Gothic Poems | Examples of Gothic Poetry

“Upon Waking” Slumber has its upsides while the outside runs around like a split fowlyard, cacophonous pecking at each other and at the ground… Elsewhere, like dull background noise through the fog of dream the sound of the gamble...Read the rest...

Beneath the ghostly moon's silent gaze, Lies a forest shrouded in a spectral haze. Where twisted trees claw at the sky, And shadows dance as the winds sigh. A place where the veil is thin and frail, And spirits wander,...Read the rest...

You mangled my life for games of chance creating madness within a carney realm feasting on my thoughts tampering with my mind crushing me chest ripping my heart out stomping on it raising your brow...Read the rest...

Dead of Fall In gathering storm clouds, Fall whispers its dread, Cold tendrils coil, as life's colors shed. Once vibrant hues, now wilt and fade, As darkness creeps in, a cold, silent grave. The trees shudder from...Read the rest...

In the silent, shadowed halls of night, Where whispers dance with ghostly light, Lies the realm where death does tread, A sovereign land, where all fear to head. Cloaked in darkness, a figure so still, Its presence alone, enough to...Read the rest...

In the shadowed grove, where moonlight wanes, A raven perches, feathers inked with midnight stains. Its eyes, twin orbs of obsidian, hold secrets untold, As it croaks its mournful tale, a story of old. The raven, messenger of forgotten...Read the rest...

In the shadow's embrace, all light does yield, To the silent whispers that the dark does wield. A cloak of night, where stars dare not gleam, Where dreams twist to nightmares, and screams. Beneath the moon's pale and watchful...Read the rest...

That was Then, and This is Now In the crypt of our loves memory, we danced so free, Our romance, a cursed flame, burned with spectral glow. But secrets, whispers from the damned, you see, Now haunt this desolate...Read the rest...

Within Me Trapped within, a tempest roars, Where demons dance and anguish pours, In the haunted halls of my soul's estate, Dwells a darkness deep, where love and hate await. Restless whispers haunt my nights, As looming shadows creep by candlelight. No...Read the rest...

In the depths of our souls, where shackles crumble to dust, There lies the essence of freedom, in which we all must trust. It's not in chains unbroken, nor in walls torn down, But in the spirit soaring,...Read the rest...

In the depths of my soul, Expelling through the cold, I crave tonight an emo love. To stare into the abyss in your eyes, To torture you till you cry, To feast on your dripping blood. With one eye I see...Read the rest...

You might say, “I long to chase this path, As far as it can go, to witness, feel and join, The adventures of the wanderers. I want to mimic them, and do as they do. To...Read the rest...

Hangman, hangman, That man is being hung Stop the atrocity. Let us hang him, Since we are all guilty Unless you're sinless Accessed in a mortality? ...Read the rest...

Beneath the moon’s haunting silver sheen, Where whispers of cold night winds convene. In dreams’ labyrinth, we’ll intertwine, Amid shadows cast by the pale moon’s sign. Across the veil, our spirits entwine, In a macabre dance, your heart in mine. In...Read the rest...

Poe’s Hourglass: A Melancholic Decree Once upon a midnight dreary, As sands slip through life’s hourglass, eerie, I pondered upon my penitent past, And the regrets that will forever last. Time, that wicked thief, has stolen away, Leaving behind fragments of...Read the rest...