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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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
Resonance An American SonnetThe resonance of the old vampire’s voice
holds the soul of the French Quarter;
Thick as a rich pot of red beans and rice
just waiting to be devoured;
You can hear the succulent sound of jazz
in...
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Categories:
dark, emotions, feelings, horror,
Form: Sonnet
House by The Railroad, 1925 by Edward Hopper 1301"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of...
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Categories:
horror,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Witching HourDeath,
you're freed;
With one taste
define nightlife;
Now I will take you,
drip for me as I taste
and then erase your anguish;
Give yourself to the Witching hour;
Strawberries decadent in moonlight,
it was not the apple that Eve...
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Categories:
horror, creation, dark, death, emotions,
Form: Etheree
The Night Ghost Of Bed
I felt the weight on the covers press down
under nothing but darkness
with nothing but something beside me
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Categories:
dark, fear, horror, night,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
anti bullying, crazy, horror,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Hypocrite
The Hypocrite
The Doubter hides behind religious guise,
Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies.
His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile,
Espousing, “Darkness must be exposed by light”, all the while.
Release the...
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Categories:
horror, anti bullying, bullying, christian,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Horror Poems
Definition | What is Horror in Poetry?
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