Dark Poems | Examples of Dark Poetry

On the Cutting Stone

Some days I fly like an eagle,
some days I waddle like a duck—
today I’m fried chicken
crispy, cold, out of luck.
 
Some days I run with wild horses,
some days I hunt with the wolfpack—
today I’m a belly-up snake
on asphalt cracked and black.
 
Oh, how I swam with dolphins,
struck like white sharks through foam—
today I’m gutted salmon,
smoked

A Pub Halfway to the Heavy Affair

The largest part of this abandoned warehouse

for creative dilemma is still in the ash medium

from you reach.

Though you’ve part of this morning haze that won’t go unrecognized.

Now that we’ve finally managed to right away ahead of our views across the bridge, it seems that elsewhere you’ve made every effort to prove yourself with your wrongly

An atheist on his deathbed

An atheist living soul was floating above on  deathbed,
because if he touched it, he would leave this world.

He let the pain out and screamed through his dying soul.

A guy who was once drenched in every bit of gold
comes to him and says:
“I want to make a compromise with your soul and body—
I will save

Blooming

"Blooming" 

I think it’s distracting-

it soothes Her
the other says,
“poems, 
are something alien”

to the one reading ;

yet, it soothes Her; 

the world is wide open
in all of these moments, 
like a split seedling,
somehow, taking all of it in

dying
regeneration
blooming;

rising


Candide Diderot. ‘25

Thoughts

silhouettes of stray dogs on the horizon
strut about the streets
a cold eastern wind blows
bringing cruel june's heat

as I lay in bed forgotten and alone
my skin rots off, I turn to bone
vermin gather to feast
vultures out the window
maggots leeching out
i have wasted my life

The boy who lived in the dark

Isolation. 
He lived In a house that was never his home
He lived without a key and a place to call his own
Silence.
His mind his only friend 
Dark just like his surroundings 

His crime:
Not giving in to a system who tried to control him
Not allowing the system to indict him Of a crime he didn't commit

hiku

striking  f l a k e s  of 
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I tried to cut my toenails, but I couldn't bend

I tried to cut my toenails, but I couldn't bend.
It gets harder and harder the nearer the end.
And there's just no hope for a remedy.
Your body's becomes the enemy ~
and death a yearned for friend.

Creature of the Night

Creature of the Night

Life bleed
Life bleed
Oxygen into my soul
Street sign
Reads Everyone heed
Pay the toll
Right side of sadness
Left out in the rain

Life bleed
Brothers and sisters
One life
Concern for others
Missing the girl
You can tell by my shirt
It could be night forever
I may never miss the day
Night traveled down this lonely highway  
My brain aches again
Killer cats electric

How Long Will I Wait Before I Come Back To the Light

How long can I wait in the blaze of the sun,
Before shadows drag me down from the height?
The stars are a choir, but they do not speak,
And the sea keeps knocking with a blind white fist.

I am held by the flame, yet I ache for the dark,
Where my bones know the cool and the silence

Naive Faith

Some folks believe, "All things are true."
And darkness can alloy with light
Though sun arise, and skies shine blue
Some folks believe, "All things are true."
To Logos thence they bid adieu
Let now with good the bad unite
Some folks believe, "All things are true."
And darkness can alloy with light

Ditto

hiding in sight
with nothing inside
filling the nothing
with whatever I find

sense your dislikes
discover your tells
deforming myself
against your invisible will

slipping defenses
uncovers the key
allowing a following
re-entry

as inevitability
breaks the spell
leaving one locked door
and a broken shell

The Solemn Knight's Sky

The spiritous sky rests in veils of light,
A mystery to show great courtesy.
In his heart, he's faithfully a Star's Knight,
Rooted in green, he lives life earnestly.

Behind the Elders, the moon casts backlight.
As rambunctious winds dance and go swirling,
This lone enchanter loves the fiery night,
Where ancient trees are eagerly curling.

He sees the Grove dressed in regality,
This

Naive Faith

Claustrophobic, saturated white walls constrict,
sucking the oxygen from every molecule of deprived blood.
Hypoxic cells circulate through an increasingly unstable body,
whilst rivulets of sweat flow from clammy palms.

Insomniac reality blurs with insidious shadows,
dancing upon the ceiling.
Naive faith keeps insanity just at bay,
but with each sunrise, hope is chipped away.

How much longer can a soul survive without

Death

 Pyramids Poetry Contest 
Joseph May

DEATH
Flat line
Cold hearted

One chamber, one shot
Suicide triggers loss
A good wife left grief-stricken

"Why did he give her a black rose?

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