Metaphor Gothic Poems
These Metaphor Gothic poems are examples of Gothic poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Gothic Metaphor poems written by international poets.
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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Categories:
death, depression, gothic, imagery,
Step Stance
Dark chest
inhale your bite
exhale its shadow
wings that twisted pierce
like barbwire
cover your heart
black feet on glass
I watch my spine
still touch me
A raven cries
give...
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Categories:
angst, bird, birth, gothic,
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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Categories:
dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Categories:
dark, gothic, imagery, metaphor,
In the inferno of night
a whisper of loss
a phantom lace
a ghostly touch
fingers close, cold to taste
lingers laughter
cracked bone-dry air
the clock chimes midnight
it is backward here
in this...
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Categories:
gothic, angst, art, death, deep,
Plagued by Memories
Like an albatross enfolded around my silencing throat,
squeezing ever tighter,
asphyxiating on sins not of my own.
A scarlet letter has...
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Categories:
gothic, dark, death, extended metaphor,
Murmurs of the Damned
Silt collects at the outreaches of an ancient, murky marsh.
Twisted tendrils of white oleander form archaic symbols.
Deviant rituals, cocooned and lost...
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Categories:
dark, gothic, metaphor, poetry,
Heavy is The -Hopelessness encloses, engulfing me,
As another dismal night drifts in—
Where the only light is the afterglow of the midnight sun.
I...
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Categories:
dark, gothic, horror, metaphor,
Dance with Delusions
Dancing with delusions, sparks of hellfire
Course through my lugubrious quill pen.
Distorted words igniting fear,
Anxiety fills crevices,
Encircling, silencing,
Asphyxiating.
Walls closing in,
Compressing.
Hope fades,
Doom.
Dread
Runs cold.
Veins poisoned,
Sanity slips
Unmercifully.
The angels are...
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Categories:
death, gothic, imagery, metaphor,
IN MY SECOND HALF LIFE
Wandering in my darkness of soul
the city cries like a wounded animal
the sky wears a bruised dusk, half-forgotten.
Neon veins pulse through pavement cracks
a river...
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Categories:
gothic, allegory, america, analogy, art,
Petals of Pain
Once upon a time,
when juliet was a jewel
of psychedelic phrases ~
steering rubies of romance
to distant shores,
where sapphire seafoam
had never...
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Categories:
gothic, anger, dark, deep, emotions,
Jokers Wildfire in Heartshollow the words seem when said to a wall,
bounce back with fear and anger to keep,
papal silence for the thrall to burrow asleep,
worms of thoughts...
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Categories:
gothic, art, change, conflict, corruption,
Reverie in the Essence of Dandalionsmemories like a flower fleet with the petals
core with a honeymoon bee of wood on metal,
chroma flower bent quicksilver, reflecting light,
prism in the echo blur...
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Categories:
gothic, dark, death, deep, destiny,
Wrapped Around His Fingeropens his mouth, crimson tongue of seduction,
velvet blanket, petals by, as I delve,
a plunderer of pleasure, my lips, a ship of delight,
charting the uncharted waters...
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Categories:
gothic, dark, desire, extended metaphor,
Leather PiecemealAs 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...
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Categories:
gothic, art, beautiful, beauty, cute,