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Best Goth Poems

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


The King of Goth
The Sussex lad, to title and land born,
An alumni, now he stands proudly tall.
In Oxford students pass at future’s dawn,
For some the inspiration was his...

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Categories: goth, anniversary, art, dedication, people,
Form: Sonnet



Tinker
A pint size spit fire that you are.
A wreckless goth chic with a permanent scare.
She fought all the girls and half the guys.
broke more than...

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Categories: goth, friendship, funny
Form: Rhyme
Generation Gap
It might be called Electrifying Pink,
that color painted on her toes
for it glows amidst the grime of her feet
winding filth up around her ankles
as if...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goth, lifesilver,
Form: Narrative
Dear Spoken Word
Dear Spoken Word
Thank for giving me 
A platform Im able to perform.
From the page to the stage
Youve been an out for me as time passed...

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Categories: goth, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Dancing With Joan Jett
Dancing with Joan Jett
Dancing close with Joan Jett is so wild, it’s 1989 and we go head to head. I’m the teen kid by the...

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Categories: goth, dance, love, music, romance,
Form: Free verse



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A spell to cast you in
Watch me!
I the queen jester,
SteamPunk aviator,
Cybor goth,
Travel these dimensions That I control...

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Categories: art, emo, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Mary's Black Labels
goth on the rocks

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Categories: goth, culture, drink,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member To the One I Lost Poetry Contest
We became us, me and Pascal
Perhaps slightly out with my rationale
But I was 18, prone to cause a fuss
Me and Pascal, we became us

Difficult goth...

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Categories: goth, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
Three
Thence they come, these thoughts again
As I brood, on mind thus dimmed
Fraught with doubt, crossed by light
Naught but rout, mine sublime such night

Shall I muse...

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Categories: goth, introspection, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'M Not the One
Who put you in charge of humanity
I’m not the one you wanted me to be
Feeling betrayed and abandoned in your eyes
Yet knowing what is right...

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Categories: goth, socialme, me,
Form: Free verse
The Conformity of Non-Conformity
There are those who heedlessly follow the crowd
There are also a few who singularly continually do not
Some of these do it to be different, while...

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Categories: goth, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clueless Job Applicant
You’ll never guess whom the cat drug in; have a day where you just couldn’t win?
He came strutting in, smacking his gum loud, dressed to...

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Categories: goth, adventure, angst, business, children,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Fetal Position In the Er
Broken but disbelieving, we wait   
for any doctor to say it’s just blood
as the gray man greens, throws-
up in triage. A Goth teen...

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Categories: goth, death, heartbreak, my child,
Form: Sestina
Gothic Art
I have always been drawn to Gothic art

It doesn't mean that I play the part,

The art to me is dark and has fantasy all in...

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Categories: goth, art, beautiful, beauty, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Over the Edge
Jack and Sam
were two inseparable souls
Best friends tend to be like that,
especially if both were born on the same day
They were two good looking kids,
who...

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Categories: goth, best friend, death, horror,
Form: Epic

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