Category Archive: Dark Poems

Dark Poems

Apr 06

Poem: Grave Danger

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Few things are more scary than a newsletter from a school that a child went missing, this tries to capture how serious times have become that our children now expect and perceive things like these as normal. Grave Danger Remember when she knew zero before the missing went missing and a high school press release …

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Mar 16

Zombie Poem: Final Rush

Perhaps inspired by AMC The Walking Dead or the multitude of Zombie movies I watched as a kid, Final Rush was originally inspired by 10 words which I left in bold as part of a previous Creative Copy Challenge. Final Rush You run while you pump seven remain in pursuit you drop low; blend between …

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Mar 08

Poem: Taken

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A life taken by a predator who has been considering but never actually attempted to claim a victim until now is the theme of this particularly dark poem. Taken He wasn’t even being selective modern man with no prior success nothing but his hot breath visible in the formidable cold she didn’t give a second …

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Mar 03

Poem: Meeting Your Maker

Mike jumps off a mountain

  Terminal, no hope or reason to keep going there is only the bucket list and checking off the final things before retiring from life itself.  It is time now to meet your maker and cross of the remaining items on the bucket list. Meeting your Maker From this view the lip of a mountain …

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Mar 02

Poem: Persecution

Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen

In hiding trying not to be found, were they really that different and how does anyone have the right to judge someone by their skin color, race, religion or any factor and persecute them? Persecution Were they so different? Were they so awful? hiding in the warm shelter fear continues to swell with the noise …

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