Dark Poems | Examples of Dark Poetry

it's easy to say that you're fine it's better than the questions that follow a confession but life isn't about the light at the end of the tunnel or maybe it is and I'm just too sad to...Read the rest...

Bird with feathers of fire, phoenix metronome, bursts on the edges of the atmosphere. Crumbling to dust, ash and powdery bones, fore a chance never truly appears. A velleity is made at her shooting tomb, deities will not honor this...Read the rest...

Wandering alone with a heart that’s aching evidence The fences you’re always sitting on, more numerous than my internal injustices Not that I can really talk Choking on all my hypocrisies And biting my...Read the rest...

THE IMPERSONATOR SAT BEHIND HER DESK OF TWICKERY FALSIFYING FILES AND MURDER CASES RECRUITING VIOLENT OFFENDERS TO END MY LIFE OVER MY AMERICAN POETRY MY FEAR ANXIETY LED ME TO CONTACT THE FBI AS I...Read the rest...

In the shadows they lurk and in the light of the moon they hide, clock strikes 12 and in caves they dwell the streets they play scratching upon the graves. These ghastly ghouls or monsters...Read the rest...

It was your guilt And inability to accept yourself as you really are It was your need to be better than me And unwillingness to try very hard To do it by merit So it was your insults and...Read the rest...

a murder of crows morph into shadows no suspects in sight...Read the rest...

As I pivot to confront my offspring, I anticipate the sight of terror etched in their innocent eyes, a reflected horror that would mirror the abyssal darkness that has long resided within me. Instead, I am...Read the rest...

Long for the tender tormenting touch of her slips, a vermillion vice of the abyssal depths that lay within the merest brush of her breath, a zephyr's caress that set aflame the parched arid landscapes...Read the rest...

Still...Is life. On a precipice. Leave your lights down low, and listen... ...Read the rest...

A rustic swirling synthetic timeless illusion, phantom birthed blossom from emanate silence, The subtle distinction, ghastly gavotte to cremation, a nuance that belies the true nature of our relationship. You think you speak to me, me, speaks to...Read the rest...

Crossroads in the desert sands swirls, an orb whirls around as clouds gather, lightning bolt violet violently twirls, roads crack with shotgun thunder. Visage a pearl cascades as she approaches me, cut through the dirt she speaks a litany reverie, “You...Read the rest...

In the cartographies merger with the soul, where topographies bring thought converge, a hidden rose blooms, its petals unfolding, like a cipher's dark emerge, thorns burst contradiction piercing the hymen with certitude, as the benthic depths, a chthonic whisper, exhale the secrets unsaid...Read the rest...

It's shadowed in darkness, growling like a hound Creeping about, whispering as it slithers around Begging for attention, for it desires to be found Silence is loud when its echoes continually resound Behold, it comes masked, disguised in these...Read the rest...

Blue pool had brave man quite transfixed whose thoughts might seem muddled and mixed dare he risk sweet life with deep pain and strife or ponder awhile in betwixt...Read the rest...