At the beginning of each playthrough, three special poems are chosen randomly to be shown throughout the game at predefined points in the plot. There are a total of 11 special poems.
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This is a crudely drawn stick figure of Sayori’s hanged corpse. There is red coloring present underneath the figure’s empty eyes and on its hands.
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This poem is just a short sentence: “CAN YOU HEAR ME?” A short giggle sound plays when the poem is clicked away.
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It’s a blackout poem reading “nothingisreal?” However, the image can be manipulated and text can be read underneath the black bars. The full poem reads as follows:
Irregular heartbeat. Heart palpitations. Arrhythmia. I search and search, eyes scanning everything I can find on their symptoms. What is this? Shortness of breath? Chest pain? Dizziness? No. This is all wrong. Elyssa's symptoms are nowhere near this simple. I've seen it twice now. The screams of pain. Sickeningly pale skin. Vomiting blood. There is no other explanation, other than that Renier's information was a complete and utter lie. This can't all be coincidence. It's not possible. I don't know how much of this Renier is behind. But I do know this: There is something horribly wrong with this family. And I accepted the invitation to become a part of it. I can hear Elyssa's screams through the walls now. I listen helplessly. Renier said that he would be with her shortly. Is he in her room now? Why is she screaming even louder than before?
There exist no references to Renier or Elyssa in the rest of the game’s files.
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The black bar cannot be manipulated to find text under it, unlike in poem_special3.png. However, the file's EXIF data shows that the obscured word is "Yuri".
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This poem instructs the player to stare at a dot to reveal a special message. After ten seconds, the dot changes to the text “i love you”.
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This poem seems to loosely parallel Sayori, Monika, and the player’s relationship.
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This doesn’t appear to be a poem. Instead, it’s a broken and distorted Monika. When the player tries to dismiss the poem, the second image displays for 10 milliseconds before continuing.
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Though there’s no confirmation of this, it’s speculated that Natsuki is the author of this poem due to her numerous references to her father.
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This message appears to be written by Yuri, though there’s no confirmation of this.
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The poem appears to be about a character dreaming about being drowned.