Gothic Poems | Examples of Gothic Poetry

Hey God, if I can’t take her, take her, My heart’s a grave, don’t wake her, wake her. Her laughter stings like glass in the veins, If she's poison, let it break her, break her. Nights fall heavy, shadows...Read the rest...

ROBERT SHERRIFF - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER He who feeds the crocodile will always get eaten last ...Read the rest...

Etch your initials into my back You can't feel the chisel, I bleed after the fact Let me hang from your ears like an olive wreath You appear like a dog, raven in your teeth The northern lights appear...Read the rest...

Streaks of pallid moonlight wash over blood-stained burnt umber leaf blight. Glistening stainless steel remains within wilting noir roses and blistered blades of grass. Sickening hands shake my repose,...Read the rest...

hryeer the spire tall and overseeing syeer across roof tops beguy the haunt of drift and of drag a ghoul’s midnight of taunt and brag hryeer the spire point at those you beckon home to the tomb of your graveyard of stone hryeer the spire thy fingerly jab beguy the...Read the rest...

Through shadowy veils of my mournful mind is the vastness of iridescent stars, their hopeful light does not comfort me. The very thought of not being in the treasure of your presence awakens the dulling grief of my heart's loneliness. The...Read the rest...

As mortal veils dissolved, our bodies merged in the ossuary's somber symphonies, two mistress awakened by the velvet-wrapped cadavers, our disinvested hands tracing syllabic patterns across the olive verdure of our skin, as maelstroms of...Read the rest...

Hey mommy I am here to play Daddy and brother are on the way To the underworld where I sent them By gutting tummies and dissecting Innards go to outwards on the floor Faces you can’t recognize anymore Low...Read the rest...

Hallow’s Eve, when spirits return And on Styx’s shores, a darkness churns Lost souls vanish to the veil Lamenting cries rise up from Hell Omen hangs high in Stygian sky Where witches watch with a wicked eye Eldritch winds whisper...Read the rest...

bescare the Broogle stalking the stair floiting hoiting loitering there the Broogle the Broogle its howl of a scare heeden oh heedon unsqueem beware the Broogle the Broogle stalking the stair befear the Broogle creepingly near gooling hooling gathering here the Broogle...Read the rest...

In the alleys of mirrors, reflections stare back with faces I've yet to covet. The cacophony of screams and whispers, a post-coital slack-jawed pause, the aftermath of endless nights and getting lost in vorpal holes...Read the rest...

the city's sick scar, fuels my descent, into this abyss, where twisted creatures writhe, in the darkness. cyclops with one eye, on the ball, three-headed puppies, sealed behind glass, strippers selling tickets to the apocalypse....Read the rest...

In the night, where shadows blend, Figures drift with silent grace, Whispers echo, a ghostly trend. Hiding secrets, lost in space. Moonlight glints on ancient stone, Flickering flames cast eerie light, ...Read the rest...

I didn't know what to say. For once in my life, I was quiet. I stood there, nails digging into my palms, it stang; Eyes too, tears reflect what they see; Tinnitus, blood rushes up above, defies gravity. I couldn't...Read the rest...

An ancient facade Of wood and flesh entwined A dream half-dream in flesh discard Something undefined Mechanical sublime Where soul intertwined A silent regime In between space n time where tears have never dried Crumbling deity Crafted by the Artist's hand Fragile is...Read the rest...