#Inktober Challenge (horror poetry edition)

Day 2: Relic 💍

#inktober2026 #darkpoetry #halloween #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #horrorsky #horror #horrorwriting

My #poem, published in Slash #Horror Mag for their issue theme 'feast', explores the violation of bodies through butchery #HorrorCommunity #DarkPoetry #vsshorror #PoetrySky
www.theslashmedia.com/piggy-pink-b...

Huge thanks to Dark Poets Club for this honour.

Delighted to be on this list alongside other excellent poets such as @carmellapoetry.bsky.social and Ella B. Winters

#darkpoetsociety #DarkPoetsPrize #darkpoetry

Turgescent Twilight by Shikhandin
https://books2read.com/twilight-shikhandin

Where twilight deepens, the human soul unravels—revealing beauty, terror, and truth in equal measure.

#DARKPOETRY #SPECULATIVEPOETRY #MYTHICPOETRY #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #bookbloggers #bookblast #booksky 🌎📚💙

OCTOBER Poetry Prompt Challenge! (final for 2026)

see rules post here:
https://www.patreon.com/TheRavensQuothPress  

(the image is the prompt)

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #darkpoetry #poetryprompt #patreonpoetry #booksky 🌎📚💙

in the pursuit of whimsy
everyone has fallen for its spell,
the shadows don't disappear
yet blind eyes remain turned

#darkacademia #melancholy #originalpoetry #shortpoetry #whimsy #sad #dark #darkpoetry #writing

The shadow knows first
what tomorrow hasn't said
the heart starts to shake
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Intuition #InnerWorld #Poetry

Eyes know what words hide
before the darkness arrives
silence on the skin
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #UnspokenWords #SensitiveSoul #Poetry

I feel far too much
and no one hears the trembling
beneath quiet peace
#DarkHaiku #EmotionalDepth #DarkPoetry #InnerStruggles #Poetry

A thousand faces
one forgotten self remains
beneath the skin
#DarkHaiku #Identity #DarkPoetry #InnerSelf #PoetryCommunity

The soul fell asleep
while the world kept moving on
without looking back
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #LostSelf #Melancholy #Poetry

The mask slowly falls
beneath it, silence remains
no one knew that face
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Masking #HiddenSelf #Poetry

What once disappeared
returns softly through the fog
I awaken now
#DarkHaiku #Awakening #DarkPoetry #HealingJourney #Poetry

Even too much light
can hurt eyes that learned to hide
when seeing was pain
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #SensitiveSoul #InnerPain #Poetry

The night knows the signs
before the cold reaches skin
no one speaks a word
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Intuition #NightPoetry #Poetry

A flower of thorns
keeps growing through every wound
still burning inside
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Resilience #GothicPoetry #Poetry

A wounded butterfly
slowly opens its dark wings
after winter ends
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #Rebirth #Healing #GothicPoetry

I no longer run
when the darkness calls my name
I remain awake
#DarkHaiku #DarkPoetry #SelfAcceptance #InnerStrength #Poetry

Guilt became the executioner I learned to obey,and every “I must” buried another piece of me away.
#DarkPoetry #GothicWriting #EmotionalPoetry #InnerPain #PoetistaOscura

The calendar feels like a graveyard in disguise,each passing date another piece of life that dies.
#DarkPoetry #GothicPoetry #Time #Melancholy #DarkSoul