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Depression Gothic Poems

These Depression Gothic poems are examples of Gothic poems about Depression. These are the best examples of Gothic Depression poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Someone to Care


Someone to Care


I’m weary of this haunting place,
Trapped by insecurities and fears' embrace.
I yearn for them to flee,
To vanish without a trace,
For this oppression still...

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Categories: gothic, abuse, angst, conflict, dark,



Premium Member Within Me
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...

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Categories: angst, dark, depression, gothic,

Fighting Rumors That Hurt
Words encouragement
Bounce off with no meaning
Meaningless rumors
Absorbed like a dry sponge
Torments from others
Like a raging flood
Face hidden by his hoodie
He pretends to ignore
Rumors & torments
Scarred...

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Categories: gothic, 12th grade, bullying, dark,

The Forgotten Girl
There’s a loneliness to her style, it’s true.
No sense of direction or means of success.
A cautionary tale for men with no clue. 

With icy tone...

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Categories: dark, depression, gothic, loneliness,

Premium Member Simplistic
Negativity overpowers,
every feeling that manifests itself,
without one's own doing, it runs rampant.
Others, no doubt, smiling from a once-far flame put out.
Wouldn't have it any other...

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Categories: gothic, care, deep, depression, farewell,



Death N Taxes II
I have heard all your excuses 
I have listened to all your pleas
It is time to pay the pipers 
With the sweet tears of your...

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Categories: gothic, allegory, allusion, america, angel,

A Forgotten House
I see a forgotten house. 
I hear the cry of a rook. 
I feel the moonbeams in a still Brook.
I know the coming wind rising...

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Categories: gothic, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,

Somber
stark rocky cliffs
foreboding and somber 
light drifts in hollow windows
thunder drowning the screams 
as the rain beats a steady absent rhythm 
black cats run n...

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Categories: gothic, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,

Premium Member Living
Sundry torrents ask me for nonsense,
Veiled cloaks hovering in cinnabar sunsets, 
Hovering evenly in evening’s evanescence.

Nostalgia reaping neurons from presence,
So stress rapes neurons from futures,
Plans...

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Categories: gothic, age, dark, death, depression,

A Beautiful Lier
A beautiful lier
Tell me lies as butterflies die, 
That bloom into firelights, 
Your words are powerful inornate darkness 
Electric hums of an infinite instrument 
Of...

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Categories: gothic, allegory, angst, anxiety, art,

Obscura
through the lens darkly piercing the vail starkly 
past the thin veneer of the world into the next, past 

the bones of this incarnation and...

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Categories: gothic, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,

Premium Member Grant Wood: American Gothic
stoic or mourning
in a time of depression
or keepers of secrets
with a hostile divide?

why daylit drawn curtains
made from fabric she's wearing
and 'mother-in-law's tongue'
on the porch to...

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Categories: gothic, america, farm, symbolism,

Castings
casting away all pieces and parts 
of an existence full of casual talk 
of board rooms full of rage
lost bodies in burning classrooms

full of philosophy...

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Categories: gothic, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,

Desolations Boulevard Ii
The bar door is ajar only fading voices
echo into the void, from nowhere...and afar!

Here n there, trash drifts
ghosts in flickering neon 

Broken floating bloated 
dead...

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Categories: gothic, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,

Chiaroscuro
Lurching out of the door into darkness 
A street full of people, bodies pass n collide

Plunging from dark to light!

Not looking at or thinking of...

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Categories: gothic, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,


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