Gloom Poems - Poems about Gloom

Living for Today

Over fourteen years ago pop culture told us
We’d only have twelve years to survive
Due to the existential threat of climate change.

Today I see a new prediction
That within two years AI will go rogue 
And humanity will be extinct within the decade.

And it reminds me again, people may be wrong,
But you never know, and yet can

Dark coal of night

Contest: vibrations from a verso
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud 
Date: 24th July, 2025
Placement: third
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A dark cloak wraps the sky
Draped in deep gloom
Blind to starlight's bright glare
Fear grips each ghost
Running helter skelter
Their time of doom
Lies ahead in the night
Fear at each post!

Brevity Gloom

Crumbling slowly,  
Dilapidated walls,  
Dimming glow,  
Fading light.  

Incoherent speeches,  
Unarranged thoughts,  
Cluttered path,  
Cramped room.  

Unread journal,  
Unfinished pieces,  
Weary bodies,  
Deep slumber.  

Gloomy day,  
Veiled light,  
Hidden colours,  
Pervading darkness.  

Unwritten story,  
Masked glory.


June 7, 2025.

Watchers in the Gloom

To that shadowed city round
Come those that are sorrow bound
In their multitudes alas
Through a Terminus so vast
For a city grim enabling
Their eternal laboring 
From the parapets looking down
Cold and timid souls abound
To shed their tears in torment rife
That shed they not for all their life
And from the masses on the wall
Does that gentle misery fall
It

The Space Between Hands

The Space Between Hands

Always left alone in the corner of the room,
Often wondering if something’s missing in the gloom.
Head down, tears falling — can’t stop the flow,
Sobbing in silence, hoping no one will know.
Never reaching the end with someone in stride,
Letting go halfway, with no goodbye implied.
Then surrender comes, with the whisper, “Go ahead?”
But “why?”

Doom And Gloom

Priests of Doom and Gloom:
Fear, the seat of their feigned
power. We, meaning them, know
best: follow us and be saved
or risk eternal pain and suffering~
being forever graved! Yet some, as
I, choose the worship of one word,
Love! Avoiding Dogmatic Mercenaries,
Faux stand-ins, for the one, true,
God, all merciful, unlike the Above.

Bride and Gloom

A misogynist wed his girlfriend – the irony wasn’t lost on me!

Gloom Of Grey

I walk this walk in winter’s fog
along the path to fill each day.
Each stranger I see barely nods,
they pass by without aught to say. 
 
Against the cold I wrap my coat
while trying to ignore the sting
and thoughts of all the miles ahead
that passing through this season brings. 
 
I still recall the trees in

A rose in the gloom

In the depths of shadowed realms they dwell,  
Two minds ensnared by illusion’s spell.
Both tread the same path, their goal in sight,  
Wounded yet resolute, they journey through the night.

In despair, they find solace in each other’s embrace,  
But will life grant them grace, or leave them to chase?  
Together they

Hold Fast

"Hold fast, don't let the lines slip",
The ropes tighten around the mast of the ship,
A salty Captain grasps the wooden helm,
Waves rip on the horizon, his realm,
Quartermaster yells "Storm heading northwest by west",
White knuckled the captain shrugs as though a jest,
"Hold fast Boys! This'll be a rough ride",
The crew gazed upon the captain with pride,
From

May Wallows in Gloom

May does not know happiness at all.
I leave her sitting there, clueless, angry and small.
I help others up and it makes me happy when I am down, I say.
She scoffs at this stupidity and tells me to get out, go away.

I am depressed, and I want to die she yells, her voice a boom.
I leave

Into the Gloom

Into the gloom
by Michael R. Burch

Into the gloom, beyond the point of caring, 
past fascist rows that stare and blanch and cross
and watch us always, by the sunset's flaring, 
we watch our footprints vanish. Sponge-like moss
absorbs our heavy bootheels, till the whisper
of passing from the earth, our soft refrain, 
sounds like the hoot owl's eerie

Another Low

A Synogogue in flames, and the hate..Whats all this in
Australia mates? Live and let flourish is what I know
The older generations taught me so.' Strong work
Ethics; and time for your brother, not this 'clockwork destructive'
Well..? That belongs to others.!! The jackboot crowd clad
In hugo boss, facades of order, thin veneer some gloss..
No doubt self-haters.) Devoid

Twilight Gloom

In gardens where the gentle roses bloom,

The sun casts golden rays upon the land,

A gentle breeze dispels the twilight gloom,

And whispers secrets through the grainy sand.

The days of sorrow now begin to fade,

As morning's light reveals a brand-new day,

With hope reborn, and dreams no longer frayed,

The echoes of my heart find words to say.


In you

Replacing Gloom

This thirsting land, parched by the sun
An autumn drought, that summer spun
Without the rain, no colors found
Fall foliage fizzled, green to brown

A cheated heart, now feels shortchanged
That natures brush, has been restrained
The trees are bare, north winds have blown
Like fleeting thoughts, how time has flown

Whilst winter waits, at fall's deathbed
To lift my heart, I look

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