Dark Poems | Examples of Dark Poetry

Secrets, they linger inside of you like a burning ball of fire that you want to unleash into the world. Secrets, they sit as words hiding in your journal that only you read and hide from all those around you secrets, they feel like weights that pull you down to the ground and those secrets sometimes all...

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in the wasteland of broken hearts shattered mirrors line gardens disheveled and neglected where sunrays seldom enter left to their own devices they piece together a false reality that’s fraught with sadness tangled with despair and cursed with loneliness yet somehow always manage ~ to carry on Submitted on April 23, 2025 to contest A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS sponsored by CRAIG CORNISH...

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By noon, the halls throb with static, a low thrum like teeth grinding in sleep. The school, half-submerged in memory, holds its breath. Beneath a cracked skylight, a locker peels open by itself, slow as a yawn. Inside: a paper crown, soaked in ink, and a polaroid of a girl with mirrors for eyes. In the...

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A cello moans through cedar fog, low notes trembling between her teeth. Amber bowstrings tighten, vibrating against ribs— wood groans beneath the weight of sound. Resin clings to fingertips, drawn taut over hollow curves. Each bow stroke sharpens the air, Splitting migraines into cascading cacophony The final note— held breath, a whispering overtone, unraveled into stillness....

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Earthquakes of bedlam quell As tectonic plates of emotional instability cease shifting. The tears of a discarded clown, suspended in animation— Numbness overtakes. Masks slip, shattering. Shards scrape, lacerating apathetic flesh, Revealing the painted doll underneath. Remove its colourful costume; Discover marionette strings embedded within a fraying back. ...

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American madness, a fury unbound, A lost nation teeters beyond solid ground. We've crossed the stark line, flags droop low and still, The hour grows late; has reason lost its will? I walk as a stranger in this fractured land, Where those I believed would lend a saving hand Have turned, it seems, their faces from the light. This country I knew...

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A soul's etched cartography compasses spins a needle frantic above a parchment of skin. A map… Each line a river I've drowned in, blood I waded and divide each faded scar a language scarlet, unfound! My soul no longer shapes foreign land of waste annihilates behind my eyes...! I see nothing deserts exhale silent sacred sands… Hearts pulse with unheard drums an archway to oblivion...

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The map unrolls, a skin of dust, where landmarks shift like whispers lost to a gust. I trace a fracture, jagged, unfamiliar... A place where my phantom feet wandered, chillier than memory allows. A tongue they spoke is lost, A melody unheard, for a dearly paid-for cost. within the crumbling walls of an infernal keep, A cracked, blackened mirror shows a face,...

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shadows stretched from unblinking stone a sun dares trespass it's obsidian skin cold wind whispers unknowns of forgotten wars iron tears flown upon obsidian flank, rust earth exhales silence, ancient shrouds frozen breath, dust within its hollow soul pushing the rank crust pulse, violet dark strange geometries bloom in the frost upon a base, lost flock of silent wraiths, gather circles unknown speak, daggers ravens scream, unseen taste of...

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Memories of whip-lashing words steeped me deep into a roil of rancid oil my soul a weeping blistered sore my heart a gangrene amputee pus-green-memories rupture to plague me infection still oozes from core’s moaning cracks in a pale cringe I sniffled the floor my confidant a split lip half-wit tamed by the maim of his...

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She wore necklaces of coral, strings of pearls embracing her body, glinting back at the broken sunlight scattered across the sea floor. Her glassy eyes gazed up, somewhat worried, somewhat mournful, longing to leap above the waves, to sing that chorus of birds passing by. Longing for her voice to take flight, uninterrupted by ships sailing by. She wasn't born a killer; just...

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A rainy morning Open window, early morning, music of rain, cold air Beautiful atmosphere in this city, outside is still dark Still dark, oh no …, the dark sky is slowly brightening I just kept the bright dark in my mind. I love the dark Darkness! Part of my life! Please, give me your light crown! The Light Crown! The magic...

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He slips the noose around her slender neck Cloaked and masked with heavy breath He can't help but be obsessed All the dolls hangin' around - pretty little lies that make not a sound The poison of passion imagined as they are undressed. The dead in their eyes is magnificent Ivory skin - chill to win Realm of the dark, lips apart,...

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Stop breathing can i...? No i can't...whyyy donttt i.... BECAUSE ..... The day will come that i willl start slowing breathes And i will Let my heart cry for air.... let my lungs gasps for air like a man does in the deeppp darkkk ocean while drowning ..let the air leave my body like they never...

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