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Life Gothic Poems

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


Premium Member Howling Wilderness
 Gnarled trees yawn under a starless sky
As a swift coldness mixes with the "howling wilderness,”
Crescendos until pure silence strangles the macabre atmosphere.
Preparing for the...

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Categories: beautiful, deep, gothic, imagery,



Premium Member the night’s hours
The day’s hours were worn down and a sudden sunset, that
resembled a master’s painted glimpse of Valhalla, was upon
us, its majesty of deepest blue, blood...

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Categories: education, gothic, humor, school,

Premium Member The Ravishing Grimness
Veil of midnight, shroud of ache,  
A hollow heart begins to wake,  
Unfed, unwhole, in shadow curled,  
Craving life within this world....

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Categories: gothic, character, dark, deep, evil,

Silent whispers
A Silent whisper hanging on the breath of the night.

Another lost soul out of control in the pale moon light.

A sliver of silver, the Autom...

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Categories: gothic, allusion, change, dance, deep,

Premium Member Time Etched in Flesh
The rustling of leaves interplays with the ocean breeze,
as traces of moonlight escape through blackout curtains hanging from steel rods.
Bolts of illumination highlight stacks of...

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Categories: angst, gothic, imagery, old,



Premium Member The sharp snap of branches masked the bark of distant dogs
A stolen life. A split-second decision.
Disorganised thoughts, jumbled—
Tangled around an anaesthetised cortex.
Clocks mockingly ticking,
Ticking down inevitability,
As a lone fly buzzes relentlessly around my head.

Swatting at...

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Categories: dark, deep, gothic, horror,

Premium Member The Prismatic Self
"A silenced tongue weighs heavy against the soul," quote by poet.

 I sit amongst a single light, 
light illuminating a hand-built oaken desk,
desk with pictures...

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Categories: angst, deep, emotions, gothic,

Abandon All Grace Here
I wore my sins like velvet lace,
Then set your garden all ablaze.
I never once said I was kind--
I only promised not to mind.

The chandelier you...

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Categories: betrayal, fire, gothic,

Premium Member The Body Possession Horror
It started as a whisper, faint,  
A voice that slithered through my brain.  
Not my own, but just as clear,  
A presence...

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Categories: gothic, confusion, dark, deep, evil,

Premium Member Melancholy Atomic 1945 , Salvador Dali
The sky is a Luciferian estuary 
rolling and roaring in crimson flames, 
a twisted design of detonated debris,
like splitting sighs
from internal implosions,
raining fragments of the...

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Categories: dark, emotions, gothic,

Premium Member Living Testament
The scriptures whisper of silent tombs/
Of wisdom buried, lost in gloom/
But I rise, carved from the night/
A witness to the truths concealed in blight/

They say...

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Categories: gothic, culture, dark, death, deep,

How fragile we are
I sit and watch the twilight 
In vaulted heaven burns brittle stars
I feel the rush of wind 
It cares the ash of pine 
I feel...

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Categories: gothic, art, dark, death, dream,

Out, Out, Brief Candle
(Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5)

Out, out, brief candle—flicker, fade,
A tiny light in life’s grand parade.
For life’s but a wisp, a fleeting flare,
A moment’s breath in...

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Categories: gothic,

Premium Member Silently Sweeping Thoughts
I stay situated 
    upon an antique
dusty leather chair
as the scent 
   of incense invokes snippets  
of half-written pages...

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Categories: dark, death, emotions, gothic,

Premium Member Viridescent Vines
a crisp chill fills the early morning air  
      dew drops periodically appear on the 
   ...

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Categories: autumn, gothic, imagery, poverty,


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