Best Apocalyptic Poems
A Lighthearted Peek At The Apocalyptic World Of Poetry ContestsThis contest style’s description is one I’ve never heard
I’m unfamiliar with that particular word
An internet search comes up empty
However, others seem to have poems aplenty
My eyes are getting blurry a total collapse seems imminent
Quickly penning an entry appears to be the...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, fun, humor, satire, word
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic PurityIncite the words that take me through
Unload your fears and call them truth
Stand up and consecrate your hate
Follow along, or die alone in debate
Just look at everything there is
Either products of pain or products of bliss
Just look at everyone that knows
Either running towards or waiting...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, introspection, life, philosophy, visionary,
Form:
Lyric
Pitch-Dark Rain: ApocalypticPitch Dark Rain: Apocalyptic
vanished polar ice
oceans’ currents all askew. . . .
skylines blaze scarlet
comes a scathing wind
scorching land left not immersed. . . .
waters turn crimson
moans escape parched tongues
prayers ascend to ashen skies. . . .
pitch-dark rain pounds down
For Royal Ninja's Crimson Poetry Contest...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, dark, rain,
Form:
Haiku
Apocalyptic VisionsEarths red crust shudders
Skyline crackles purple forks
Famine feet flurry
My willow tree scorched
Lunar eclipse eternal
Barefoot beach walk dream
Volcanic ash views
A black season treelines crunch
Whimpered solo bark
Stagnant water tea
Pungent roots and herbs galore
Humanless abyss...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, anger, animal, color, environment,
Form:
Haiku
Apocalyptic SightApocalyptic sight
Six pairs of Homeric children’s eyes
Over the tomb of ice gray world
Multiply my infinite sorrow into sins with no eyes or ears
In tangents of nostalgia
I kiss the death there that life suffers lung cancer
Biblical accusation pierces the silence of solitary harp in...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, children, death, prayer, autumn,
Form:
Classicism
Post-Apocalyptic BluesHas Granny gone batty?
She tells us of love,
Of flowers and trees
And a thing called a ‘dove’.
But none of these things exist now today,
Since the world heated up
And the lakes turned to clay.
The deserts are barren
Around our estate,
It’s a fight for survival,
A fight against...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, funny, imagination, natural disasters,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a streaked glass pane,
jeers jubilant,
mocking.
Brutality is shocking?
tiny orifices torn
by cruel adult...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, earth, earth day, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
Lone ApocalypticSand paper shores *******he seasons to shift into a new dawn. I believed the skies would forever hold their pillows damp with the rain, along with the sunshine. Can you smell the plague come pouring down like a summer storm? See the hollowed graves scattered...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, dark, write,
Form:
Blank verse
The Apocalyptic BeatitudesBlessed is he that readeth, and they that hear (Rev 1:3)
And the dead that die in the Lord (Rev 14:13).
Blessed is he that watches and keeps his garments (Rev 16:15)—
The marriage supper he’ll applaud (Rev 19:9).
Blessed and holy is he that takes part
In the first...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Ritualsthe nuclear snakes
slither into disaster
warheads waiting
in the dithering wings
~~~!~~~X~~~#~~~>>>
light explodes
darkness erupts
fiery projectiles
obliterate without mercy
the reptilian warlords
fumble through flames
apocalypse waiting
amid withering declarations...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, dark, natural disasters, society,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic MuseBy: Liam Wilson
Deep she lurks within me
My craft she does infuse
The dreadful siren’s call
Apocalyptic Muse
Rises with the Autumn
With torpor slumber blues
And bade me record her dreams
My scribing at her cues
Her words my hands do write
Subtleties of abuse
Captured at her whim
And held there through her ruse
Embraced...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, autumn, inspiration,
Form:
Quatrain
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to hide
the predator inside.
Ten thousand creatures sacrificed;
but really, what’s the loss?
Apply...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, earth, earth day, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
How Far Down Do You Need To GoHow far down do you need to go_
~to stand face to face and toe to toe_
~with that no-good son of a so and so?
Taking not only yourself but all you know.
Descending from on high to deep below_
How many of your friends are now your foe?
Rejecting...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, conflict, corruption, courage, emotions,
Form:
List
Rose Meadow: In the Future, There Will Be No MeadowsIn the Future, there will be no rose meadows, a desolate barren hellscape of ecocide normalized. The bleakness of reality
made possible by the dominion of the Earth.
Corporations contaminate the atmosphere we once breathed. They poisoned the air so they could sell gas masks to...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, corruption, death, earth, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Gods and Robots, Part IThere was a belief that the gods of old
received all their great power from our prayers,
that out sacrifices, supplications
made them so strong we’d look on and despair.
But it turned out the truth was quite different,
when we were confronted by the gods of old,
they cared not...
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Categories:
apocalyptic, crazy, creation, dark, death,
Form:
Epic