By Sarah Boon Fuck the cards and gifts that haunt the lonely Fuck the meal for one shame and garage flower deaths Fuck the pencilled in...

By Emma Keun The weight of your existence Presses down upon me Each breath hurts As I inhale A mere memory of you You exhale Elsewhere...

By Rebekah Haigh not a stutter no muttered response stilled nails a songless pause sonnet unuttered gaspless sobless breath caught tight...

By Mason Monteith Oh, Amor fati. How we love fate, And praise the sisters divine- As they measure and cut the line.   But in our...

By Cathie Borrie she refused Fear by tying ribbons of Dread and Quiet inside a Room of Beauty. in the morning, she searched in vain for...

By Daniel Sowa Evil grows like moss in cracks; Good, a sickly dove, barely lifts its wings. Millennia of trampling men like cigarette...

By Ismael Florentino Hemlock In your garden, wine, figs, laughter. My lips lingered on yours. Your hand brushed mine. A spark. You poured...

By Asraa Bhollazayi Deviling dervish, jaundiced son o' mine, Beat three an' pick a vine!   Pick a vine, any vine, my cradled flesh of...

By Petty Dreadful At the end of everything, the ancient one still roams. One by one, the stars go out, and leave this monster alone.  ...

By Ann Westgarth In still waters I see an image too wide at the cheeks too small in the mouth too lost in the eyes. There’s distant sky...

By Helga Lockheart The worst addiction isn't smoke or wine— not even poison dressed as bliss. It's people. The ones we thread through our...

By Andrew Darling Now I know why you shut yourself behind glass, solace lying in your lap – a noose, fashioned by your weaver’s hands....

By Cody Draco when that seed of a skull cracks open to reveal what has been long-gestating under the promise of parental protection will...

By Isabel del Rio look around you, but keep it to yourself:  this is the gratuitous strife we were invited to, this is the scene where...

By Fred Forse She spelled out ‘help me’ In her Alphabetti Spaghetti; A simple plea in a rich, red gravy. He ate her words. #darkpoetsclub

By Debarati Bhattacharyya Transformed from skin to skeleton They hound the dreams of the colourful city Their screams race into the...

By KAD Seven days have straggled by  since the passing of his wife. His soul is anguished. His world is vanquished. He lost hope, his...

By Leo Smith Up in knotted branches, where kin twist & turn, A breeze dances through, a whisper soft yet stern. The leaves grow bloody,...

By Philip Berry Summer nights, we sipped nitrogen with porous friends    Watched leaves un-fist at dawn lucent green vs the tactility of...

By J. R. Roland An empty confessional booth watches as they condemn our love to the lake of fire, taking from the same lake to light...