Best Halloween Poems
Below are the all-time best Halloween poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of halloween poems written by PoetrySoup members
HALLOWEEN FUNHALLOWEEN FUN
Carving the pumpkin, oh such fun
How they danced when dad was done
Twisted mouth with large, black eyes
To scare the kids, then pumpkin pies
Hear those...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form:
Free verse
On Halloween NightI hear the October winds whispering and I think it knows,
as the witching hour arrives and a harvest moon glows,
only once a year, do we...
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Categories:
halloween, celebration, death, family, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
- My Brother Stole My Halloween Candy -
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Categories:
brother, candy, funny, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween BirthdaysHalloween birthdays compare to no other
Preparations begin at the end of summer
Leaves change color, a chill is in the air
Outdoor decorations appear everywhere
Talk of ghosts,...
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Categories:
autumn, birthday, childhood, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
One Halloween It wasn't the usual Halloween night
Of parties and goblins, of which there'd been many
It was a year of big changes, for our family had moved
At...
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Categories:
childhood, halloween, holiday, me,
Form:
Narrative
Halloween Memories
I was dressed as a witch for Halloween that year long ago,
And with my friends we were going from...
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Categories:
childhood, halloween, happy, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Halloween NightCome with us Halloweening.
We’ll frolic in the streets.
We’ll race from house to house to house
Spouting “Trick-or-Treats.”
And eagerly we’ll each collect
Confections in a bag.
Fellow...
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Categories:
day, halloween, house,
Form:
Rhyme
POOR PETER PUMPKINPoor Peter Pumpkin had a very itty bitty head.
So the farmer made him stay inside the garden bed.
The farmer said that he was going to...
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Categories:
fantasy, halloween, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
BIRTHBIRTH
Once upon a moonlit night
There came a ray of magic light
That shone upon an orphan home
Where two small pumpkins left alone
To thirst and starve to...
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Categories:
halloween,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween's Mask of Comfort
In a house beside the forest lives a woman and her son
He is scarred by burns and fire – hidden kept from everyone
There is land...
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Categories:
desire, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
FORBIDDEN~ZOMBIE NIGHT~
WHINING WHISPERS MOVE ACROSS FORBIDDEN LAND
Rugged ruins crumble silent through the night
Echoes of the dead roam the air
Moonlight vanishes to complete despair
Bones slowly...
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Categories:
confusion, death, halloween, horror,
Form:
Free verse
THE HOUSE OF SPIRITSIt looks like a simple brownstone building,
Not much different then any other but it’s residents,
Are of the haunted kind, not made of flesh and bone.
In...
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Categories:
halloween, evil, fantasy, fear, god,
Form:
Free verse
Frozen-A collaboration with Shane Cooper
The frozen sap of mirthless trees,
The fractured flow of icy streams.
The howling wind that claws at life,
The forest shrouded in endless white.
Skeletal ice hangs...
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Categories:
autumn, halloween, winter,
Form:
Couplet
THE VAMPIREFor I am death, the personification of pure evil,
The grand godfather, of legions of unnumbered generations.
Behold thy disciples, baptized beneath my crimson waters,
Of blood.
Then reanimated...
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Categories:
halloween, dark, evil, fantasy, gothic,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween's Headless HorsemanOne Halloween night when I was five
Rain pelted city streets, we stayed inside
Dad lit the Jack-o-lantern candle
Told us the tale of a famous vandal
One “Headless...
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Categories:
childhood, children, dad, halloween,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Blood Red MoonBlood Red Moon
Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings
Whose fangs hideously...
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Categories:
dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form:
Quatrain
The Grim Reaper ComethAs All Hallows’ Eve approacheth my thoughts turneth to darkest dread,
Whilst in old age I harboureth a deep fear of seeing this one’s grim head;
Methinks...
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Categories:
halloween, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Sonnet
- Haunted Beauty -
The family had just moved into an old castle in Scotland;
mother, father and their only daughter, Emmie, that they loved so deeply.
Emmie...
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Categories:
art, dark, fear, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
The Bell House TowerWe saw a dim light upon top of the Bell House Tower
a scream echoed out and then a dark shadow slipped
by the light, in...
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Categories:
evil, halloween, horror, murder,
Form:
Rhyme
Around the CornerAs I walk downtown I see an alley
Where a black cat sat staring up at me,
The sound of her purring was so soothing
Lulled...
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Categories:
cat, halloween, october, scary,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
- The living and the dead -
Halloween is a time to let the imagination run wild
Halloween is a holiday shrouded in darkness
linked to the supernatural and known for inspiring...
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Categories:
halloween, history,
Form:
Verse
Halloween's Evil Visage ComethHalloween’s Evil Visage Cometh
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of...
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Categories:
dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
Blood Red MoonBlood Red Moon
Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings
Whose fangs hideously...
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Categories:
dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form:
Quatrain
- Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh -
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of darkness,
Begin calling to...
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Categories:
evil, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
THE HEADLESS HORSEMEN
On the black stallion of death,
Its red crimson eyes pierce through the night,
And the hell's beast breathes its hot brazen breath
Blazing against the darkness's chilling...
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Categories:
adventure, dark, evil, halloween,
Form:
Free verse