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
Categories:
brother, candy, funny, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
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 ComfortIn 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 CooperThe 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 EnlighteningThe graveyard, shrouded in pale mist, so hauntingly eerie,
dampen spirits as the full moon loses her glow - dreary!
I float, like a vapour, amongst lifeless,...
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Categories:
grave, halloween, horror,
Form:
Narrative
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
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 was...
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Categories:
art, dark, fear, halloween,
Form:
Free verse