Best Ghost Poems
Below are the all-time best Ghost poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ghost poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
ghost, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an...
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Categories:
ghost, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Lyric
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
ghost, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Like Zephyr BreezeBefore I ever saw those eyes How deeply I loved you.
Before you read my first thought ...
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Categories:
ghost, absence,
Form:
Free verse
My Winter's WishesIn the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled...
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Categories:
ghost, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
No Thunder Without LightningLightning rarely strikes without thunder,
causing havoc in gloomy skies.
Humans can't control their plunder,
seeking shelter until the storm dies.
Once, I was your prince - full of...
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Categories:
ghost, absence, angst, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...
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Categories:
ghost, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Unsure the ShoreGrim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...
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Categories:
ghost, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Sonnet
The Rowboat On the MarshI don't need mawkish photographs to see
the drowning rowboat tethered to the dock,
a withered seahorse clinging to debris
as umber water seeps through feeble caulk.
The cord...
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Categories:
ghost, death, imagery, metaphor,
Form:
Sonnet
All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...
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Categories:
ghost, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
ghost, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...
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Categories:
ghost, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Texian Macabre ArenaThe First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...
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Categories:
ghost, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad
A Need To Be Somewhere ElseI’m the one who needs to be somewhere else,
I cannot stay in one place.
The grass is green where I’ve never been
and never have shown...
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Categories:
ghost, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
ghost, beauty, death, flying, freedom,
Form:
Free verse