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Horror Poems | Examples of Horror Poetry

Horror Poems - Examples of all types of horror poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for horror.
Journey Of A Heroine
My journey of blood Sword of viscera and steel ...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, gothic, horror, metaphor,
Form: Haiku



Calls My Name
The orb calls to me, beckons breast beat, blood in veins permeates, face red with heat, as I asphyxiate, am dominated, reach climax. Each time lustful, more powerful, sensual. I crave this fix, my only reason to exist, addicted to...Read the rest...
Categories: horror, addiction, cute love, dark,
Form: Free verse
Yaldabaoth embellished in his shadows
Caliginous eyes Fearsome face of sickly white Lion-headed snake Embellished in his shadows With flaming orange beneath...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, color, evil, horror,
Form: Tanka
Lucy’s Nervous Run
Lucy's running nerves made her stew Race time, her legs stuck like thick glue When would be her time Now a hard stool crime Why did she always have to poo! He watched as she...Read the rest...
Categories: horror, animal, anxiety, child, emotions,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Skin of Terror
Skin of Terror - Daniel Henry Rodgers (Lights slowly rise on a lone figure, MICHAEL, hunched over a steering wheel. His knuckles are white against the worn leather. Pre-recorded sounds of a desolate highway hum faintly in...Read the rest...
Categories: horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Rainy Days, and the Old Red Barn
“Allen saw it first Charlie then later Allen chased the black raven Charlie lived his dreams”. Steady rain had been falling for two straight days In dimming, muted light. Striding out from the middle of a weeded field The two men...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, bird, dream, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Circus Vision
Creepy patience, eerie desires following the dreamlike honeycomb, consistent unawareness, wax in tatters, exhaling fortune-tellers, spooky scenario, come in harlequin mischievous, that is not time, that is your life; brave, remain unhinged, so easy to say until a certain...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, horror, magic, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seven Uninvited Guests
The gathered, outside my house, lingered long, As if it were Halloween night - A rogue's gallery of goblins and ghouls, They were an unwanted sight. Their faces had a strange semblance of masks, Looking like twisted versions of me. Yet,...Read the rest...
Categories: horror, confidence, dark, halloween, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lost To The Four Winds
Fiendish, they encapsulate strawberries; Subliminal message makes mouths water; Phantasms won’t let go of the fields lost to the four winds of conflagration; Subliminal message makes mouths water, you can smell such a superb sweetness; Lost to the four...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, fire, horror,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member A Wider Beam
Night after night, images flicker on the tube Horrific images of ‘the enemy’ dying Dying ‘Agent-Orange’ deaths ...Read the rest...
Categories: death, history, horror, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Alligator Red Eyes
alligator eyes in a Florida river so creepy red eyes...Read the rest...
Categories: horror,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Humanity Is No More
Atomic bombs are dropped on babies Humanity is thrown out of the door Humanity is dead. Humanity is no more There are too many aggressive and demoniac atrocities Wars are heartless, bestial, perilous, satanic and deadly The hypocrisy is clearly...Read the rest...
Categories: bullying, discrimination, fate, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ghost Stories: COMPLETED
[Fiction Out West] A mining town, among others, had been shut down the longest. Long before the mines closed, and all the towns followed. As the story goes; one night, a 10-year-old boy walks into a...Read the rest...
Categories: child, death, horror, mother
Form: Other
Premium Member Basket Case
A waste paper basket, a trash can, a bin Whatever you call it, some things won’t stay in The things that you write Long into the night May make, when discarded… one hell of a din * Don’t write by moonlight...Read the rest...
Categories: horror, writing,
Form: Limerick
Last Moment Of Pompeii
Sweet moment recall Laughter behind porticos During Pompeii's fall....Read the rest...
Categories: history, horror, people, places,
Form: Haiku

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