Get Your Premium Membership

Scary Poems | Examples of Scary Poetry

Scary Poems - Examples of all types of scary 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 scary.
Premium Member Dazzling Sunrise, Come Quickly
If this increasing darkness conveys a fear not chided, as ghostly shadows conspicuously confer mystery: do I hide or firmly resist being threatened by their miserable aspect of susceptibility? Anxiety builds fret inside first slowly, then rapidly? I squeeze and...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, anxiety, dream, emotions, romance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 1st Camp Out
Winding up the sheet, I just Couldn't sleep! Dragged the sheet outside, Beside the mud puddle, ...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Shakes and twist
Shaking like soda It plunges my heart with claws Assaults with its fist...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, anxiety, death, fear, mental
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Schizophrenic Portrait
Written: May 09, 2024 ...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, scary, sick,
Form: Free verse
Value for Life
When law and order broke down on the street, And people run riotous, with no retreat, Looting and destroying city's core, Youth, in their recklessness, yearn for war. But only those who've witnessed war's cruel face, Can truly cherish peace...Read the rest...
Categories: death, scary, violence,
Form: Rhyme



Cold
It's been a long time since a smile graced this face, the voices say, 'The pain will go away.' Wearing a mask to cover the decay, the voices say, 'Embrace the pain.' Been strong for so long...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, sad, scary, voice,
Form: Free verse
Syringe
Tip is scary Feeling forcibly crazy Nurse flu injection....Read the rest...
Categories: caregiving, crazy, feelings, scary,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Hooked Fish
Nervous I sat, waiting to be called. I wasn’t sure what it was he said, but it meant a lot to me. Then I realized, he was not talking to me. Oh well, I will be next....Read the rest...
Categories: me, scary, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Hospice Plight
Sad plight in hospice Fed smorgasmord of drugs Left the great beyond....Read the rest...
Categories: death, life, sad, scary,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Six More Minutes
If they knew what I was they would have never leave their son in my care He is fifteen and thinks he is getting lucky My fangs come out at midnight six more minutes kid gives me a wink...Read the rest...
Categories: scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member PrEdIcAtEd on PeRcOcEt
PrEdIcAtEd on PeRcOcEt predicated on percocet, or jacked up. that man that appears, familiar in a painting, when i land chin up. i see, clearly, a countenance of sin, with his back of head positioned on neck. hallucinating, dreaming, it’s horrible, i’m...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, art, drug, scary,
Form: Free verse
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: scary, child, death, horror, mother
Form: Other
Sulu Kampilan
Sulu Kampilan Can chop two or three heads clean One power spleen....Read the rest...
Categories: creation, culture, scary, truth,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Escape
They were bigger than me! Couldn't get free. Circled around, Until I fell on the ground! ...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Scars
Voices rush towards me all at once, Which I've been contemplating about since months. It's the frozen heart of mine, Which stops the other half of me from being kind. Personality clashes at its peak, There's no place left...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, absence, anxiety, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Scary Poems

Definition | What is Scary in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs