Most Commented Dark Poetry Poems (2,485)

So you think you're smart with your nasty words
As you fling them to the wind
With these words you aim to cause much pain
So everyone can see your superiority

Through books you hunt high and low
To find words that cause much confusion
You think by this they look so dumb
And in your eyes you rise much higher

Sie sind ein Feigling der versteckt
Hinter dem so genannten Wissen
Aber ich wess die warheit zu sehen
Du bist wirklich weit unterlegen

An intruiging puzzle I cannot solve
An obscure memory from out of the past
Luring me , challenging me to some unknown quest
Whispering promises of felicity at last
Moonlight casts shadows on a seldom travelled path
A sense of foreboding as it draws me near
Yet I trudge bravely onward , enticed by mystique
Oblivious to any notions of fear
Distant sounds of thunder and rumbling abounds
Darkness prevails over light
Ominous warnings promply unheeded
I vow not to relinquish this fight
So captivated am I by the words that you speak
Paralyzed by the sound of your voice
Alas I've travelled too far , no turning back now
I love you ,you leave me no choice ...

As a child I recall such horrible visions...
Staring at four corners of the room in my prison...
Spirits would appear in such abhorrent conditions...
And torment me, I felt no choice, yet made my decision...

Lacking toys that normal children play with as kids...
A broken mirror, most pieces clear, I formed a crude sphere...
What was I to do?......I longed for light in the dark...
A spark of thought, I do recall, I'd lost all my fears...

I summoned several Demons through a process of prayers...
They dared me to surrender on invisible chairs...
Then handed me a laser and said...'child don't fear'...
'Just point the light, into the shards, no need to be scared'...

As light reflected into the first piece of sharp glass...
It's speed continued to proceed....it went very fast...
It traveled from one broken piece, then into the next...
Complex it was, the Demons knelt.....'Twas Satan at last...

'Confused' is not a word that I would use to describe...
The feelings that the Devil made me feel deep inside...
He offered me some candy in exchange for my soul...
His goal was done, Lucifer won, a fallen Angel's Son.....

In endless space
we float
Everyone of us..
Incased in our own
private translucent
sphere
Slowly we move through
time like molasses in
a thick impenetrable
void
I can see you through my
sphere but I cannot touch
you and you cannot touch
me
There are billions of us
ocassionally bumping one
anothers spheres and moving
in whatever direction..
We are lost in time if there
is such a thing
Perhaps we have measured time
by our pain but it doesn't
matter
What matters is that we have
awakened to a consciousness
finding ourselves imprisoned
in this elastic sphere that
shall float in a suspended
sea of eternal blackness..
From our spheres we can only
hear one another in inaudible
tones..
I see your tears..
I feel your fears..
I can only cry out these words
to you..'I love you,' and when
I speak those words an intense
light radiates from within your
sphere and you become a star!

Drawing from the spirit of Steve
Crowing each morning
singing to the light
Six million dollar rooster
In bionic terms

I would lift him up all proud
Aged about nine at the time
He was the champion
Lifting stones
Feeding him worms

Followed us like a dog
He was the top rooster in the yard
given to me as a pet
I looked after him
like royalty

One sad day
Home from school
He went missing
Calling for him in the garden
Nowhere to be seen

Mother shouts
Dinner will be ready in five
I asked if she saw Steve
No was the reply
A few minutes later

Called in
Sitting down at the table
To a leg of chicken
Accompanied with chips
Finished eating
My father began
Roaring laughing

When I asked about the rooster
He laughed you just ate
one of his legs
I burst out crying
Trying to get sick
What a monster

Balling out
roaring crying
My mother tried to put her arms
around me
I pushed her away

Horrified at what she done
Sure she cooked him
I could not believe it
Thinking she was always
Very kind to me

I was so sick
could not believe
Just ate my favorite pet
Went to the bed
Cried myself to sleep

No more Steve
Food of thought
Watching out the window
Before sleep

As the dogs ate
The last of him
I still remember fondly
With chips

I see the light
In your darkness
Only now
I crow
In the light

a wind blowing
underneath rafters
enchanting like gale,
thousands of souls
begins moaning
whistling eerily
within the noise

the mind cannot sleep,
a storm gathering
brewing within pain
soulfully cries

inside voices responds
screeching to stop
danger of darkness,
coming near

in cold hands
outside in raindrops,
crying tomorrow
a shiver
down the spine
someone talks
deep within

the gut feeling
always right
to blind
obvious to late


believed in someone
who made a fool
out of me
in loving you
the whistling stops
now I see
the face
of one soul
whom I pity

I whispered into the emptiness afraid of what I'm might hear
But even more afraid that there would be nothing there
My shadow casted fear and gave a reason for my pain
As my thoughts became like rotten fruit and they began to fall away
My lips utter desperately from deep inside a broken heart
I look up to the heavens, but my flesh stays hidden in the dark
Where silence fills the voids to disengage and disrepair
Better days let me escape and evaporate into the air
I sit beside myself when I'm alone at night
As I listen to the melodies of the dead trying to capture a life
And from this sorrow loneliness became my only friend
While emptiness replayed their voices over and over again

I remember that day and never looking back
I said goodbye to my family and grabbed my duffel bag
Im off to be a hero just like my grandfather and my dad
Im going to fight for America Im going to become a man
I will make you all proud by protecting all your dreams
Generations of battles war nerve pumping throughout my veins
Familiar echoing war drum beating inside from my angry heart
No sooner than I am deployed the blood shed and death will start
Nothing could prepare me for the violence I would see
I met death with my first kill, and made a deal with inhumanity
My first experience of occupation I fired at every moving car
The rules of engagement were simple kill everything both near and far
Giving candy to little kids all named Michel Jackson, but not to win hearts
But to use them as human shields against the enemy insurgent charge
Women and child seperated from their husbands and father
We were lethal shepherds in armor hurding the lambs into the slaughter
Still to this day when I close my eyes their screams become my ghost
Eight months inside the hole, I lost myself, I lost all of my hope
My dreams become a horror for my nightmares have now over filled
And from my cup and my eyes their blood will be poured and spilled
I look at a tattered picture of my own family back at home
But can not smile or remember or I too will come undone
Numb by design, programmed in fear, and not to feel
Compassion has left me alone, I am cold organic steel
Casualties of war are corpses I ran over in the valleys and the fields
Im a killing machine a 1014 an M16 are the swords that I weild
A modern day holocaust ordered to kill anything posing a threat
But when getting fired upon from a crowd its hard to identify a target
Lock and load Little Elvis once again it's time to kill
Weapons forged against us lay in the terrain and hides in the hills
RPG fires into defending walls as bullets fire screaming past my head
Machine gunners leveled that f@@#ing building while my comrades are laying dead
Adrenalin pumping fuels the plans for my next attack
Hot flashes of steel pierces my skin as shrapnel shreds through my flak
People who were in prayer were no safer from their deaths
Bodies still burning, in pieces, or taking their final breath
Children run through my site with tears inside their innocent stripped eyes
She was no older than ten as she watched her little brother die
Deafened ears fall upon me, blood now is my fate
Hell is abroad in this desolate God forsaken place
Soldiers took trophy pictures of their faces with the dead
Who is the enemy I wonder, this doesn't make any sense
The boy who left home to become a man he never did come back
His soul still wanders the Tigris River lost forever to Combat

For all of my fallen friends, heroes, and families. You are always with me and will see you soon

lying back
in deep thought
twisted hurt inside
screwing with
the thoughts
in a toxic world

just popping
into a lunar
moon space
in my mind
floating around
sweetly smiling

i am
a passionate lover
yet i hide
myself away
from the world
laughing loving
so deeply
inside the heart

lost everything
i believed in
golden feelings shine
from the house
of treasures
straight into
the very heart
but i sill believe
in you love

as hate
it puts
the gun upon
the table
with fully
loaded chambers
safety off
finger upon
the trigger

my last poem
i am smiling
without love
i blow my
brains out
squeezing the trigger
slowly click
bang

Whats coming through the mirror is still alive
As I stand before me on the other side
I see that what I am is not who I should be
And what I want takes everything I need
Like the bitter sweet taste of apathy
A serpent hissing amidst the voice of divinity
Promising to turn water into wine
As I place a bandaid over bleeding eyes
Blinded by the golden halo on my head
In my reflection it becomes the snake around my neck
Suffocating me with every single breath
With inconsistencies of life through death
Is there a younger face of an immortal me
A ghost inside this shell of eternal sleep
Considerately killing me with compromise
The sword that cuts surrender and bleeds out sacrifice
A wolf stalking me with every step I take
Drinking from the blood puddled beneath my faith
Though battle worn my courage will see me on
Into the darkest nights until new breaking dawns
From dust I came and as dust I shall return
With honor I'll give a part of me back to the earth
And on that day I'll watch the serpent die
As my energy ascends into bright neon skies

~ JJF~