Donations are essential to keep Write Out Loud going    

Popular last 30 days

Love nature God life hope poetry poem war writing pain

Popular last 12 months

Love poetry life nature poem War pain hope poet depression

dark (Remove filter)

Recent Comments

TobaniNataiella on Nothing Has Changed
2 hours ago

Hugh on Pensioners suffer a death sentence !!!
5 hours ago

Marla Joy on Gracefully
6 hours ago

Marla Joy on The Doughnut She Couldn't Eat
6 hours ago

Marla Joy on K. Lynn
6 hours ago

Marla Joy on Frank Pasciuti, Ph.D.
7 hours ago

Marla Joy on Intruder
7 hours ago

Beatrice on Why not
8 hours ago

Marla Joy on Admonitions for an emerging poet
8 hours ago

Beatrice on Black & Blue
8 hours ago

Never Alone

My mind is the only place I feel understood.

It’s a direct reflection of the confusion,

The hatred,

The insanity,

And yet it is home to me.

It beckons me back when I wander too far.

It calls my name when I’m lost in the dark.

Yet even with a thousand blessings,

I find myself crawling back towards the Hell

That dwells within me.

The chasm therein is deeper still

Tha...

Read and leave comments (0)

🌷(1)

lonelyalonedepressioninsightdarkgothecho

Whispers of Thornfield

On a rainy, silent night in Thornfield
the deserted streets, houses shrouded in fog
a town where time seemed to stand still
each shadow dancing beneath the flickering light
of the old train station
a relic of red bricks and worn wood

Clara Byrne waited
a young reporter, heart pulsating with mysteries
rumors swirling around her like the rain
about a train that departed at 11:59 PM
never...

Read and leave comments (2)

🌷(7)

trainClarareportermysteriesThornfieldheartcameraclockhourdiscoverynoiseshenotesimplelightdarktunnel

Swallow Me, 2

You would be doing me a favor

that I find impossible to gift myself.

Less death since one could say

my soul passed away

a long time ago,

Silently.

 

Like the serenity I long for.

 

No, not non-existence,

just

silence.

 

I scream a cackle into the 

cushions of my sofa

as the irony coats the inside of my mouth.

 

I must have

deserved

the ranci...

Read and leave comments (2)

🌷(8)

darklonlinessfree verse poetryexistentialimagery

Swallow Me

I slink around in my one-bedroom apartment

wallowing in my loneliness.

It feels like everyone who I have ever loved has

absconded from my grasp.

Shockingly,

they all fled in their own unique fashion.

 

Some moved away.

Some I moved away from.

Some turned out to be different

from whom I thought they 

ought to be.

Some transformed into something more

sinister

...

Read and leave comments (8)

🌷(7)

darklonelinessfree verse poetryexistential

#000000

a flick of a switch

and darkness crept into each corner of the room,

tracing each surface

and caressing each crack  

until each speck of dust

breathed in black.

 

a slight sigh

left her lips

and hung momentarily in the air -

feelings

that seemed so effervescent in the day

dissipated swiftly

as soon as they came.

 

and soon

shadows intertwi...

Read and leave comments (1)

🌷(7)

darkvoidfatiguemodern lifeuncertainty

Meritless Words

Words are such a funny thing,

Without actions that align, what value do words bring?

An illusion curated specifically for you,

By someone you wish so deeply would speak things that are true.

 

Screaming in anger, giving passionate praise, whispers of love, tone dripping in disgrace,

Love and hate simultaneously spewed in your face.

How is one supposed to feel,

Not knowing w...

Read and leave comments (0)

🌷(8)

raw poetrydarkbroken promisesdesperationhopeless romantictrustpeople and actionsdisappointment

Grey Day

Well he's definitely very angry today
He's gone and taken the world's colour away
Left me with only white, black and grey
Nothing, nada, no red, blue, yellow or green
No trace of them, gone! nowhere to be seen.
Vibrant pink, warm orange and vermillion
There nothing left now in this colourless prison
So how to describe the earth's serene face
The tree's and the flowers and wide open space
...

Read and leave comments (0)

🌷(3)

Mental healthdepressioncolourdark

I AM, (Both sides)

I am the serpent that writhes in your mind
Decisions, derision, words formed unkind
Mestophiles old, sat cast in stone.
Place steel in your hand that cuts to the bone.
Sameal seducer, moulder of man.
To cast doubt on a love, destroy if he can.
Grigori descended to mess with your lives.
Carry the hurt out on many poor wives.
Lucifer guides,  the road easy and wide.
Your lead to take, to p...

Read and leave comments (0)

🌷(1)

Godsdemonsfaithbeliefsdarksinchoices

My Love Is For Me, Not For You

Roses are red, violets are blue,

When I think of your love for me, I lose love for you.

What does my love feel like to me?

Being surrounded by beauty that only I can see.

 

Hidden behind my smile is someone fragile, flawed, and easily broken.

I showed you all of my healed scars and one by one you ripped them back open.

Again and again, my mind retreats to happier days while I ...

Read and leave comments (0)

🌷(4)

love lostlovelessmarriagevulnerabilityraw poetrydepressionstrengthperseverancefragileflawedeasily brokendarkloneliness

In Case I Lose This Fight

I almost killed myself tonight,

I ran out of reasons to live and reasons to fight.

Each day is a battle just to survive,

How is it that I am expected to thrive?

 

The loneliness in this house is overbearing,

I feel like a fool for even caring.

All I need is to be loved and feel wanted,

But my reality is the opposite while my brain is haunted.

 

Nothing I say or do wil...

Read and leave comments (2)

🌷(4)

depressionhelplesshopelessself-destructionfragileflawedeasily brokendarkraw poetryvulnerable

Ember

You can learn a lot about yourself in the dark..

The things that once terrified you no longer appear so large 
and that flame that you had to light for yourself 
will guide you to places that you didn't know existed

Thank yourself that you persisted 
You lit that fire in the damp, in the cold 
You nurtured it as it turned from a flicker to nothing but coal

Really, thank yourself for n...

Read and leave comments (0)

🌷(1)

thoughtsfromthecocoonhopepersistenceemberlightdark

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Find out more Hide this message