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.
Planche de Chair Cuite
She was not invited
She was arranged
They never wanted Jasmine
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries
while they
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Categories:
betrayal, death, gothic, grief,
My Secret Plight
Shadows shift in flickering flame
Vows made, now stained with your name
Our flame, once bold and bright
Now wanes upon this cold, stark night
I see the distance
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Categories:
dark, gothic, life, longing,
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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beautiful, deep, gothic, imagery,
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,
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,
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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angst, gothic, imagery, old,
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,
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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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,
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,
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,
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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gothic,