Short Dark Poems
#dark
Short dark poems. 30 words or less, most recently published poems first.
No Title.
So, I take my bones to a dirty grave,
Because maybe dying is better,
Then bleeding in a sweater.
Middle of the summer,
In this hot weather.
Because maybe dying is better,
Then bleeding in a sweater.
Middle of the summer,
In this hot weather.
#dark
#grief
#SelfHarm #summer
#SelfHarm #summer
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Sunday January 5th
Mommy, come look!!
Daddy pointed a gun at his face and fired it!
He won't get up
Mommy, he's funny looking, come look!!
Daddy pointed a gun at his face and fired it!
He won't get up
Mommy, he's funny looking, come look!!
#children
#dark
#death
#father
#suicide
104 reads
17 Comments
No Title.
That little girl's rotting corpse,
Still moans in my bones,
And no amount of makeup,
Could make her pretty again.
Still moans in my bones,
And no amount of makeup,
Could make her pretty again.
#childhood
#dark
#despair #grief
#despair #grief
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2 Comments
Methamphetamine
Needles were never meant to pierce your skin.
My dear, you are not a doll.
Those needles can't sew you back together again.
My dear, you are not a doll.
Those needles can't sew you back together again.
#addiction
#dark
#drugs
#grief
#SelfHarm
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A Possible Ghostly Tease
John saw Denise standing naked.
"No! You're dead!" was what he said.
When he approached, she disappeared.
"No! You're dead!" was what he said.
When he approached, she disappeared.
#dark
#fiction
#ghosts
#lover
#sex
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Shards
When i reflected
Upon the last year
I found the mirror
Cracked
Wherein lay
A myriad of distorted memories
Upon every broken shard
As parts of me
Lay scattered
Upon the wasteland
Of my existence
by Jemia
Upon the last year
I found the mirror
Cracked
Wherein lay
A myriad of distorted memories
Upon every broken shard
As parts of me
Lay scattered
Upon the wasteland
Of my existence
by Jemia
#dark
#depression
#LifeAsAWriter #LifeStruggles
#LifeAsAWriter #LifeStruggles
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Urban Stalagmites
The ominous scent of cavernous notes
like urban stalagmites dripping red
in shattered neon and polyester
The shadow leaving its soul dead
waiting for the herringbone
defining the moment instead
like urban stalagmites dripping red
in shattered neon and polyester
The shadow leaving its soul dead
waiting for the herringbone
defining the moment instead
#dark
105 reads
9 Comments
Sometimes God Makes Broken Babies
Missing parts
And broken hearts
So little girls
Can become little women
Always looking up
And asking
Why the fuck
Did you make me
Like this?
And broken hearts
So little girls
Can become little women
Always looking up
And asking
Why the fuck
Did you make me
Like this?
#dark
#emptiness
#grief
#PTSD
#shame
112 reads
10 Comments
Like A Scene From An Eli Roth Movie
We found poor
Natalie stripped,
hanging and
dripping blood
into a candle
that's beneath her.
Natalie stripped,
hanging and
dripping blood
into a candle
that's beneath her.
#dark
#death
#dialogue
#fiction
#FreeVerse
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Latest Victim Of A Jack The Ripper Wannabe
Linda came home from partying.
Someone turned the lights off on her.
Her corpse was found slashed.
Someone turned the lights off on her.
Her corpse was found slashed.
#dark
#death
#fiction
#home
#scary
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Dead
My body slowly becomes intertwined with the soil,
Feeding the worms , giving back to the earth.
I have never felt so free.
- Forgotten writer
Feeding the worms , giving back to the earth.
I have never felt so free.
- Forgotten writer
#dark
#death
#depression
#suffering
#suicide
132 reads
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Loss
Loss of youth
Loss of truth
Loss of innocence
Loss of consequence
Loss of control
But what hurts most is
Loss of hope
Loss of truth
Loss of innocence
Loss of consequence
Loss of control
But what hurts most is
Loss of hope
#addiction
#alcohol
#dark
#drugs
#emptiness
106 reads
5 Comments
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