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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.


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,



Premium Member 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,

Premium Member 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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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, gothic, metaphor, poetry,

Premium Member 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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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, gothic, horror, metaphor,

Premium Member 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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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
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 Hearts
hollow 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 Dandalions
memories 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 Finger
opens 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 Piecemeal
As 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,

Makabre Marionetta
Hey mommy I am here to play
Daddy and brother are on the way 
To the underworld where I sent them
By gutting tummies and dissecting 
Innards...

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Categories: gothic, character, child, conflict, dark,

B-cup Collecting Tips on the Southeast
the city's sick scar, fuels my descent, into this abyss, where twisted creatures writhe, in the darkness. cyclops with one eye, on the ball, three-headed...

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Categories: gothic, art, corruption, courage, crazy,

Star
I didn't know what to say.

For once in my life, I was quiet.

I stood there, nails digging into my palms, it stang;

Eyes too, tears reflect...

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© Kama Elwal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gothic, angst, conflict, dark, extended

In the Realm of Silver Linings
" Perhaps, life is just a disaster
wrapped in fairy-glow fragments ~
shimmering with stars of death... "

O' beloved moment of time,
take me where I belong,
in the...

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Categories: butterfly, dark, death, gothic,


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