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Dirge Poems - Poems about Dirge

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Dry Ice Surface
...In the abyssal depths, hope is bled dry to die A requiem for all blurs my vision, blurry and blind The stars distant fading whisper, loses glimmer As creation's song is reduced to a mournful shive......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark,
Form: Elegy



Specter Looms
...I died the other day, fore am but a wraith, manipulated by creatures, leeches of the realm moribund. Scars etch my face from lobotomies, artistry crafted with a silver brush, scalpel carves s......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark, death, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
All Along the Watchtower
... In twilight’s grasp, where shadows cling, The Watchtower stands—a somber thing. Its stones, like secrets, cold and gray, Whisper tales of faith’s decay. Within those walls, devoutly blind, ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, bible, dark, devotion, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will
...“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.” – General George Pickett Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze Stood Pickett with his face etched......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, death, history, slavery, violence,
Form: Ballad
We All Float
...In the tenebrous, xenial realm of the lake, where human cadavers oscillate, suspended by verdigris chains, a lamia of unholy provenance, orchestrates a gambits cavalcade. Each mortal she ensnares,......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark,
Form: Free verse



Coward's And Complainers
...In negative word's the coward's song, A whispered plea where they belong. No light to guide their trembling feet, They hide from life, their fears complete. Complainers sigh with heavy breath, ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hollow Chest
...Bonfire fly it’s light high into the nigh A flicker where I see you countenance Ironically to splay the feast In that glimmer Something simmered Two never be released Touch me, rub me, kissy ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Lips Curl At Your Fiddles
...(Piece is intended to be the most complex vocabulary gothic ever) Grandiloquence, mellifluous pulchritudinous, gaiety of quintessential moistening serendipity, bile deluge if you show the sangu......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, anger, beauty, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Tire of The Canopies
...Sovereign or martyr thus gravitas none dolorous, dirge has keyed the grave motif to your succubus, organs glistening as the innards burst vile viscera, to bite on carbon release hammers sledge Inv......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark, deep, earth, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Will always be on my Mind
...She lay serenely on the cold slab Elegantly dressed in white, A secret smile embossed upon her lips That even death could ne'er erase. I looked at her for quite some time. My memories dwel......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Thinkable unthinkable knee, are you still composing poetry?
...Your most recent interest in observational truth in laptop monitor Gave you an ultimatum today. He , as she, in he, as she again, grabbed you in all kinds of tree , remnant there before serenity ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Lost Track of a Ginger Snap
...Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun. Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone, something must be wrong, I ask she looked at me and welts started to run, down we hunkered ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
Acts of Horror Gets Horror
...Eyeless it manifested from the depths of the abyssal darkness of the woods. Hide reflective more muscle almost fleshless ribbon peeled back skull necklace. Limbs contort and pop grotesque as it mov......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark, death, dog, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Requiem for a Motherless Child
...I was buried in a tomb for unknown persons. When I was alive I knew nothing of this life. Now that I'm dead I seem to have acquired it all. My heartless mother abandoned me, unwanted, Left me on ......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, baby, death,
Form: Free verse
Crimson Bouquet
...In spectral glow moon's pallor, country home towered ominously, fortress bearing silent the tragedy, ensnared within its stone. Her footfalls echoed in the hollow foyer, mournful dirge in the c......Read the rest...
Categories: dirge, dark, gothic, grief, horror,
Form: Free verse

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