Poems about Dark

• Slepping with the Enemy

  by shortshortcake 457 words, 1 comment, on Sep 25 7:30 PM. In Adult, Dark, Sad, Pain, Death
• Coal or Fire

  Glory fills my soul, / God's mercy and forgiveness, / The flame for my coal. / / As if floating up, / High upon the ethereal palm, / I fee

  by tirwander 226 words, 1 comment, on Sep 22 4:59 PM. In Dark, Sad, Spiritual, Hope, Angst, Personal, Thoughts, Religion
• Moth Boy

  Boy grew from a mothball / In the closet of the house / Of Mrs Pevensie the widow. / / Boy grew to be an oddball / And moved under the hou

  by dirty clean poet 335 words, 5 comments, on Sep 17 4:26 PM. In Rhyme, Weird, Love, Dark, Fantasy, Death, Childrens
• Syrup Boy

  Syrup Boy loved sugar in whatever form it came, / From candy canes to ice cream, he ate sweetness everyday. / He’d have éclairs for breakfa

  by dirty clean poet 224 words, 8 comments, on Sep 16 6:31 AM. In Weird, Humor, Dark, Death, Abstract, Childrens, Addiction, Life
• I Must, Mustn't I?

  “it could all fall down around me / just as long as I have you right here by me” / “I’ve been waiting so long to hold you / and be back in

  by Dirty and Broken 311 words, on Sep 12 2:41 PM. In Love, Personal, Dark
• Hollow

  I can't do it / I can't hold it / I can't keep up this fake smile. / Dried up and hollow / Yet the tears still fill my eyes. / I don't know how / And frankly I don't care / I'm trapped with myself and with my desp

  by SecretKeeper365 158 words, 3 comments, on Sep 11 11:33 AM. In Dark, Sad, Free verse, Personal, Thoughts, Contemporary
• Friends

  They disgust me.

  by Jjtee 93 words, 1 comment, on Sep 6 10:14 AM. In dark, society, Film, American, Psycho
• Closer To Reality

  Get close. / Now closer. / Into the mind of my lunacy, / and I'll tell you why we don't belong. / Because we are different. / and irrelevan

  by Kayla Ratava 172 words, 1 comment, on Sep 6 2:34 AM. In Dark, Society, Personal, Life, Thoughts
• On a Winters Morning

  / She stirred with some uncertainty as if she didn’t know / How she came to be there in the cold and sodden snow. / Trapped but without borders, she will never express / How much that she is missing in her confused distress. / / She shambles

  by dirty clean poet 158 words, 3 comments, on Aug 19 9:22 AM. In Rhyme, Society, Dark, Life, Sadness, Sad, Death
• On the Edge of Death Depressed

  by marcusmoore 233 words, 20 comments, on Aug 13 7:09 PM. In Adult, Dark, Prose, Life, Sad, Love, Family, Thoughts, Personal, Pain, Addiction
• Another Lifetime

  Another Lifetime / / Oh what joy / I am dying / / I will no longer have / a thought of you / / If I should ever meet you / in another li

  by Goin 2 Ashes 33 words, on Aug 8 1:39 PM. In Dark
• The Gap only has three colors: navy, white, and khaki

  by ravenontheleft 68 words, 9 comments, on Jul 24 4:01 AM. In Adult, Dark, Humor, Love, Personal, Thoughts
• Chasing the Worm

  Satan doesn’t have to come to me. I’ll go to him. / I expect to see him: waiting, massive, / writhing. / / I am too impatient for the bottle. / I chew through pure blue agave, / greedy for the gusano. / / Buffeted by protein, elixired,

  by celestialpie 113 words, 7 comments, on Jul 22 2:23 PM. In Contemporary, Dark, Free verse, Life, Nature, Sad, Weird
• Grace

  by Keaton Banks 160 words, 2 comments, on Jul 15 11:25 PM. In Dark, Free verse, Humor, Weird, Personal, Love, Contemporary
• I must

  My fakest truth:
  I tend to believe you.

  by Stressful Event 116 words, 2 comments, on Jul 8 9:37 AM. In Beat, Dark, Sad. Reward
• Visceral Response

  I concentrate on trying not to sweat. / You may find this hard to believe / But when I speak, I bruise my tongue. / This is me now, talking through the pain. / / Another Fourth of July come and gone, / And as soon as dusk comes I make my esca

  by celestialpie 300 words, 1 comment, on Jul 7 3:53 PM. In Contemporary, Dark, Free verse, Life, Thoughts
• a topographical map of a nipple and a pinch of unspeakable circumstance

  by ravenontheleft 190 words, 6 comments, on Jun 30 7:49 PM. In Adult, Dark, Love, Humor, Personal
• The Fellini movie is back.

  Something in me has changed and I don't like it.

  by Willow1818 331 words, on Nov 4 10:56 PM. In Angst, Dark, Personal, Contemporary, Weird
• Ultraviolet, or Roy G. Biv (Warning- very long piece)

  Somewhere over the rainbow, / There are no seven steps to heaven. / But the spectral paths of deadly sins / await my tread. / A leather needle and an alchemy den, / where, white-smocked, I gather / Solomonic shades for black experiments.

  by celestialpie 735 words, 6 comments, on May 9 10:45 PM. In Contemporary, Fantasy, Dark, Free verse, Weird, Alchemy, Psychedelic, Roy G. Biv
• Shadow

  Over my shoulder / A moonlit road / Far off into the distance / A shadow creeps / An insubstantial trace / Of a distant object / Whose shape it adopts / The trace of the physical body / From which it is separated / This shadow i

  by Goin 2 Ashes 205 words, on Apr 28 2:55 PM. In dark, sad, love
• No One Has Ever Begun a Healthy Relationship Gyrating Beneath a Disco Ball at 1:32am

  by ravenontheleft 153 words, 4 comments, on Apr 23 6:58 PM. In Adult, Dark, Humor, Love, Life, Weird, Personal
• I'd Be Better Suited as the Comically Large Stuffed Snake

  by ravenontheleft 146 words, 2 comments, on Apr 23 6:50 PM. In Adult, Dark, Humor, Love, Personal, Weird
• “These springy antennae are going to waste. What a world! What a world!” aka the Day I Ruined My Life to Save 45 Cents

  I could rescue my iPod charger
  from the clutches of the salsa.

  by ravenontheleft 152 words, 1 comment, on Apr 23 6:41 PM. In Humor, Life, Weird, Dark
• I’d Offer You Some, But I Don’t Want to Get Too Close Because You Smell Funny

  So nearby, who must observe with longing and
  Yet cannot partake, as their jaws have likely rotted.
  

  by ravenontheleft 99 words, 5 comments, on Apr 23 6:30 PM. In Dark, Humor, Weird
• Another Tale of Tears & Scars

  by baby lou 673 136 words, 3 comments, on Apr 23 3:36 PM. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Life, Personal, Rhyme, Sad
• I Ride The White Horse

  As the bright lights fade into darkness / Another needle shoots up into my vein / I stand teetering / On the edge of a murky menacing /

  by Goin 2 Ashes 128 words, 2 comments, on Apr 19 7:15 PM. In dark, free verse
• In The Face Of All That

  which he doesn't understand / why she dumped him without a word / he remains like one with his tongue / sliced off at its root / ................mute! / / looking straight / at its pointed truth / which has been shoved / like a dagger b

  by Goin 2 Ashes 231 words, 1 comment, on Apr 3 4:11 PM. In dark, love, free verse
• Obligation

  Light the candles, serve the wine
  Look at these blanks, my clouds.
  

  by Stressful Event 116 words, 7 comments, on Apr 1 9:54 AM. In Angst, Beat, Dark, Weird. Reward
• Page Forty-Eight

  by marcusmoore 200 words, 32 comments, on Mar 25 11:06 PM. In Adult, Addiction, Sad, Life, Dark
• I Am The Unburied Corpse

  While you lay beneath the soft earth / Unaware of your untimely demise / I lie awake weighed down / By cold icy crystalline thoughts /

  by Goin 2 Ashes 132 words, 2 comments, on Mar 20 9:58 AM. In dark, life, love