Best Ghost Story Poems

THIS IS A TRUE STORY. I CAN NOT DISCUSS THE DETAILS AT THIS TIME. THE CASE IS STILL IN THE COURTS. THAT IS THE REAL PAINTING, BLOOD TEAR AND ALL. I CAN SAY THE PAINTING WAS CONFISCATED BY THE POLICE AS EVIDENCE. AS FAR AS...

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Sue and I had lost contact when we left school and the Dominican Convent,
Met up ten years later, admitted both of us foolish, each nodded consent,
Had coffee, agreed to meet often, lived in Cape Town, merely a suburb apart,
Both happy with our villas, loved our...

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A Ghost Story


"Goodnight my dear", Mother said
As I lied upon the old bunk bed 
"Don't close the door"
I used to say, as she would turn to walk away

Once again she'd say "Good night"
And with one stroke, shut out the light
Night is what I’ve come to...

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night in haunted house
noisy presence in wardrobe
patch of damp in bed...

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 indigo moonbeam
Mere mortal deeply asleep
Shadow surge on wall

Indistinct movement
Particle of existence
Memories recalled.  

Melancholia
Sleeping face ignites sadness
Desolate heartache. 

Shimmering shadow
Lover's shade imparts soft kiss
Indigo moment....

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Yet again last night I dreamed I went to Manderley.
Again the rhododendrons perfumed the evening breeze.

I drifted through the terrace doors into the dining-room.
I found Mr. De Winter, sat in the gathering gloom.

Before him on the table, just within his reach,
Lay seven silver salvers, with...

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God is missing,                                   
Come hither there’s whiskey, drugs, sex, twitter!
Those who...

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While on a holiday hike in the Aravalli hills in Rajasthan,   
I stopped by a palatial house shining in the summer sun,  
curious, through the half-closed door I entered silently 
the dark front room where old furniture pile I could see. 

In...

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I met a strange man walking through the cemetery
He said, “Hey, If you’ll listen, I’ll tell you a ghost story”
I replied, “Those are dull.” He said, “On the Contrary!”
Then yelled “BOO” in my face. For that, he would be sorry

What he didn’t know, was that...

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You made me your home and when you left I became a haunted house.
No one wants to live in something that has been cursed.
No one wants broken shutters
or cracked beer bottles
or just a hell of a lot of boiling blood. 

No one wants to try...

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The Teddy Bears got up today
All washed and brushed their hair.
They sat around to eat some food
With all their thoughts elsewhere.

A special day ahead was planned 
Involving Lionel’s car.
With hats and coats and picnic made
and Freddie’s new guitar.

They set off on the motorway
At a quarter...

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Around the campfire, tired, no…worn-out
Anticipating a good night’s rest as a scout,
Our leader insisted that we listen intent
Before heading back to our awaiting tent.
We poked at the fire; we could vaguely hear
Sounds from a cemetery not so very near,
And the howl of a wolf, at...

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"Cry for the children for they are not here.

Cry for the children hold back not a tear.

My sadness and sorrow so heavy I'm weak.

They are not here nor where I did seek.

Cry for the children, who in the yard were at play.

Cry for the children,...

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OUTSIDE THE CITY

Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,  
I take a silent breath and walk a little slow, 
The cottage I live in is not too far away,  
All covered with ivy and an open doorway;
 	
Outside the city where the icy...

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It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch

If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;

if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads

uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!

If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;

if birds give up their verse
to comfort chicks they nurse,
while children dream weird...

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