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Best Doom Poems

Below are the all-time best Doom poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of doom poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member It Matters Not
It hovers here, a moon opaque,
obscuring mountain trails I take.
No other living things appear.
A moon opaque. . . It hovers here.

I follow on along a...

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Categories: doom, dark, lost love,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart
    "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"



Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...

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Categories: doom, death, death, god, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: doom, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: doom, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member We Rulers of the Earth
We Rulers Of This Earth

Homo-Sapiens we call ourselves, rulers of this Earth,
   Intelligent and civilized, but what is all this worth?

We're working hard...

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Categories: doom, angst, corruption, drug, earth,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: doom, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumnal
I remember clinging on to the naked branch,
which had been my home since the season of birth.
In my days of botanical glory,
flourishing and nourishing in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doom, analogy, autumn, innocence, perspective,
Form: Personification
I Slipped On a Tear Drop
I  s l i p p e d  on a teardrop and landed in her arms. She never knew how much I needed...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: doom, death, sister, suicide,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Moth
A lone moth flits around my front porch light
as wind blows through my window, luring me
to step outside into black velvet’s night.

I search the sky,...

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Categories: doom, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Blessings In the Loving Arms of Jesus
Blessings are real
Blessings are true
Blessings are sent from God to you

Early in the mornings 
In late afternoons
Blessings despite the gloom and doom

Blessings are free
Blessings will...

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Categories: doom, blessing, jesus, motivation,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Haunting
Cold, so cold, as everything seems to enshroud me 
encasing light, the flame of life - darkness within.
Slivers of blue, ice my lips, like a...

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Categories: doom, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sex After 40
(WARNING  SIGNS)

You are old and fragile
Claiming to be a lion when in bed
In some way, you remind me of the walking dead
Your bones make...

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Categories: doom, body, change, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Voice
The Voice…

On a dark night that was darker than my pain,
     nothing was there for me except to complain.
I hid myself...

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Categories: doom, imagination, journey, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Remembered In Thy Full Bloom,Collaboration By Robert J Lindley, Teppo Gren and Michael P Clark
Remembered In Thy Full Bloom 
A Collaboration By,
Robert Lindley, Teppo Gren
and  Michael P Clarke.


Thou art remembered in thy full bloom,
a rose grown within my...

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Categories: doom, art, creation, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Was Sent, Treasure That Healed Two Crushed Hearts - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Life shattered, soul crushed, another one has perished 
once gone from this world was all she ever cherished
No amazing and joyful tales to tell the...

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Categories: doom, beauty, fate, hope, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things