Dark Poems | Examples of Dark Poetry

I king of the hostile quasar ! stelliferous beast without origin anechoic void-crown usurper of the throne without end upon a tundra in the cosmic septentrional : fantastically obscure to the naked human eye and...Read the rest...

Birthday Poem to Myself by Michael R. Burch LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence, Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous, but come! Come live among us; come dwell again, happy child among men— men rejoicing to have known you in the familiar manger’s cool sweet light scent...Read the rest...

We are blessed with our planet and its solar system the sun shines bringing heat to us and plants that brighten everything with blasts of colour and aroma fills our world with heavenly scent. Trees dot themselves on hills...Read the rest...

Enshrouded in the moon’s ethereal grace, Skin aglow with celestial trace. A smile, a devil’s tempting lure of sin, Alluring lips, plush and dark, a sinister grin. Your hair, a river of raven’s gentle flow, Beneath the moonbeam’s soft,...Read the rest...

O child of Mother Africa The tortoise is still on the road Realities cannot hold, dreams dying Hopes turn to ashes every day Cry O Ghana, O Ghana Rich and green Nation Shame and poverty clothe the people Electricity is being...Read the rest...

"Another Better World" These little sins you smoothly skip across the waters of fairweather lives like darkness hidden underneath deadly white lies, like throwing pebbles casually across The Lake of Tears that reflect rippling rings rapidly racing outwards...Read the rest...

A gutsy move to say the least, A desperate reach to say the most. There's nothing I can say right now, If I'm to meet my greatest ghost. This feeling of the ending near, Yet I can't seem to lift...Read the rest...

My voice is filled with broken tremors, As I describe the layers of my pain. Each breath blows out the bitter emptiness, And I hear myself going insane. I interact with demons I battle, And I force...Read the rest...

The devil dances in your eyes Whispering sweet nothings and lies It's only a shame your gaze Can no longer see past the malaise That corrupts your brain And fills you with pain Lips tight and language curt The words cut deep...Read the rest...

We stepped in pathless wood on fading twilight. Dusty dusk with misty mask...Read the rest...

We finally arrived after going through metal detectors passing through so many children mothers praying for their sons then there was us my curiosity of it all passing the guards I felt strange this place...Read the rest...

The vampire exited the saloon doors covered in blood her gaze enamors; Cowboys on horses stop mid motion to see what was causing the commotion; Mysterious woman dealing black jack, apparently someone had tried to attack; Whiskey shots were...Read the rest...

I’m craving a smoke I’m craving a drag, a poisonous and toxic puff of smog to fill my empty lungs to pass the time to feel the burn in my throat. I fill my body with solitude and meditate in cramped...Read the rest...

Beneath the churning skies and wrathful sea, A lone man wails into swirling agony. Each crashing wave, a relentless assault, Mirroring the chaos of his inner tumult. Beneath tempestuous heavens, alone he fights, His vessel, both refuge and dungeon,...Read the rest...

A dark soul long immersed in a grey world Awakened to a spirit’s shining beam And foolishly presumed as he uncurled His destiny was to possess her gleam. The dark youth’s folly then was slowly dimmed By...Read the rest...