypse, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Descent of Man
Knowledge and wisdom are not found
in the chaotic crowd's cacophony of voices
caused by fear and frustration
They gather like swarms of locusts
on emotional wings of hysteria
Their...

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Categories: apocalypse, betrayal, conflict, society,
Form: Verse
Corona Virus Welcome To the Uk
Its here the thing we all fear, 
The apocalypse is near,
The devils spurn has risen,
Trapping us in our homes like prisons,

To plague our planet already...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: apocalypse, care, death, sick, society,
Form: Rhyme
Coronality Part 1
CORONALITY (1)

Polyneuropathy of a poisonous dark child,
Weapon of mass destruction,
Born to the family called Earth,
Name Corona, last name Virus,
Nickname Covid, aged nineteen (19),
Nationality China, who...

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Categories: apocalypse, death, earth, grief, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trash Trucks
Chirpy birds disturb my deep sleep.
Sky pastels reflect in a somber ashen tinge.
Sun seems to be lost in a floating mist,
cloaking wet slates and chimney...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: apocalypse, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Red Moon Rising
Red Moon Rising

A beat of my heart skips
When I hear of the event lunar eclipse
Blood moon illuminating Earth’s umbras 
Dust and darkness overwhelming auras 
Yellow...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: apocalypse, analogy, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

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