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Mother Gothic Poems

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

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,

Late Daughter

Poem that is written with each gentle kiss

Music I play twitching the corners of my lips

Art brush paint four magnum opus till death

Final one I...

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Categories: gothic, beautiful, child, death, depression,

No One Is Looking

Cadence lowers its tenebrous tempo
Dulcet to a morose Memento Mori-bund
Lachrymose ribbon garnet fountain
Ruby rivulets in wine glass Chardonnay
Bubble floats to pop
Silence yet I sway

Miasma tang...

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Categories: gothic, art, beautiful, beauty, class,

She Deserves Respect

momma is tired of these kids
never clean 
just do what they wish
that’s why I gave them scarlet necklaces
yes baby
adulterer is already home hehe
not going through...

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Categories: gothic, appreciation, art, betrayal, crazy,

The Domino Effect

The Domino Effect 
The sky fell mercilessly and tornadoes fury was landed The earth caved where seeds of new crop a farmer had planted 
In...

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Categories: angst, betrayal, gothic, heartbroken,

Lost Track of a Ginger Snap

Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun.

Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone,
something must be wrong,
I ask she looked at...

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Categories: gothic, animal, dark, death, dog,

Too Close To The Edge

The world tilts into a crescendo,
manifesting a lure of viral plague,
pervasive and fangs virulent,
sickening coquettish carnivorous creatures.

Why bother with their musings,
why care?

A question that reminds...

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Categories: gothic, child, dark, death, deep,

Family Reunion

Breast beat for her I doubt you fathom crude
Understand thus gravitas of thy actions true
This must entrust you knot the thread bear
Bang thy drum roll...

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Categories: gothic, crazy, dark, daughter, death,

In The Garden

If you look
            You will find me

       ...

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Categories: dark, garden, gothic, grave,

Crimson Bouquet

In spectral glow moon's pallor, 
country home towered ominously,
fortress bearing silent the tragedy,
ensnared within its stone.
Her footfalls echoed in the hollow foyer,
mournful dirge in the...

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Categories: dark, gothic, grief, horror,

Fear Ye Not the Bloody Monsters Unholy Ball

Fear Ye Not The Bloody Monsters Unholy Ball

Dance gaily under the sweetest sublime moonlight
While Autumn its too many dead-falling leaves sheds
Hold not onto nasty tales...

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Categories: dark, evil, fantasy, gothic,

Lady Macandroid

Half flesh, half steel, sinews and twined wire,
Begotten in the heat of half-love, tempered
By hatred and the axe, fathered by one
Who killed her mother, the...

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Categories: angst, gothic,

Mother's Stories

I warned you about Mother telling her stories.
I warned you,
but you wouldn’t listen.

I warned you about the magic
of golem and djinn,
about lilac walks 
and mysterious...

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Categories: books, childhood, fantasy, gothic,

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,

Posthuman

What tis' the work of man 
to leave a testament 
to his grand plans, 
the usurper of the throne 
eternal is, man!

The after image 
of...

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Categories: gothic, abortion, allegory, allusion, analogy,