Popular Dark Poems
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Evil poetry and morbid poems about death and horror
Popular poems, listed in order of their popularity this month.
DanielChristensen
Poem Published
24th Mar 2020 2:42am
24th Mar 2020 2:42am
Is This Prescience
And all the mud brick houses have
Staring eyes,
Blinking in the haze of their mugwort
Billows,
Wafted with some
Religious pomp,
Toward the four
Corners
And the wind heralds a thousand
Clinical
Suicides
An hour,
Rounded up or down,
To a pleasingly
Symmetrical
Number
And the tattered flesh flag
Flails a prescription drug
Infomercial at the
Tidal arm,
Images of families
And foliage
And a pleasantly vapid
Disclaimer of
Collateral ...
Staring eyes,
Blinking in the haze of their mugwort
Billows,
Wafted with some
Religious pomp,
Toward the four
Corners
And the wind heralds a thousand
Clinical
Suicides
An hour,
Rounded up or down,
To a pleasingly
Symmetrical
Number
And the tattered flesh flag
Flails a prescription drug
Infomercial at the
Tidal arm,
Images of families
And foliage
And a pleasantly vapid
Disclaimer of
Collateral ...
#death
#humankind
#consumerism
#nightmares
#fear
105 reads
18 Comments
calamitygin
Poem Published
13th Mar 2020 6:10pm
13th Mar 2020 6:10pm
Lullaby
My weeping holds no mo(u)rning
In my arms I gently rock
Not yet....
My bosom overflows with pearled loathing Does fate not carry regret?
I have buried the dawn in your shadow
Shoveled in pale greys so blue
In this ever-sunset I will not see mortality
Now shoosh and suckle my sweet
Was you
In my arms I gently rock
Not yet....
My bosom overflows with pearled loathing Does fate not carry regret?
I have buried the dawn in your shadow
Shoveled in pale greys so blue
In this ever-sunset I will not see mortality
Now shoosh and suckle my sweet
Was you
#death
116 reads
34 Comments
calamitygin
Poem Published
10th Mar 2020 4:03pm
10th Mar 2020 4:03pm
My Queen of Pain
There lives a thing in me
its proportions both great and small
as it shifts intent
yo-yoing menace towards safe grey convolutions
swaying a nauseating tilt towards verge
I catch myself
with sweaty grip on my being
fighting like panting dogs
a bent-knee posture
…..my good will bowing to the un-willing
and I know this thing would be my Queen of Pain
her sovereign urge monstrous
would seek to rule whole my rationale
leaving ignorance in tyrannies wake
there is bliss there...
its proportions both great and small
as it shifts intent
yo-yoing menace towards safe grey convolutions
swaying a nauseating tilt towards verge
I catch myself
with sweaty grip on my being
fighting like panting dogs
a bent-knee posture
…..my good will bowing to the un-willing
and I know this thing would be my Queen of Pain
her sovereign urge monstrous
would seek to rule whole my rationale
leaving ignorance in tyrannies wake
there is bliss there...
#fear
112 reads
26 Comments
calamitygin
Poem Published
5th Mar 2020 5:34pm
5th Mar 2020 5:34pm
Dilineation
fear me
in my whisper
as shadows breed where stillness lies
my nature's footing
wears a concrete soul
but when shed to tiptoe....
find demons curling in my flesh
find legion there
and their loyal stroking
swelling the curve
and up tip of my breast
my allure smooths
slinks in poseur
with an interlopers gloved hands
will writhe around you and reach
to pluck ennui like dark berry
and let the juices drip
over the...
in my whisper
as shadows breed where stillness lies
my nature's footing
wears a concrete soul
but when shed to tiptoe....
find demons curling in my flesh
find legion there
and their loyal stroking
swelling the curve
and up tip of my breast
my allure smooths
slinks in poseur
with an interlopers gloved hands
will writhe around you and reach
to pluck ennui like dark berry
and let the juices drip
over the...
#identity
#shadows
#apathy
95 reads
28 Comments
Valeriya
Poem Published
18th Mar 2020 6:31am
18th Mar 2020 6:31am
You
Your distance is maddening
your mystery, compels me
to hunger
With brevity you tease me
, with what I cannot
have.
You sparked the flame that
smolders within your words
are tight
As they fall from your mind
then smoothly drop into mine
My thoughts surround
someone I see
Although
I see no one at all
your mystery, compels me
to hunger
With brevity you tease me
, with what I cannot
have.
You sparked the flame that
smolders within your words
are tight
As they fall from your mind
then smoothly drop into mine
My thoughts surround
someone I see
Although
I see no one at all
#relationships
95 reads
12 Comments
I_IS_ME
Poem Published
24th Mar 2020 3:09pm
24th Mar 2020 3:09pm
Imitations
I screamed, "I, I've lived this shit so many times before"
Do you really care to see how much pain and misery it took to create I Is Me
I fucking prayed that you never had to know
I cried at Hell's gates until it opened up and accepted me
Hell as I told you before, "you don't wanna go there"
Horns emerged, balding replacing beautiful locks of hair
The eyes of innocence replaced with a glowing stare
A heart raging with emotion, turn frigid without care
Hell breastfed me on the milk of darkness
A many would had feared her frigid...
Do you really care to see how much pain and misery it took to create I Is Me
I fucking prayed that you never had to know
I cried at Hell's gates until it opened up and accepted me
Hell as I told you before, "you don't wanna go there"
Horns emerged, balding replacing beautiful locks of hair
The eyes of innocence replaced with a glowing stare
A heart raging with emotion, turn frigid without care
Hell breastfed me on the milk of darkness
A many would had feared her frigid...
#relationships
#abuse
#hell
109 reads
20 Comments
calamitygin
Poem Published
Yesterday 6:13am
Yesterday 6:13am
Out of the Sacred
Oh see her
And witness
the dying of an Angel
Her face
Torn from it's shadows
Grimacing and angular
Scowling woman's perversions
Like alabaster deity
While whisps of her veil
Singe and rise
Carried off and into
Some cold
and unholy current
And her ashes
They obscure my sun
And they darken the sanctuary
Of my horizon
She passes
And it would not be quick
Then tossing great beauty to the floor
An...
And witness
the dying of an Angel
Her face
Torn from it's shadows
Grimacing and angular
Scowling woman's perversions
Like alabaster deity
While whisps of her veil
Singe and rise
Carried off and into
Some cold
and unholy current
And her ashes
They obscure my sun
And they darken the sanctuary
Of my horizon
She passes
And it would not be quick
Then tossing great beauty to the floor
An...
#faith
#YehudaAmichai
72 reads
22 Comments
crowfly
Poem Published
28th Feb 2020 8:35pm
28th Feb 2020 8:35pm
Dawn
I sit here and watch the tide
Along the midnight beach
I feel the longing deep inside
But death seems out of reach
My mind is cloaked in darkened shades
The shadows of my soul
My lust for life too quickly fades
As I watch the waters roll
But the dawn finally appears
And my dismal thoughts take flight
No more dread and hidden fears
Gone with the morning light.
Along the midnight beach
I feel the longing deep inside
But death seems out of reach
My mind is cloaked in darkened shades
The shadows of my soul
My lust for life too quickly fades
As I watch the waters roll
But the dawn finally appears
And my dismal thoughts take flight
No more dread and hidden fears
Gone with the morning light.
#depression
88 reads
13 Comments
Sky_dancer
Poem Published
23rd Mar 2020 10:06am
23rd Mar 2020 10:06am
Almost Harmless
Who wears the crown that brings them down
They see not light but hallowed ground
into the distance, a ring of blue
with no beginning, no end in view
I speak to you, to all who see
there is no death, just life anew
for mind is formless, endless streams
illuminated by the past, it seems
The futures serves to warn us now
be careful who you give your crown
do not be fooled by guilded fruit
though glitter hides the filthy truth
I call to you, all those who hear
do not run into smiles and arms
their poison lies...
They see not light but hallowed ground
into the distance, a ring of blue
with no beginning, no end in view
I speak to you, to all who see
there is no death, just life anew
for mind is formless, endless streams
illuminated by the past, it seems
The futures serves to warn us now
be careful who you give your crown
do not be fooled by guilded fruit
though glitter hides the filthy truth
I call to you, all those who hear
do not run into smiles and arms
their poison lies...
#power
91 reads
8 Comments
souladareatease
Poem Published
2nd Mar 2020 4:42pm
2nd Mar 2020 4:42pm
Headcase 9
Life was fucked black and charred
dangled remains ripped from the carcass
there was no herald, only despair
plague of darkness slowly settles in
peeling skin raked by bubbled flesh
melted viscous streams to floor--screaming
nightmares die hard, awaiting swung blade
a doorway to cob-web and staircase
the bone holding cup runneth over
we are the receivers cast down in shadow shunned by light
as dark shards pierce the beating heart
squeeze box melodies whine with last gasps
awaiting our train to hell and flame as...
dangled remains ripped from the carcass
there was no herald, only despair
plague of darkness slowly settles in
peeling skin raked by bubbled flesh
melted viscous streams to floor--screaming
nightmares die hard, awaiting swung blade
a doorway to cob-web and staircase
the bone holding cup runneth over
we are the receivers cast down in shadow shunned by light
as dark shards pierce the beating heart
squeeze box melodies whine with last gasps
awaiting our train to hell and flame as...
#monsters
#ghosts
118 reads
19 Comments
Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
jade tiger
Poem Published
10th Mar 2020 9:17am
10th Mar 2020 9:17am
C O L O U R S
( a visual verse )
Draft hooves cut the sod, divots fly
Into charger’s sides, Master’s urge.
No test to win fair lady’s hand
As warrior's steed his bellows blow
Across the field of honor’s purge
Pursuant to the hounds,
The other side this day shall die
Till he and his colours go down.
Draft hooves cut the sod, divots fly
Into charger’s sides, Master’s urge.
No test to win fair lady’s hand
As warrior's steed his bellows blow
Across the field of honor’s purge
Pursuant to the hounds,
The other side this day shall die
Till he and his colours go down.
#war
#death
#horses #rebellion
#horses #rebellion
102 reads
15 Comments
calamitygin
Poem Published
21st Mar 2020 4:21am
21st Mar 2020 4:21am
Strike
It sat just beyond incineration
Swearing nonchalance with the great ease of a sociopath
It's jacket promising a "Good time at Larry's, bring a friend!"
Itself, lay alone and charred
If anyone had paid it any attention
One might have caught the sulfuric hint
of a mighty hell that had consumed whole
First Oxygen
And then home
And then for granted future
Of the hateful demon who had tossed the thing
And the red headed woman who had once laid beside him
Swearing nonchalance with the great ease of a sociopath
It's jacket promising a "Good time at Larry's, bring a friend!"
Itself, lay alone and charred
If anyone had paid it any attention
One might have caught the sulfuric hint
of a mighty hell that had consumed whole
First Oxygen
And then home
And then for granted future
Of the hateful demon who had tossed the thing
And the red headed woman who had once laid beside him
#fire
64 reads
12 Comments
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