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
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Categories:
dark, gothic, horror, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Calls My NameThe 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...
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Categories:
horror, addiction, cute love, dark,
Form: Free verse
Yaldabaoth embellished in his shadowsCaliginous eyes
Fearsome face of sickly white
Lion-headed snake
Embellished in his shadows
With flaming orange beneath...
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Categories:
animal, color, evil, horror,
Form: Tanka
Lucy’s Nervous RunLucy'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...
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Categories:
horror, animal, anxiety, child, emotions,
Form: Limerick
Skin of TerrorSkin 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...
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Categories:
horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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...
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Categories:
adventure, bird, dream, horror,
Form: Free verse
Circus VisionCreepy 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...
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Categories:
dark, horror, magic, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Seven Uninvited GuestsThe 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,...
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Categories:
horror, confidence, dark, halloween, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Lost To The Four WindsFiendish, 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...
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Categories:
emotions, fire, horror,
Form: Pantoum
A Wider Beam
Night after night, images flicker on the tube
Horrific images of ‘the enemy’ dying
Dying ‘Agent-Orange’ deaths
...
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Categories:
death, history, horror, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
horror,
Form: Haiku
Humanity Is No MoreAtomic 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...
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Categories:
bullying, discrimination, fate, horror,
Form: Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
child, death, horror, mother
Form: Other
Basket CaseA 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
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Don’t write by moonlight...
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Categories:
horror, writing,
Form: Limerick
Last Moment Of PompeiiSweet moment recall
Laughter behind porticos
During Pompeii's fall....
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Categories:
history, horror, people, places,
Form: Haiku
Specific Types of Horror Poems
Definition | What is Horror in Poetry?
Poems Related to Horror
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