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Best Macabre Poems

Below are the all-time best Macabre poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of macabre poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: macabre, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Macabre Dance
silky, shapely, shameless seductress, swaying

   tantalizing, torrid, entangled twining

      languid, luxe, libidinous, luscious luncheon ~

   ...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: macabre, dance, dark,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member The Final Danse Macabre
* for maximum effect cue audio at stanza break

"For as they were in those days before the flood... so the presence of the Son of...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: macabre, bible, judgement,
Form: Haibun

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member A Macabre Dance
Fred was taking a break after working hard for weeks 
		to find a cure for awkwardness for guys like him--geeks.
		He dreamed of being suave. Oh,...

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Categories: macabre, dance, humor, romance,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Macabre Love
On Valentine's Day,
Cupid's arrow drips with blood.
What a macabre love...

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Categories: macabre, murder, valentines day,
Form: Haiku
A Danse Macabre
Along a winding country road
one autumn’s day of late,
I chanced upon an aged abode,
up a hill beyond a gate.

The house was old and quiet,
not a...

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Categories: macabre, allusion, confusion, dark, dream,
Form: Narrative



Macabre Gaiety
Take my senses away
Make me crazy,
Stir some memories
Make a story;

Oh, Love me to death,
Give me a life then kill me.

Show me the way
Then lead me...

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Categories: macabre, conflict, confusion, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Macabre Eyes
Anger tends to burn through one's soul.
Smoldering hatred causes macabre looking eyes.

Then the sane mind fades as sanity tries,
but the battle within fails to keep...

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Categories: macabre, conflict, confusion, crazy, death
Form: Lyric
Calls My Name
The orb calls to me, beckons breast beat,
blood in veins permeates, face red with heat,
as I asphyxiate, am dominated, reach climax.

Each time lustful, more powerful,...

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Categories: macabre, addiction, cute love, dark,
Form: Free verse
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: macabre, character, child, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Bear Cub and Butterfly
Blinking away the last vestiges of slumber,
the cub takes a few tentative steps,
her paws sinking into the soft,
loamy soil.
With each cautious movement,
she pauses,
her small nose...

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Categories: macabre, animal, beautiful, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Our Droplet Ripples
Sailing the seas of life, we find ourselves adrift, carried away with no compass or map to guide our way.

Our bodies, two vessels destined for...

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Categories: macabre, art, beautiful, care, deep,
Form: Free verse
Salvage A Whir
Stair carefully dear into the unknown abyssal void.

Pier was once past and now rotted and rictus, petrified.

Hue manatee threaded ten den and garnet.

Ruby teardrops and...

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Categories: macabre, dark, dog, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse
Enigmatic Perspective
Amongst the treetops a falcon finds its prey
Swooping down talons open to grasps it
Only to let it drop so it’s bones will shatter
Questions have arisen...

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Categories: macabre, bird, dark, death, extended
Form: Free verse
Pathetic Husks
I detest cowards who cower at night's darkness, 
afraid of shadows and their own demons. 
Fear is a thief that steals courage 
and leaves only...

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Categories: macabre, courage,
Form: Free verse

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