Get Your Premium Membership

Best Fear Poems

Below are the all-time best Fear poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of fear poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

Read more of this work...
Categories: courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Am I
AM  I ?

Am I Just Standing Here, or Am I Just Dead?
Am I So Full Of Fear, I Lost Myself Instead?

Am I A Nobody,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: confusion, emo, emotions, fear,
Form: Verse
This Was Me
it began so innocently
we exchanged ideas on poetry
his art, the suffering he endured
he preyed upon my compassion
as he meticulously bided his time...

i felt safe as...

Read more of this work...
© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fear, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Teddy Bear-
My sweet little Teddy Bear...
Mommy gave 'YOU' to me
Now I never sleep alone at night
The comfort you gave when God's sunny eyes ran out of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: abuse, boyfriend, childhood, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Threshold of Madness
The cold hand of Winter swiftly approaches
Its breath etches frost on my windowpanes
Nearer my threshold, Death now encroaches  

Blood is slowly chilling inside my...

Read more of this work...
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, fear,
Form: Terzanelle



The Wounds of War
Dear Mother, should my footsteps never tread
The pathway which would lead to your embrace,
Know this, though many words were left unsaid,
Your love has pierced the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: fear, love, mother, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Gravitational Pull
Today I feel the pull
of gravity
on the depth of my depravity
There within that cavity 
resides my anxiety
It seeps out of my porosity 
feeding the insanity

I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: fear, abuse, addiction, angst, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part One
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part One)

As the Raven cross into the dark pits
Those in torment went into heaving fits
Its shrieking calls, alarms even...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He and She
He swings his arms and strides ahead
     She walks three steps behind

The center of the universe
     Cares...

Read more of this work...
Categories: abuse, fear, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Apocalypse Now
Running through the Lost Forest of no tomorrows, my heart beats at warp speed as the hideous howls draw nearer. My thoughts briefly digress to...

Read more of this work...
© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, fear,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that...

Read more of this work...
Categories: fear, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Broken Doll
Walls of silence hold,
 Me prisoner,
The child held within,
 Cries out for release.
Relative solitude comforts, 
Not the tortured soul,
Inward coiling withdrawing,
 Deep inside. 
Shedding its...

Read more of this work...
© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The House of Spirits
It looks like a simple brownstone building,
Not much different then any other but it’s residents,
Are of the haunted kind, not made of flesh and bone.
In...

Read more of this work...
© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: evil, fantasy, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wellness and Worry
Wellness and worry are by no means friends.
To be well, your mind of worry you must cleanse.
Living with worry, there’s a price to pay
worry will...

Read more of this work...
Categories: analogy, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Another Day Safe From the Harvester's Jaws
Out of the burrows and hedges and dreys
Heads came a bobbing in frantic relays.
Rumours were twittered and grunted and squealed:
‘The Harvester’s coming to furrow the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: angst, animal, fear, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things