Dark Poems by Top Critiquers
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Evil poetry and morbid poems about death and horror
Poems written by Top Critiquers
fianaturie8
Fia Naturie
Fia Naturie
Poem Published
5th Apr 2025 3:43pm
5th Apr 2025 3:43pm
Stop Smiling
I
Am
A
Wreck
Bruised and discarded like those old ships
You found me and now what?
Why do you smile?
Everyone passes me by and not give a damn
Not …A…Damn!
You smiled at me
You reached for me and…and
What am I supposed to do?
You don’t understand
I’m a wreck
Your light hurts me
Stop! Smiling!
“Beautiful”
Me?
Beautiful?
Does he not see the bruises I carry?
This eye is black and blue
I did not fall
STOP..SMILING!
It’s starting to rain now
I can feel it...
Am
A
Wreck
Bruised and discarded like those old ships
You found me and now what?
Why do you smile?
Everyone passes me by and not give a damn
Not …A…Damn!
You smiled at me
You reached for me and…and
What am I supposed to do?
You don’t understand
I’m a wreck
Your light hurts me
Stop! Smiling!
“Beautiful”
Me?
Beautiful?
Does he not see the bruises I carry?
This eye is black and blue
I did not fall
STOP..SMILING!
It’s starting to rain now
I can feel it...
#anxiety
#dark
#fear #sadness
#fear #sadness
156 reads
15 Comments
Styxian
Poem Published
4th Jan 2023 3:28am
4th Jan 2023 3:28am
When You're Small
#dark
#confusion
#denial
618 reads
39 Comments
Cipher_O
Poem Published
Today 10:36pm
Today 10:36pm
UltraviolenceOrgy: The Sacrament (Deleted Scene)
Cipher Productions Studios, Hollywood
I
“Alright. Talk at ya babe.”
Pablo says, hanging up the
phone.
“I’ve got some bad news
and I’ve got some good
news. The bad news is
our director is working
on a different project. The
good news is that I am
going to direct…
The Star of Splay scene.”
II
“The Star of Splay?” Kristina
looks through the heavily
redacted script for the scene.
“I...I… I can’t find the scene
but I don’t know if I like the ...
I
“Alright. Talk at ya babe.”
Pablo says, hanging up the
phone.
“I’ve got some bad news
and I’ve got some good
news. The bad news is
our director is working
on a different project. The
good news is that I am
going to direct…
The Star of Splay scene.”
II
“The Star of Splay?” Kristina
looks through the heavily
redacted script for the scene.
“I...I… I can’t find the scene
but I don’t know if I like the ...
#shadows
27 reads
0 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
23rd Apr 2025 10:49pm
23rd Apr 2025 10:49pm
Union 404
There once was a vast republic
that for its britches got too big
with a minority so thick...
they voted for a Jersey pig.
That pig was a demented dope
with no way that we couldn't tell
except if you abandoned hope
or got your news straight outta hell.
Dead, at two hundred and fifty,
which is what Krasnov meant to see
with MAGA being so unthrifty
in disregard for liberty!
Some ships of state, instead, are planes,
too afflicted by a gremlin
spiking headway in falsehood chains...
from a sadist in the...
that for its britches got too big
with a minority so thick...
they voted for a Jersey pig.
That pig was a demented dope
with no way that we couldn't tell
except if you abandoned hope
or got your news straight outta hell.
Dead, at two hundred and fifty,
which is what Krasnov meant to see
with MAGA being so unthrifty
in disregard for liberty!
Some ships of state, instead, are planes,
too afflicted by a gremlin
spiking headway in falsehood chains...
from a sadist in the...
#corruption
#deception
#ignorance #war
#ignorance #war
137 reads
4 Comments
TheOralizer
Poem Published
5th Jan 2021 9:35pm
5th Jan 2021 9:35pm
10 COMMANDMENTS FOR B&D PARTICIPANTS
I had heard of the
10 Commandments
given by Moses,
But never the
10 Commandments
for B&D practitioners,
which was on a card
given to me by a lady dressed
in black with heavy makeup
I met while browsing in
the B&D section in a bookstore.
The list started with the
advice that abuse, harm,
or physical injury must never
be the objective or tolerated.
The message was addressed
to a Dom or potential Dom.
THE LIST:
1. Thou shall not cause actual injury
2. Thou shall pre-agree to the limits ...
10 Commandments
given by Moses,
But never the
10 Commandments
for B&D practitioners,
which was on a card
given to me by a lady dressed
in black with heavy makeup
I met while browsing in
the B&D section in a bookstore.
The list started with the
advice that abuse, harm,
or physical injury must never
be the objective or tolerated.
The message was addressed
to a Dom or potential Dom.
THE LIST:
1. Thou shall not cause actual injury
2. Thou shall pre-agree to the limits ...
#lust
#sex
#erotic
#BDSM
#passion
580 reads
9 Comments
runningturtle87
Poem Published
21st Aug 2013 2:28pm
21st Aug 2013 2:28pm
Radio Silence
(After Robert Browning)
During the day
racing from one conviction
to the next
with your texting
your blogging
your twittering
I ask who you are talking to
and you say no one
but all this typing is going on
that's talking to someone
and you say you are tweeting.
It is fucking amazing
how we can parse things out
so that it is not it
but rather it
of a very specific
other variety of it
but not exactly
since it here
is not it there
and so the omission
is permissible.
Well,...
During the day
racing from one conviction
to the next
with your texting
your blogging
your twittering
I ask who you are talking to
and you say no one
but all this typing is going on
that's talking to someone
and you say you are tweeting.
It is fucking amazing
how we can parse things out
so that it is not it
but rather it
of a very specific
other variety of it
but not exactly
since it here
is not it there
and so the omission
is permissible.
Well,...
922 reads
6 Comments
Bluevelvete
Poem Published
6th Sep 2023 12:41pm
6th Sep 2023 12:41pm
The stench of reality and a reminder to wipe up the blood
caught off guard
lamed by bold blistering sting
wretched dire ache
comes in dreaded waves
fuck, how i still burn
still need you
need the tangled longing
hate myself for
craving it
like I do
tears well up
in a hot slide down
red puffy
pissed off cheeks
swinging by nightmarish tenterhooks
reason sways to and fro
speckling me in blood-loss
viscera in bold stark darkness
it's so easy to forget
how we once thrived in pools of light ...
lamed by bold blistering sting
wretched dire ache
comes in dreaded waves
fuck, how i still burn
still need you
need the tangled longing
hate myself for
craving it
like I do
tears well up
in a hot slide down
red puffy
pissed off cheeks
swinging by nightmarish tenterhooks
reason sways to and fro
speckling me in blood-loss
viscera in bold stark darkness
it's so easy to forget
how we once thrived in pools of light ...
#TruthOfLife
#despair
#suffering #dark
#suffering #dark
670 reads
33 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
30th Apr 2025 4:03pm
30th Apr 2025 4:03pm
Not to Kill the Pianist's Mockingbird (A Sonnet in Dark Tones)
In somber hues, the dusk begins to play,
a dirge on keys of silence, sharp and deep.
A mockingbird croons echoes of decay,
its solemn songs where wounded shadows creep.
The pianist sits as a phantom of the stage.
Fingers like ghosts upon a weathered score.
Each note, a tale of grief—a mourning cage.
A hymn for lives that fate shall keep no more.
Yet still, the strings of night refuse to break,
their mournful whispers thread through midnight’s veil.
The mockingbird and pianist awake...
A dance of death where sorrow...
a dirge on keys of silence, sharp and deep.
A mockingbird croons echoes of decay,
its solemn songs where wounded shadows creep.
The pianist sits as a phantom of the stage.
Fingers like ghosts upon a weathered score.
Each note, a tale of grief—a mourning cage.
A hymn for lives that fate shall keep no more.
Yet still, the strings of night refuse to break,
their mournful whispers thread through midnight’s veil.
The mockingbird and pianist awake...
A dance of death where sorrow...
#birds
#dance
#magic
#music
#mystery
78 reads
4 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
4th May 2025 9:27pm
4th May 2025 9:27pm
Always Stay Happy In A Divine State Of Mind
Devoid of festering and lamented bitter sorrows
Doves soaring in search higher grounds burying turmoil of past tomorrows
The covenant of rainbow between God and man
None holier unto humanity from where we stand
He who seeks shall find peace, within their reach
For the masqueraded, acrimony, rancor, discontent shall never lash the meek
Time is not assured by the human’s mind
Life is the blink of an eye in God’s time
Turn away and...
Doves soaring in search higher grounds burying turmoil of past tomorrows
The covenant of rainbow between God and man
None holier unto humanity from where we stand
He who seeks shall find peace, within their reach
For the masqueraded, acrimony, rancor, discontent shall never lash the meek
Time is not assured by the human’s mind
Life is the blink of an eye in God’s time
Turn away and...
#heaven
#sun
#water
#peace
#moon
162 reads
buddhakitty
Poem Published
3rd Jan 2020 5:12am
3rd Jan 2020 5:12am
pale kisses (with respect to Louise Gluck)
in this season,
season of decay.
when all the leaves
have fallen,
fallen all away.
cold blue death will
come,
come to pull life away.
love will be forever gone,
gone with the pale kiss
of death to stay.
season of decay.
when all the leaves
have fallen,
fallen all away.
cold blue death will
come,
come to pull life away.
love will be forever gone,
gone with the pale kiss
of death to stay.
#heartbroken
#bittersweet
637 reads
16 Comments
Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
6th Mar 2025 4:36am
6th Mar 2025 4:36am
two truths, one lie
Tell me a secret
make it a lie
you know I'll still love you
when it all falls apart
You linger in my veins
like the last high never faded
never mind that I'm so low, so low
you're the breath I never asked for
keeping me alive
when I'd rather be painting daisies
from the other side
Tell me a secret
make it a lie
sharpen the knife
then twist it
as you slide it in slow
make me believe
you can stop anytime you like
while I plead
is it over...
make it a lie
you know I'll still love you
when it all falls apart
You linger in my veins
like the last high never faded
never mind that I'm so low, so low
you're the breath I never asked for
keeping me alive
when I'd rather be painting daisies
from the other side
Tell me a secret
make it a lie
sharpen the knife
then twist it
as you slide it in slow
make me believe
you can stop anytime you like
while I plead
is it over...
#anger
#hurt
#love
191 reads
4 Comments
SonderNinja
BenjaminEC
BenjaminEC
Poem Published
28th Mar 2025 10:28pm
28th Mar 2025 10:28pm
Diamond (Cut) In the Rough
Slithered invitation
with diamond-cut
vendettas.
Sellswords carved
carnival sideshow
smiles
darting buttress
eyes commence
a lust for fire
sang the bird:
conjecture cockfights
a finer company~
requisite quisling
dangles headfirst~
boiling leather
weathers
a tomb of
elbow room.
Laugh & dream
of head & hole.
...
#dark
#FreeVerse
#violence
157 reads
0 Comments
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