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Dark Imagery Poems

These Dark Imagery poems are examples of Imagery poems about Dark. These are the best examples of Imagery Dark poems written by international poets.


Weary Soul
Yes ,yes I was a precious soul
Turned to a flower that's slowly decaying
My roots are dead and gone
Can only draw waters when I'm praying 

The...

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© Kai Riven  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imagery, deep, depression, grief, hope,



Echo in deaf ears
Lost deep in an echo chamber~
where I talked and my eardrums beat ceaselessly,
ricocheting voices of ghosts masked in agony,
tiptoeing faintly,
their feet blurred by the hallucinations...

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Categories: dark, imagery, imagination, night,

Right Art It
All at once, the soul takes flight
Rendering raw both dark and bright
Truth in touch, in wrong and right
In silent storms, I wield the night
Shaping shadows...

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Categories: imagery, art, assonance, heart, hyperbole,

Premium Member Bridging the Gap
Mary Fletcher was prime minister in olde England, like fondest memory,
Of days when the twilight stood still, with silver moon, floating on sea.

Mary Fletcher was...

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Categories: fantasy, imagery, nature, nursery

The Lake
The Lake.....

lies… still,
a glistening sheet of tin foil,
shimmering in a cold-eyed wind.

At night
the lake... lies… still;
a coffin with lid screwed light-tight.

On occasion, the moon trickles...

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© Ian Souter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imagery, fear, water,



Premium Member Point of No Return
A crescent moon dangles in the distance,
whilst meteors jet across Prussian blue heavens,
leaving trails of grey ash in their wake.
An abnormal, elongated silence creeps through...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imagery, angst, conflict, dark, gothic,

Ritual of Us
Within the twilight of the witching hour,
where dreams mingled with reality,
your tongue, a sacred blade, flicks me open—
each unspoken word unfurling from your lips
presses against...

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Categories: imagery, love, passion, romantic,

Premium Member bloodline
baptised bloodline boiling beneath belladonna brewed basins of blame...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imagery, angst, dark, deep, gothic,

Return My Tears
for : Choose a line 2
Sponsor : Joseph May
prompt: “The darkened sky stole my tears”
submission date :  27/5/25
Placed : 4th : multiple 

 ...

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Categories: imagery, allegory, allusion, character, color,

To Bloom in Thee II: Onyx Rose in Bloom
 Shall I compare thee to an onyx rose?
Too dark for day, too ripe, yet not to rot—
Thou bloom’st where sacred streamlets gently flow,
Where dryads...

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Categories: imagery, appreciation, dedication, devotion, emotions,

To Bloom in Thee I: Pagan Muse Psalm
Shall I compare thee to an onyx rose?
Thy thorns draw blood as softly as thy lips,
A bloom that drinks the night where moonlight flows,
With shadow...

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Categories: imagery, appreciation, beautiful, dedication, devotion,

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

Premium Member To Karin: A Plain Beyond the City
Coal-brown smoke smudged lightly
with hesitant fingers
into the wet grey sky at the edges,
a yellowing of dried grass
scattered with copper berries
fallen from their vines,
a leaf spinning...

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Categories: farewell, goodbye, imagery, lost

Premium Member Breathless sighs of Poetry
"I want to see thirst In the syllables, touch fire In the sound; feel through the dark. For the scream." ~ Pablo Neruda

I
taste the
pulse of...

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Categories: imagery, emotions, i love you,

Premium Member sandstone
   weather     e
                ...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, death, gothic, imagery,


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