Emo Poems | Examples of Emo Poetry

I’ve moved out (of school), I’m moving in (to school). My joke is that I’m having a ‘moving experience.’ Graduating college (3 days ago) was a dream come true I’m starting a master’s degree in 7 days. You have to admire the efficiency. Do I have your permission to bear my soul? I might have imposter syndrome. I’m a harsh critic—of everything—but mostly...

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The sunset tides will wash me away Jaded, but I try And now I stand to hear my breathless breaths. Over the white noise, screaming out "Sunrise, sunset, can you wash away the rain?" My...

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Flapping without flying. It feels okay. Your scales of fur corrode. A foul, but sweet, but warm, but damp... Scent of something new. You're red and blue tomorrow, Yellow, pink, today. But forever, I'd say grey. You're white, dirtied, pure. Once lost, but now at home. If invaders must die, Make yourself the furniture. You can stain my doormat red, So you can see me before we part. And...

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I love this road. Every little mound, and every crevasse, Flower filled, to the brim. The moths and mosquitos caught in my headlamps. Trees of aspen and oak keeping me on track. And here, the night clouds are much darker than the night sky. And jets zoom 50 metres above my head, asking, "What are you here for?" In which I respond, "I'm...

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Oh my God— if only he knew that drowning doesn’t look like thrashing, it looks like stillness. Like bleeding ink onto walls that won’t answer back. We could’ve saved him— or maybe he could’ve saved me. But instead, we decorate our breakdowns with blackout curtains, counting hours like they’re sins we committed in silence. He said the nights were far too long. I said, “This is just the...

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You tied the noose that I hang from I stare at the writing on the wall I feel like all the words are written wrong My feet can’t find the stall I wish my thoughts would just be gone I am the rope in which they tie I can’t seem to shape the future of my life Got me thinking am I...

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{ emo music inspired poem } ELEPHANT WOMAN She is Elephant Woman you cannot hide from her in houses of brick or glass or lined velvet curtains whether it sits on Signal Hill or in Newlands bourgeois class cannot run to mantra mats, rosaries cheese savouries or even Sulawesi forest caves She is descended ! Close her off with broken fridges and...

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you take the sunshine, ill take the shade and we'll grow apart, I'll keep the rain and snow, the moonbeam's gaze, the trees that shiver when they sway, and you'll get all the sunny days, the friendly waves, the "are you ok?" 's and per the terms of my departure i promise not to make a martyr of the bumps and bruises I've sustained...

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There is so much pain inside of me. My heart is sinking deep in my chest. My body has grown so weak, But I hurt too much to rest . I try to remember when I was happy, Yet those memories won't come back. Where those memories should be, I can't see anything but black. My memories of happiness are gone. They have all...

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break and believe in faith i dismiss, tree though i exit begone, and more hide, in front of fair let fall the tasting of me blind is your loving waste i'll be giant and brief callousing the freckle you beg did she get some off of you casually? did my decrepit posture run in cinders? i have know in lies spiteful choicing you that exit is only for...

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Throw an arrow, remember to sharpen it before it reaches it's end target Who is naïve enough to cross your parameters of closeness Capture this person whose mere sight you adore Aim at their legs, your prey will land face first on the floor Don't be scared, Don't you worry This is how love is meant...

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In front of the Cathedral, time lets its wounds bleed. A woman with hands hollowed by prayer shakes her palms to count her outline, to see if she still exists, if her skin is heavier than the air, more real than the shadow. But the wind takes her body and tears it apart, and in the eyes of the passersby, only...

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Predetermined prostitution Selling out to make it big Gendered, soulless horrification Getting greedy to feed the pig Horrifying landscape changes Maintenance of status quo Antagonistic soul estranges Burning embers afterglow Disregarded foolish notions Swept along by blood and greed Fanciful and dark devotions Haunt me now until I'm freed Set my soul for resurrection Save me from these dire straits Bounded by a predilection Tumultuation...

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Engulfed in the smouldering dusk of a fractured nation, A voice claws through the cracks of static screens, And suppressed speakers, A distorted hymn for the disenchanted, A battle cry for the misled. The people in power berate us with Propaganda and paranoia pumped into our living rooms, ...

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I was once quite happy Then one day it went away This numbness and pain moved in I believe it's here to stay. What used to make me laugh Now only seems to make me cry. The things I once lived for Now make me want to die. There are events that happened Each one has changed my life. Creating a feeling in my soul As...

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