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  1. Monday Morning Musings

    There is nowhere to run. The monster isn’t under the bed. It’s buried behind your eyes. Panicked thoughts only lead to more panic. Send to someone who knows the madness. Follow for musings every Monday.

    jlgang.wordpress.com/2026/10/1

  2. Second issue (Fall 2026: Portals) live. Copies from limited print run available in online store and free to read online. Enjoy!

    fearindust.com/current-issue

    #darkpoetry #poetry #horror #horrorpoetry

  3. Numb to the burn

    I've been staring at the ceiling,waiting for it to grow lips,whisper something.The hours keep bleeding.Heart's a slow, ambered cigarette,smoking down past the filter,the last protective line,while the world keeps turningand I fall out of time.I don't flinchwhen thunderstorms hit.Nothing gets in,not even fires from hell,not screams from the damned.I'm numb to the neon,cold to the touch,haven't been going out much.Wind in my ribcage barely gets out,cracks the spine on every inhale.Still here in […]

    matthewhaubert.wordpress.com/2

  4. Monday Morning Musings

    This piece was born from that melancholy tradition where love and decay walk side by side, and the line between living warmth and a spectral chill is paper-thin. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, master of gothic verse.

    jlgang.wordpress.com/2026/10/0

  5. My poem "The Crack in the World" just went live in Larina's Lit Lounge, Vol 2, Issue 20.

    #darkpoetry #poetry

    larinawrites.substack.com/p/la

  6. Dangerous

    Pay no attention to destroyer death.
    He and all his hangers on
    and familiars many named,
    are manifestly all the same.

    A dangerous energy is death,
    but there are enemies worse
    who go by many names,
    thinking they enjoy hegemony,
    are similar, but destroyers, all.
    #DarkPoetry #Death #Mortality #Mythology #Spirituality
  7. Dew on the Dark Wing

    Once, I was a dew winged youth 
    that must be why
    I delight in the way the wingèd
    carry yellow light with
    pollen, blossom, ink and dark
    dew dripped from the sun above.

    I love the dark, the passing shades
    of bats from out of graves,
    dung, beetle, and dirt dripped
    from graveyard and garden park,
    I must attract a different bird
    who swallowed the poisoned moon.
    #DarkPoetry #Fantasy #Magic #Mortality #Mythology #Surrealism
  8. Holes in the Sky



    >>> black hole >>> Milky Way <<< white hole
    |
    | (wormhole)
    |
    ( earth
    anti cyclone
    \\\ ///
    /// \\\
    cyclone )


    Note: I’m not a physicist

    #Astronomy #ConcretePoetry #DarkPoetry #Science #Surrealism
  9. I am honored to have my poem "Overflow" in this month's issue of Neon & Smoke Magazine.

    #darkpoetry #poetry

    neonandsmoke.com/september-smo

  10. 🥀 Dark poetry doesn't begin and end with blood and graveyards.

    Nightmare Poetry welcomes the gothic, supernatural, psychological darkness, grief, folklore, the uncanny and plenty more besides.

    Two poems are selected each month for publication in the next Dark Descent.

    ✍️ Submit through the Dark Forum:
    darkholmepublishing.uk/darkfor

    #DarkPoetry #HorrorPoetry #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

  11. ...
    Finally I understand
    The feelings of the few
    Ashes and diamonds
    Foe and friend
    We were all equal
    In the end

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    (A 2020 recording.)

    #DarkPoetry
    #PinkFloyd
    #RogerWaters

  12. Two Suns in the Sunset
    by Roger Waters

    In my rearview mirror
    The sun is going down
    Sinking behind bridges in the road
    I think of all the good things
    That we have left undone
    And I suffer premonitions
    Confirm suspicions
    Of the holocaust to come

    The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in
    Gives way
    And suddenly
    It's day again
    The sun is in the east
    Even though the day is done
    Two suns in the sunset
    Could be the human race is run

    (Pink Floyd, The Final Cut, 1982)

    #DarkPoetry
    #PinkFloyd
    #RogerWaters

  13. The Other Face of Ruin

    After the fire, there is ash, ruin, and the strange numbness of standing still while the burning continues.

    kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/

  14. Monday Morning Musings

    Even with fresh faces, sitting high in a tower, people still look small. We elect stewards and receive only landlords. The architecture doesn’t change. Welcome to the dream.

    jlgang.wordpress.com/2026/09/1

  15. Like #Poetry? Dare you venture through the Shattered Mirror?

    Shattered Mirror

    A short collection of dark poetry about the horrors of war, political folly, nature, the vagaries of life and twisted introspection. https://books2read.com/BeyondShatteredMirror #DarkPoetry

    Amazon.com http://amzn.to/2Dqz8BC

    Smashwords http://bit.ly/2mpNkmH

    Audio

    Amazon UK audio  http://amzn.to/2mjUUm1

    Amazon.com audio http://amzn.to/2lU6C5u Audible UK http://adbl.co/2cyCQgQ

    Beyond the Shattered Mirror

    https://books2read.com/BeyondShatteredMirror

    A collection of dark poetry exploring the brutal realities of war, the price of politics and greed, humanity’s self-destructive nature, the haunting price of cancer and mortality. Verses of introspection, ennui and psychological darkness.

    Journey where innocence is lost, futures uncertain and existence laid bare.

    Audio https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Shattered-Mirror-Poetry-Collection/dp/B0BFRZG457/

    Amazon audio https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Shattered-Mirror-Poetry-Collection/dp/B0BFRW2YNK/

    Audible.com https://www.audible.com/pd/B0BFRVJRC4/

    Audible.co.uk https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0BFS2C8XX/

    Into the Shattered Mirror

    A dark poetry duology: war, politics, life, loss, nature and the vagaries of life feature in this special two-book collection.
    Featuring – Shattered Mirror – A poetry collection & Beyond the Shattered Mirror

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09Y4S73V4

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Y4S73V4

    #darkPoetry #Poetry
  16. Monday Morning Musings

    Every menu looks and feels different. Though the kitchen is the same. The choice is an illusion. Welcome to the dream.

    jlgang.wordpress.com/2026/08/2

  17. "I gift you that broken me, Stuck in between.
    Of what I am, And who I wanted to be."

    Words by a Human. Voice by a Machine.
    A fragment from "In Between" — Lyrics by AWOL.

    books2read.com/u/mgX81X

    youtube.com/shorts/bl46UicwV6Y

    #Poetry #DarkPoetry #SpokenWord #IndieAuthor #PoetryBook

  18. ✮ Lady Green Sat on a Cob ✮

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  19. CW: CW: fascism, genocide, dehumanisation, violence, death

    I wrote a poem again.

    And, well… this one crawled out of a considerably darker corner of the basement.

    It deals with fascism, genocide, dehumanisation, violence, death, and some other subjects that really ought to come with a warning label and a small cup of tea. Hence the CW for this post...

    I do like that poem. Quite a lot, actually.

    Writing it was cathartic. Sometimes the things that fester in your head need to be dragged into the light, given a name, and made to sit quietly on the page instead.

    Whether I publish it is another question.

    I’m still deciding whether this particular little monster belongs in public, or whether it should remain locked in the cupboard where I keep the other things I write when the world gets particularly unbearable.

    I'll give you one small look:

    We are not your citizens.
    We are not your subjects.
    We are what you get
    when the hunted grow teeth.

    What do you think?
    🖤

    #Poetry #DarkPoetry #PoliticalPoetry #AntiFascist #NeverAgain #QueerPoetry #WritingAsCatharsis #WordsMatter

  20. Fearing Figments

    everything is so soft
    it seems as if you are floating
    like a feather
    lying on the air

    the darkness rises slowly
    you see a room before you
    thinly lit with moonlight
    a form materializes
    out of the darkness

    it is pale
    pale as a ghost
    a ghost!

    you freeze
    sweat dripping
    down your face
    you close your eyes

    something soft touches your shoulder

    you jump

    you are falling
    falling
    falling

    bump!

    you hit something hard
    your bedroom floor
    you rebuke yourself

    scared of your own pillow
    and a shirt thrown over a chair

    From the collection “Words at 16 (1983)”

    #1983 #atmosphericWriting #bedroomNightmare #childhoodFear #DarkPoetry #dreamLogic #dreamPoem #eeriePoetry #fallingDream #Fear #fearAndImagination #fearPoem #ghostPoem #gothicPoetry #hauntedRoom #haunting #Imagination #kmlsPoetry #moonlight #pillowGhost #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #psychologicalHorror #shadows #spookyPoem #strangePoetry #surrealPoetry #uncanny #visualPoetry #WordPressTagsForThePoemNightmarePoem #Writing
  21. "Some hearts don't turn cold because they stopped loving they turn cold because they finally learned where love should never return."

    #darkpoetry

  22. “I was never cruel for choosing myself; I was only a wounded soul learning that peace is not something to beg for, but something to protect.”

    #DarkPoetry

  23. glimpsing god

    the heart pigment of
    plundered poetry, decides
    my soul is a glimpse

    a shrapnel of words
    until the day my
    mind is shattering

    my red rimmed eyes are
    seeding the secret soil
    into solid earth

    spider walking air
    paper laced into my hair
    spins the silver sphere

    the tall grasses poised
    the birds dancing into
    the rose horizon

    spirit of the hours
    gradually I cast my prayers
    into the river

    in the sight of love
    I’m the clown ambassador
    salt the snow for stars

    many tongues and gods
    the melting water flowers
    in the morning steam

    wind blurs the blackbirds
    crying their mysterious
    glimpses of a god
    #DarkPoetry #Depression #Nature #Spirituality #Surrealism
  24. Vengeful Woman

    This poem was first published in March 2023. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how a single person’s bitterness can actually derail an entire country, and that’s really what pushed me to write "Vengeful Woman." ​When I look at the political landscape today, I see this terrifying trend where personal vendettas start to look like the state policy. In this poem, I wanted to capture the persona of a so-called leader who has completely lost the plot—someone who doesn't care […]

    shahblog1.wordpress.com/2026/0

  25. The Lowest Bid


    The Lowest Bid by Stewart Stafford

    The sceptre is cast to the shivering sea
    with divine ordinance, codes of chivalry.
    A blinding vision of the fallen from on high,
    New roving dregs with a scavenger’s eye.

    Yield up the light, coax out the dying flame,
    Punishment for crimes revokes your name.
    Was freedom built on ancient delusion?
    It persists as the architect’s cold conclusion.

    The most degrading and painful descent
    is the one to the lower “kingdom” crescent,
    Shadow throne invoked by seditious implication.
    Collusion not coercion, mummified by mediation.

    Trust not the expedient offer, the beatific start —
    They can only embalm the chasms of the heart.

    © 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.

    #Angel #Angels #Anger #Arrogance #DarkFantasy #DarkPoetry #Defiance #Devil #FallenAngels #God #Hades #Hell #Hubris #Lucifer #Milton #Nephilim #ParadiseLost #Poem #poems #Poetry #Pride #Prophecy #Prophetic #Satan #StewartStaffordPoems #TheFallen #War #WarInHeaven
  26. ✮ An Ache That Pricks Even Thorns ✮

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    Subscribe #AbsenceAndLonging #AfterlifeReflection #Applause #BeautyInSorrow #Bed #BereavementPoem #BrokenHearts #Butterflies #CemeteryImagery #Change #ContemporaryPoetry #CosmicImagery #DarkPoetry #Darkness #Death #Decay #Disguise #Echoes #Ego #EmotionalCatharsis #EmotionalDepth #EmotionalHealing #EmotionalResilience #Emptiness #Enmity #Erwinism #ErwinismPoetry #EvocativeImagery #ExistentialPoetry #Farewell #FarewellPoem #FestiveKnell #FieryOrb #FinalGoodbye #Flower #FlowerBedSymbolism #Forgiveness #ForgivenessAndPeace #ForgottenLove #FragileRelationships #FreeVersePoetry #FuneralBells #FYP #GhostMetaphor #GhostPoetry #Grief #GriefPoetry #HealingJourney #Heart #HeartbreakPoetry #HiddenPain #HopeAfterLoss #HopeInDarkness #HumanConnection #HumanVulnerability #Illumination #Imperfection #InnerStrength #Inspiration #IntrospectiveWriting #June #Learning #LettingGo #Life #LifeAndDeath #Light #LightAndDarkness #LiteraryExpression #LiteraryPoetry #Love #LoveAndLoss #LoveBeyondDeath #LoveLost #LyricalWriting #MeaningThroughSuffering #MelancholyVerse #Memory #MorningMist #MortalityReflection #Motivation #MourningAndMemory #NatureSymbolism #NewBeginnings #Nostalgia #November #NovemberReflections #Perfection #PersonalGrowth #Perspective #PerspectiveOnLife #PhilosophicalPoetry #Poem #PoeticReflection #Poetry #Progress #QuietDespair #ReflectivePoetry #RelationshipLoss #Renewal #Resilience #SeasonalMetaphors #Secrets #Shadows #ShadowsAndHope #SilentGrief #Sorrow #soulSearching #SpiritualReflection #Spring #Storms #Strength #SummerAndRain #Sun #Transformation #TransformativeLoss #UnchartedRegions #Universe #UniverseAndLove #unspokenEmotions #Writing
  27. ✮ Fear ✮

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  28. Black and Blue Ribbons

    Cupid’s dart through the heart,
    by a sentence stealer who wrote
    poetry with bruise hued ribbons,
    shining signs and a lifetime supply
    of bowties and harpsichord drums.

    Weightless work in the sea, a
    fighter and fisher, a hunter of
    human flowers, focused on the sole
    surprised survivors of daylight,
    papered over with sharp delights
    and black and blue ribbon rites.

    #DarkPoetry #MagicalRealism #SpeculativePoetry #Surrealism #Uncertainty
  29. Bright Darkness

    A bright darkness you see
    freezing all hues said she
    from a mouth you can’t
    have thoroughly conceived.

    Put me down as I’m no
    longer made of bone and
    bricks, just wood carved of
    the rightful seed I’ve sown.

    A kiss for me, to know every
    mystery you imagined the
    world contained, no longer
    bright with stars that shine.

    O darkness bright you see
    freezing every hue said she
    from my mouth you cannot
    silence violence completely.

    #Art #DarkPoetry #Mystery #Philosophy #SpeculativePoetry
  30. “As we embrace the world fades away
    Moonlit Veins are the only thing that remains…”

    Moonlit Veins by Sam Tumblin 🌙

    A gothic poem of dark romance, moonlight, and passion beneath fractured skies.

    samtumblinblog.wordpress.com/2

    #Poetry #DarkPoetry #Gothic #WritingCommunity #Poem

  31. Hello, I’m Sam Tumblin.
    I write gothic poetry, dark reflections, and emotional verse inspired by moonlight, fractured thoughts, and beauty within shadows.
    New poems regularly on WordPress.
    #Introduction #Poetry #DarkPoetry

  32. >SYSTEM INITIALIZED: ~$:IDENTITY_KERNELVOID
    I dwell where tech meets narrative decay.
    Day: Arch Linux user & security enthusiast. I dissect systems from kernel to logic gate.
    Night: Dystopian architect. I build worlds via prose, fueled by the art of comics, manga, and anime. Bridging binary logic with creative chaos. Looking to connect with builders and storytellers. Let’s talk code, world-building, and industrial aesthetics. #KernelVoid #ArchLinux #cybersec #darkpoetry #WritingCommunity #Manga

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