how to write goth poemes

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You're probably wondering how such tormented and artistic individuals pen

such magnificently dark epics, where they got their expressive names, andhow you can crank out the same self-pitying drivel, uh, create your own

shadowed and unearthly opus. Read this list of handy tips for the propercreation of Darkly Gothic Poems. Then choose an appropriate subject from

the page of poems, and the Goth-O-MaticTM will help you express your innerangst!

Darkly Gothic Tip 1: DarkRaven's probably already taken

Choose an appropriate gothic moniker by which you wish to be addressed. Feel free to

throw a couple of appropriately dark and wicked words together to form somethingmysterious with which to impress your nonpoetic friends. Adding a color to a predatory

bird is still reasonably popular, as is naming yourself after one or two of the notable

entities in Hell.

Darkly Gothic Tip 2: Choose an appropriate subject

Things such as darkness, loss, pain, grief, madness, death, night, and the bloodthirsty

undead make good topics for darkly gothic poems. You cannot create a darkly gothic

emotional abyss about how hard your Spanish class is, or how Mom gives you grief for

wearing black eye liner.

Darkly Gothic Tip 3: Read Edgar Allan Poe

If you don't know Poe...

Darkly Gothic Tip 4: Feel free to hurt!

Go ahead and let that emotional turmoil draw you into depression. It makes you create

better. You can always pull out of it, right? You don't want to commit suicide, but you

want to make everyone think you do. Oh, and don't be that person that goes to schools andstarts gunning down innocents; those people have some sort of weird revenge or God

complex, and they never write good poetry.

Darkly Gothic Tip 5: Don't try to create a darkly gothic poem at 2:15 on a sunny

Friday afternoon in a hip artsy coffee house drinking a decaf mocha espresso

Enough said.

Darkly Gothic Tip 6: Go ahead and chop it up

Don't worry about how short the lines of your darkly gothic poem are. Feel free to devote



every line to a scant few words or even a single word. Remember, solitude makes

something stand out by itself, um, well, by definition. Consider the following:

'Falling ever darkly into

the ebon abyss of feral eyes,

screaming againstthe groping fingers of your

black obsessive passion,

torment.'

...Wow! Did you feel that torment at the end? We know we did. Hey, entire outpourings

of tormented souls have been contained within a couple of fingerspans on the left. The

best poems will make you scroll down a Web page after only twenty words or so.

Darkly Gothic Tip 7: Yeah, yeah, dark, blood, heard that one before

Grab that thesaurus and rape it. The more methods you have of saying the same word over

again will vastly increase your wordsmithing. Using little-known words like 'eidolon,'

'inexorable,' 'vitae' or 'etiolated' will give you a depth which not-so-darkly gothic poets

will envy.

Darkly Gothic Tip 8: Blow it way out of proportion

Go off about that personal angst. Rant in a depressingly deep way about the heartless one

who left you alone and barren in the world because you were too depressingly deep.

Describe the vision of the ethereal path you have chosen; make sure there's dark fog

wisping through it. Display your broken and tattered soul for all to see. Occasionallystopping and reaching your arms out in the stigmata position helps stretch those creative

muscles. Take minor everyday objects (a clock) and make them looming and malicious (a

stark, cruel reminder of inevitable mortality, blank and accusing, every second drawing

inexorably closer to oblivion).

Darkly Gothic Tip 9: Use those bleak images!

If you're building a poetry Web page, or any goth page for that matter, it is imperative that

you include any picture of an angel statue or gravemarker you can find. Those weeping

Mary ones, or angels with heads bowed, make your poetry that much more painful to read.Ah, I mean convey your pain all the more. If you can combine it with images of dead

roses and a few spinning-ankh bars, so much the better.

Darkly Gothic Tip 10: Get inspired!

Of course, one can't always be at one's utmost ghoulish. Sometimes, even the undead can

get that pesky writer's block (let alone the occasional artery block). Be creative! Go out to

a local cemetery and read the tombstones. Find a large flat one and lie down upon it,

reveling in your closeness to the dead. Lock yourself in a darkened room and read H.P.

Lovecraft stories to yourself until you sob with horror. Got that feeling that needs creative

writer's block healing? The brave even move toward ancient Celtic, or even Runic



manuscripts for that special surge of dark energy. Feel free to go to European cathedrals

and sit through those Latin choir hymnals with a tape recorder. Practice saying everything

in Vincent Price's voice.

Darkly Gothic Tip 11: Get classy with some regional interest

For a special esoteric flavour that leaves the reader aching, er, moved to their centre, go

ahead and spell using the Queen's English. Go check out that great medieval literature, the

ever-popular Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Use names like Ethelred, Morgoth and

Vincegatorix for darkly powerful supernatural beings. Check out a medieval book from

the library and write a poem about the torment of translating Middle English while

blinking from the blood dripping into your eyes. Let your imbalanced humours bleakly

shine!

Darkly Gothic Tip 12: Don't be (that) afraid of sunlight

Every Darkly Gothic Poem need not be written about distant fogs rolling through twilight

graveyards (but boy, do those poems taste good). Let the sun bring to light in your poetry

your horrible guilt, your significant other's hypocrisy, and your self-absorbed pity, I mean,

your hidden meekness. Let that eye-searing daystar expose your naked insignificance,

burning you to your angst-ridden soul.

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