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Best Dark Fantasy Poems

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Premium Member Forbidden Love
Is it possible that an angel and a demon could fall in love?
And, remain soul mates for all eternity?
Yes, and I will tell you how...

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Categories: dark fantasy, angel, dark, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fool of Infiniti and Queen of Fate
Fool of Infiniti

A wanton bird pecks at the stars
A Jester peers through crystal bars
This prison of love with rainbow hue
Illusion parts to lets you through

On...

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Categories: dark fantasy, dark, fantasy, feelings, horse,
Form: Lay
Rainfall
Hiding alone in the shadows

guarded, trusting no one

silently watching, waiting

Is life worth living?

Can anyone save him?

His vision clouded, blurred

The sunless skies have him confused

Rainfall begins

a...

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Categories: dark fantasy, confusion, dark, fantasy, rain,
Form: Free verse
My First Five Poems
My First Five Poems

Silhouetted against the backdrop of Central Park,
the Black Magic Woman brazenly frolicked in the dark,
"Do you know me?” she cryptically asked,
steel gray...

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Categories: dark fantasy, dark, fantasy, write,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wishful Thinking
Tossing on my rocking chair,
In pitch sable dark of the night,
Where no stars shimmer in the sky,
Waiting for the early morning light.
The bay window is...

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Categories: dark fantasy, autumn, dark, fantasy, moon,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Murdered By My Own Shadow
Cold misty clouds rise above the grates
The streets only illumination, tossing shadows like pennies
Faded street lamps at each end
The cold is biting, as I roll...

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Categories: dark fantasy, dark, fantasy, murder, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
The Computer Screen
Of the items in the store,
All were second hand
An old computer did I buy,
With a broken stand

One side was badly scratched
Two knobs were missing too
But...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark fantasy, computer, conflict, dark, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monsters Fear Me
Monsters Fear Me

The evil hand of Darkland stayed my play
punishing innocence in a most cruel way
Deep were the slashes cut into my back
No charm did...

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Categories: dark fantasy, conflict, dark, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Craved
She
Craved
For the beast.
Amidst his lair
In candle surround,
Ripped white linen clings
As their sweated bodies writhe.
In unification, his seed
Shall spawn the beginning of the dark.
Whilst his translucent...

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Categories: dark fantasy, dark, fantasy, love, lust,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member a moon's madness -
You lay among
the sheets, as still as
death itself,
tho' your bosom
rises-and-falls with
gentle breaths ...
what do you dream,
my darling?
Oh surely, of fancies that
shame this trembling
night.

Moonlight thru
louvers paints...

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Categories: dark fantasy, dark, fantasy, moon, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Primal
primal timelessness
midnight bonfire by the beach
back to dawn of time



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on March 16, 2019...

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Categories: dark fantasy, appreciation, dark, fantasy, fire,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Light At the End of the Tunnel
"What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said,
In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead.

We would all go for...

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Categories: dark fantasy, adventure, dark, fantasy, friendship
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Beware
The rimpledeeduggs klacklety splatt britly floaming,
Ere flamping drakkurz snazzle at elvitty gloaming;
Yon jamweezy wudderslimps gamwracks smotly crawling,
Hoytaling pagartrimps flotlessly wrothful in bawling!

Beete stell ere yethle...

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Categories: dark fantasy, dark, fantasy, fear, fun,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Premium Member Within Hellish Abyss, Sounds Serpent's Hiss, Part One
Within Hellish Abyss, Sounds Serpent's Hiss

Some tales he admires, considers so great,
in that clear vein, he does not hesitate.
Writing as madman, pen splashing hot ink,
there...

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Categories: dark fantasy, art, dark, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beckoning Beyond
moonlit sways and swoons
dance of muses 
in the dark



submitted on March 31, 2018 to contest EARLY APRIL 2018 PREMIERE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND...

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Categories: dark fantasy, dance, dark, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Senryu

Book: Shattered Sighs