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Macabre Poems - Poems about Macabre

Macabre Poems - Examples of all types of poems about macabre to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for macabre.
Crescent Silver
Cloaked figure approached - voice of death it spoke; “Your moments come,” manifests scythe from smoke. Each step bereft your pulsates, dirge of a malodorous, bittersweet symphonies requiem of the hollow - mahogany tree; stutter/sputter/cough sanguinary pearls hell plead, crescent...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Burn The Witch
Thin lines blur into your realities Enigmas unable to be seen blind The light is shining bright into the tunnel Do you see me at the bottom of the rabbit hole? Am I a monster to you - like...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, dark,
Form: Free verse



Axiomatic Sliver
statuesque thy porcelain - so bright/or pure art thou hung as in some sacred place before a trophy to the human form; desire paramour, and thus, ‘twould sing sweet songs of grace, adieu. in museums, thy pulchritude doth abide...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, dark, extended metaphor, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Macabre Obsession
Wet blood on the floor it must have drained out of her; Forensics team blushed and instantly looked away; Hiding macabre obsession....Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, dark, emotions, horror,
Form: Tanka
Oddest Little Bird
It arrived yesterday, manifested gradual and absurd, started with the surrounding area dying first, then the original picture of a missing itty bitty bird, levitating and unmovable. More people went missing as the days converge, sure enough a new snapshot...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, crazy, dark, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme



Birthday Velleity
Two years and 8 months of sorrow, her eighth birthday's here, Memories of laughter, now a labyrinth of grief's dark passage. I failed her, leaving her to face the abyss alone, The silence is a...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, dark,
Form: Free verse
Sally Scarlet Macabre
My daughter - my love - my darkness - my only care. Oh how I miss you dear, wish you were here. But wishes cannot turn back what has been done; can they - can they bring you...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, art, child, dark, daughter,
Form: Elegy
Macabiloquent Mastery
As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heavy with the miasma of malignant...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, dark,
Form: Free verse
flock unkind murder
flock unkind murder constituency water pup hippocampus dreams ...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, animal,
Form: Senryu
dread by the river
dread by the river undefeated heavy weight devour thought and soul...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, animal,
Form: Senryu
Facades Dying Star
Bird with feathers of fire, phoenix metronome, bursts on the edges of the atmosphere. Crumbling to dust, ash and powdery bones, fore a chance never truly appears. A velleity is made at her shooting tomb, deities will not honor this...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, art, bird, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Snap
As I pivot to confront my offspring, I anticipate the sight of terror etched in their innocent eyes, a reflected horror that would mirror the abyssal darkness that has long resided within me. Instead, I am...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, dark,
Form: Free verse
Love Prompts
A rustic swirling synthetic timeless illusion, phantom birthed blossom from emanate silence, The subtle distinction, ghastly gavotte to cremation, a nuance that belies the true nature of our relationship. You think you speak to me, me, speaks to...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, dark,
Form: Free verse
Tea With A Handshake
Crossroads in the desert sands swirls, an orb whirls around as clouds gather, lightning bolt violet violently twirls, roads crack with shotgun thunder. Visage a pearl cascades as she approaches me, cut through the dirt she speaks a litany reverie, “You...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, art, conflict, crazy, dark,
Form: Free verse
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 will whisper with my dying breath...Read the rest...
Categories: macabre, beautiful, child, death, depression,
Form: Epitaph

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