#dark literature

[booshoos]

2AM. during silence, it circles again.

my thoughts, round and round, like vultures drawn to a hollow corpse.

pathetic. weak. a burden. is that my voice or someone else's? it doesn't matter— it never matters.

it spirals closer, always this: the emptiness, the sting, the sharp, unforgiving blade pressed against my skin.

[its-simply-just-krys]

“Mouthful of Forevers”, Clementine von Radics

[namedvesta]

“Well, if God doesn’t exist, who’s laughing at us?”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

[anneverapoetry]

but not forgotten

[juneacademia]

Literature is the window to the soul.

[infiniteradius]

[edwardian-masquerade]

"If roses could talk, they would not boast of their beauty, because they know that they have always been beautiful."

-Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

[authenticity2025]

[amicus-noctis]

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.” ― Franz Kafka

Drawings by Franz Kafka from his sketchbook, circa 1901-7. Literary Estate of Max Brod, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Photo by Ardon Bar Hama

[spookysalem13]

Gothic Love Poems 🖤

For all of the dark literature readers, lovers of all things moody, spooky & Gothic. I've found an amazing list of Gothic love poems for this Valentines Day.

Please let me know if you've read any or use any as part of your valentines celebration.

[insomniacflorist]

"You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.

- M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

[insane-in-the-membranee]

In the shadows of my love, a haunting truth lingers – my boundless affection, a curse veiled in desire. I dread the certainty of my impending ruin upon you, yet, entangled in selfishness, I refuse to release the grip of this heart that claws at your soul. You, dear one, unwittingly embody my twisted salvation.

✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙✙

[namedvesta]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Love Poems to God (𝟣𝟫𝟢𝟧)

[thediablerist]

https://pin.it/45Rbfzokd.

[anneverapoetry]