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Best Dread Poems

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


Premium Member Doors
There are so many doors
Which ones should I choose
Green, yellow, brown, purple
and many different blues

Some of them are rustic
Others modern and clean
Some lead to the...

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Categories: dread, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, courage,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Male Menopause - Please Feel Free To Join In the Collaboration
Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -   
It’s the male menopause...

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Categories: dread, age, body, humorous, men,
Form: Limerick
Light On the Devil's Chord - Dear Lucifer
I cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits...

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Categories: dread, absence, analogy, character, corruption,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Night the Grinch Stole Our Muses
'Twas the night before Christmas and their pages were bare
  Not one word could they write, not one verse to declare
  The Grinch...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dread, christmas, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane

Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...

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Categories: dread, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Land of the Midnight Sun
I went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...

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Categories: dread, boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dread, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Desperate Housewife - In Limerick Form
A desperate housewife I knew
had such mundane housework to do.
Being so tired of it,
she decided to quit.
Then off to Las Vegas she flew.

Having always been...

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Categories: dread, adventure, wife,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: dread, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: dread, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Miracle On Ford Street
St Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...

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Categories: dread, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Inside My Head- For Contest
Hello there, do please come inside- no need to wipe your feet
excuse the mess, I fear you'll find it isn't very neat.
This place is always...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dread, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Heirloom
I lay within a drawer so long
Loneliness was my heart's song

My diamonds never saw the light of day
Since granma's death,I'd been that way

Her grandson went...

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Categories: dread, imagination, day, Grandson,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Darkness At Noon
The darkness at noon -  We’ve been led
to walk with a blossoming dread
through streets, as if we have no will,
and all the world is...

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Categories: dread, dark,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Sapphire Skies In Sanguine Eyes
In the absence of complication,
Trials and tribulations become distant memories.
Above sapphire skies delight sanguine eyes -
Inspiring forthcoming musings of the mind.

Hope of a brand-new day...

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Categories: dread, feelings, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs