Post Apocalyptic Poems | Examples


Premium Member Transience

Everything is temporary. Maybe it's not even real...
Life, this life...
I think you know, we have already been here.
Post-apocalyptic existence.
Utopian dreams.
Uncertainty at the surface,
the shift in between.
Contemplation and choice.
Birth.
Life.
Death.
They are all one and the same,
sharing the same knife,
to carve out the same name.

Beneath the Shattered Sky

In a world filled with despair 
The smell of fear fills the air 
The world we once knew is far gone 
Debris from the blast litters every lawn 
They forced us all underground 
Advising us not to make a sound

We once lived the days through 
But they wanted something new 
A world with no war 
That of which they swore 
The world we lived in would soon be great 
We thought of this not knowing our fate

We walk along the only street 
The others are obsolete 
The bunker collapsed in on itself 
As if it was a broken shelf 
With nothing left to give 
We ask ourselves if we should still live
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Brexit

Breeding and for that matter breathing has taken over the spluttering world

Retroviruses conduct symphonies for nostalgic post-apocalyptic mindfulness

Entropic madness gathers its pace as fast as loo roles escape from the shops

Xenophobia implicates the roots of all epic evil as derived from foreign strands

Itinerant chaos does not adhere to manmade boundaries as the clock runs down

To be fair though Julian Assange can surely be blamed as a harbinger of isolation


29th March 2020
Form: Acrostic

Storm

Storm


   Black and gray mountains devour the sun
   churning and yearning to unleash their rage
   deafening roars bring forth their blinding fire
   with a volcanic burst of hail and rain
   as if they're striving for maximum pain
   deliver their deluge onto the land
   like a post-apocalyptic hellscape
   was always their diabolical plan
   that, along with the total destruction of man
Form: Rhyme

Darkless

I'm in love with my post apocalyptic silence
I'm in lust with my darkless absence of violence
My island 
My sun
Mind on the run

Nightfall is storm before the calm
The roof crumbles
The outside screams blood
My thoughts mutilated
So kiss my bleeding mind
And beat my stopping heart

Hold my love till daylight comes
For I never discovered you through the dark
You hit hard, you rape my heart
Till softly we do part.


Melmoth the Wanderer

they say i'm mad cynical ,  im down for the pentacle. all i see is you me, spiritually we've come to be .. different in so many aspects, that i expect, that you regret, you  had the stones to make the step, that you now accept .. an eagles eye drops deep inside, and if you follow the tunnel ,you'll find your mind. nestled next to your sanity,insanity, post apocalyptic visions of the cryptic mystics, please regress they ramble there jaws as you battle your cause... they message your arteries ,as you fight to breath, taking everything ,take could, would, and should be.
Form: ABC

Console Reality

Through putrid post apocalyptic wastelands
I wander gun in hand 
prepared to annihilate those critters 
who dare to cross my path
then I press the pause button 
and sip from my china cup
thankful that life isn't like 
my console reality 
whilst I flick through the channels 
on my flatscreen TV 
Game break over
back to fighting bad guys
in a pixelated land
I let off a round
a-tat-a-tat-tat
It kind of looks familiar
like an item on the news
but I know my mind's just playing tricks
Real life is bliss

Is This Poetry

is this poetry?

ee cummings

darnit

they had time

to think of metaphor, allegory, imagery, rhythm, rhyme meter

I don't have time

this is poetry

of the apocalypse

poetry of the end

I don't have the time

lost at the end of time

at the end of property

wherefore art thou time

wherefore art tho anything

everything is going

therefore time to begin anew

time to wipe this slate clean

get that eraser

wipe wipe wipe wipe

dust of corruption

choking us

choking thoughts

choking creativity

choking emotions

transferring to rage

ptsd syndrome

afraid to leave my house

afraid to go to the store

afraid to go to the gym

21st century

post-apocalyptic

insanity.

What Is Love

am tryna formulate some lines
Since you told me that u aint gonna be mine,
You got my heart with a feelings that i cannot 
define,
Love and live is all i have i in my mind
 
I love u do i need to say this in vernacular
Bany it hurts to separate doubles and make 
em singular
I love u since u were a morula
Look now u hit me hard and made me look 
like a dracular.

Baby u make me speak in mixed up tenses
Making me act as if am out of my senses
Our love now seems like a post apocalyptic 
horror flcik
Form: ABC

Post-Apocalyptic Blues

Has Granny gone batty?
She tells us of love,
Of flowers and trees  
And a thing called a ‘dove’.
But none of these things exist now today,
Since the world heated up
And the lakes turned to clay.
The deserts are barren
Around our estate,
It’s a fight for survival,
A fight against fate.
We hear England’s legends
Of a pleasant green land
But the truth that we’ve known
Is just mountains of sand.
It is said it was greed,
A disdain for the Earth,
That robbed this poor planet
Of its greatness and worth.
We hear these old stories
And yearn for those days
Where living was easy
Beneath the Sun’s rays,
We starve now and bake
If we venture outside
And they claim again oxygen
Prices will rise.
We fight for survival,
We fight just to live,
We fight and we fight,
There’s no love left to give.
Perhaps Granny is batty
With the things that she tells
Through a longing for legend
Of fresh water wells.
Or perhaps it’s a memory
That she holds so dear;
Yes – I see now the truth
In her lone dusty tear.
Form: Rhyme

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