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Nightmare Poems - Poems about Nightmare

Nightmare Poems - Examples of all types of poems about nightmare to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for nightmare.
FAIR FUTILITY
...It's gilded in bright colours Like a peacock butterfly; It sparkles in splendour Like a diamond in the sun; When it rests, it rests In confined dank darkness, In a bowel of nightmare W......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, death, extended metaphor, grave,
Form: Free verse



Ketchup Packet
...My worst nightmare sat down beside me With the most angelic face And whispered things too hard to swallow His smile sweetening the taste “All that’s wicked has the upper hand “All that’s pur......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, angst, child abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacrifice, freedom and justice
...My mind has been spinning, since toxin contamination I have been caught in a web of deception and corruption Searching the landscape, for words to describe this nightmare The toxins sickened my he......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, america, angst, corruption, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I bleed Poetry
...I bleed poetry to heal through midnight confessions. Mistress’s ink does not seek your caramelized validation; it has no desire to please your feed of presumed perfection. I’ve never......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, deep,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Nest
...I can't believe I thought that. In the shadows of my soul the whispers lingered. It murmured and elegantly sat massaging my last ego in the stool of regrets. My being was lied to, stomped at, shot w......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Quill Bleeding Ink
... Never have I used such a word as quill in my verbose verse, even when bleeding ink in nightmare night, nor when tripping light fantastic beyond fair golden sunsets; O' come sail......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
When I heard it from others mouth
...And not from yours. Since I heard every secret from little sides. When I heard yours, About me. It was like being stucked in a nightmare.......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Silence reigns supreme in my reich
...Silence reigns supreme in my reich No don (except me) doth trumpet within the aborted barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm, I annexed courtesy manifest destiny, which peoples now in......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Tired
...He thinks he killed me. So he rolled me up in a rug. I thought I died too but then I wiggled my toes. Rugs are bristly and hot, so I felt that too. When I try to unfurl, I just get wrapped tighte......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Too Close To The Edge
...The world tilts into a crescendo, manifesting a lure of viral plague, pervasive and fangs virulent, sickening coquettish carnivorous creatures. Why bother with their musings, why care? A qu......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, dark, extended metaphor, gothic,
Form: Bio
Queen of Madness Act2
...Even now, she could recall the intoxicating ecstasy that consumed her as the blade bit and tore. A perverse mix of terror and dominance, an unholy sacrament enacted to satisfy depravities that should......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, dark, gothic, holocaust, memory,
Form: Prose
Queen Of Madness Act 1
...Alice found herself in the icy grip of a desolate cell, her countenance devoid of emotion, her gaze lost in the abyss. As she hummed a haunting melody, fragments of her past began to surface, blurrin......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, dark, gothic, horror, memory,
Form: Prose
Premium Member De-nazi-fication
...eugen schwab don't blab..!! fat chance; that checkers dont cheat.' Facts stand, acid test.!......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, assonance, freedom,
Form: Haiku
City Of Broken Souls
...The city is littered with broken souls, To reside among nature, the purest of goals, Some dream of vast fields of green, Deep in their minds, a vivid scene. Chained to the nightmare of city lif......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, cheer up, desire, dream,
Form: Rhyme
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 aga......Read the rest...
Categories: nightmare, horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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