Death Gothic Poems
These Death Gothic poems are examples of Gothic poems about Death. These are the best examples of Gothic Death poems written by international poets.
Carnival Nights
There was a chill in the air that night, as the taste of spun cotton candy and stale popcorn floated through the breeze. Lifeless clouds...
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dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Gravestone’s MoanI sit alone where the gravestones moan
And wicked winds wail wild
Where willows weep and shifting shadows creep
And the dark is deep and defiled
Ghostly...
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dark, death, dream, gothic,
Next, Next, Stop
Standing on a rusted platform,
I look towards the looming, tarnished steel clock,
Ticking away my final moments of existence.
Oceanic eyes swell with liquid salinity
As a hollowing...
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dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Demonic Despair
The whooshing of threadbare curtains cuts through deadening silence,
while shadows on the wall toy with a hermit's sanity.
The graze of unseen, jagged fingernails scrapes against...
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dark, death, deep, gothic,
Cold, Cold GroundThe cold, so cold ground
Binding and pulling
And holding me down
Embraced by the crypt
Confined and restrained
And life’s breath stripped
Stygian inked
Such stifling dark
And soul’s light extinct
I find...
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dark, death, gothic, grave,
Les Cirque des Morts Collab with B J FitzA cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.
Maroon and sable tents...
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dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Guy De Vere, Not So SincereAfter Lenore, by Edgar Allan Poe
Broken—yes—the golden-locked and beautiful Lenore,
Gone from us forevermore, to grace our eyes no more.
And thou, De Vere, who scornful stands...
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dark, gothic, judgement, poetry,
Plight of the WightNever again to know fresh air,
Combing worms from my matted hair.
No one remains who’d ever care —
Tied to my grave, this lonesome baire.
I must escape...
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destiny, emo, gothic, grave,
Without wallsThere's a place without walls.
For those who swear that they are floors.
and oh how they die like a flowers bloom
they lie so still in forgotten...
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gothic, death, deep, eulogy, flower,
The Ghost Inside My ChestI am the ghost inside my chest,
Unseen, unheard, yet never at rest.
I drift through halls of memory,
Where joy once lived but fled...
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death, depression, gothic, grief,
Tea“Tea”
Steam pouring forward, perhaps captured with the cold air of time
To be forgotten and lost
Blown away too quick to be tangible
Gentle momentum but me
Not so
Not...
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death, depression, gothic, imagery,
Beyond the Cemetery Gate
Withering weeping willows
shade wrought-iron gates,
creaking in the midst of a cool mid-autumn gale.
Starless, charcoal skies loom above,
as birdsong of nightingales drifts through the evening.
Coming upon...
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death, gothic, grave, grief,
Breathless in Silent Collapse
Breathless,
words like cordyceps adhere to my throat,
Choking me as the unspoken wrap around, seizing vocal cords.
Sticking fingers down, I claw to clear closing airways,
Yet the...
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dark, death, gothic, imagery,
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dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Shadows of the ValleyAs crystal glacier, suspended in the onyx air,
bleeds darkness kissed with saline sadness,
clouds tiptoe through trapped phantom winds,
dripping sinister creatures rising from the
egoistic eyes ~...
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Categories:
emotions, gothic, psychological,