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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


Premium Member Step Ever So Light, On Halloween Night
Welcome to 'Step Ever So Light, On Halloween night, the legend of Halloween with an eerie twist. Are you brave enough to watch to the...

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Categories: halloween, night, scary,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Halloween Fun
HALLOWEEN 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
Premium Member Saints and Demons On Halloween
On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
 
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a...

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Categories: halloween, holiday
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Halloween Bride
And yet the Sun did rise again to warm a broken scene
It peered through ruined window frames where coloured glass had been
Inside, beneath a vanquished...

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Categories: halloween, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Halloween On the Dark Side of Town
It's a nightmare down on Elm Street. Satan's waiting here at home.
Where's that little Freddy Krueger with his nails of sharpened chrome?
And that dearest Michael...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: halloween, holiday, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poor Peter Pumpkin
Poor 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



Premium Member Birth
BIRTH

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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member The House of Spirits
It 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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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: halloween, evil, fantasy, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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
Premium Member The Vampire
For 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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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: halloween, dark, evil, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Halloween's Headless Horseman
One 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
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood 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
Premium Member The Enlightening
The 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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry