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Dark Verse Poems

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


Traversing this realm of consciousness, where the sun is a stranger
Traversing this realm of consciousness, where the sun is a stranger,
Some stuff their ears with gales of light, fleeing from themselves,
But there are souls whose...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, fantasy,



In the crucible of time, where the iron of human will is melted
In the crucible of time, where the iron of human will is melted,
Lords of armies forge their crowns from flames that build mirages.
They invoke the...

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Categories: verse, fantasy,

It wasn't the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could live with
It wasn't the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could live with,
A canvas woven from moonbeams and delicate shadows on the water's face.
They were...

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Categories: verse, fantasy,

Premium Member Behind the wall
The coffee shops stand by the canal
Beautiful scenery and in flannels
All spruced up to put on the show
How wealthy they are we don't need to...

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Categories: verse, analogy, discrimination, drink, environment,

Diagnosis
Diagnosis

I am sick, I forgot my life, I haven’t that, never been
Never been, it’s strange, is life evil? No. Psychology
Psychology, evil science, I don’t like...

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Categories: verse, life, love,



Premium Member 1st Camp Out

     Winding up the sheet,
     I just Couldn't sleep!
     Dragged the sheet outside,
...

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© Kim Stone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, 1st grade, 2nd grade,

As My Body Rots
As I succumb to the wounds you've inflicted
gasping for air, for life,
eyes bloodshot, cheeks wet,
Will you love me then?

My cold, bloodied body will lay lifeless...

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© Piotr Vou  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, conflict, dark, heartbreak, love,

In the zodiac of poets with furrowed brows, born from the shadow of the world devouring the moment
In the zodiac of poets with furrowed brows, born from the shadow of the world devouring the moment,
I am tired of narrow verses, of word...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: verse, fantasy,

In times to come, heavy as steel that freezes stories yet untold
In times to come, heavy as steel that freezes stories yet untold,
The sky wraps itself in ash of thoughts yearning to be confined.
Silent streets converge...

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Categories: verse, fantasy,

In the pocket of the evening, language floats a cosmic virus
In the pocket of the evening, language floats – a cosmic virus,
Its seeds unknown, brought on the wings of silent comets.
It clings to people as...

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Categories: verse, fantasy,

We are fleeting apparitions, stepping between the threads of reality and the shadow
We are fleeting apparitions, stepping between the threads of reality and the shadow,
Children of a twilight that never ceases, neither white nor black, but both.
Phantoms...

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Categories: verse, fantasy,

The Sea in my room
As a child,
with my Nanna,
making the bed -
waves of sheet
crash,
underneath is cool -
dark,
need to breathe,
roll on the carpet-beach,
watch the white-surge 
flapping, snapping, falling
up and down
up...

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Categories: verse, child, grandmother,

Premium Member Golden Faith


Listen to the songs, falling from the skies,
In brilliant azure notes, soft
And hopeful, honest as the subtle hints
Indigo gentling tears and spirits,
Leaving a trail of...

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Categories: verse, blessing, christian, faith, hope,

Premium Member Simply Beyond Help
Zounds!
longing for a 
merciful descent into 
the terminal ground 
where smoky eyes
semi-watch
streams of
semi-(dis)information
exhaled from
smoking brains
on a mission
to search &
deconstruct

ticking clocks
taunt
timely bombs
lost in 
purple blobs
of
orange haze
awaiting
purging...

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Categories: verse, dark, nonsense, surreal, word

Hills And Crosses
Hills & Crosses

I hung myself on a cross
To atone for my works
An attempt on my soul 
To rid him off of his unwholesomeness 
To cut...

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Categories: verse, addiction, bible, desire, religion,


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