Best Haunted Poems
Below are the all-time best Haunted poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of haunted poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
haunted, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
No ReservationYou Are Not Invited
--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...
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Categories:
haunted, abuse, bullying, deep, evil,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin LaneIn Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane
Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...
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Categories:
haunted, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
haunted, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
No Limit To How Long We Grievewhen you let go of my hand
you let go of my heart
as I stumbled and crumbled
life seemed to have paused
silent screams
raged inside
but I was just...
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Categories:
haunted, absence, lost love, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Anxiety, Collaboration With the Silent OneDear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.
The fault is in our...
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Categories:
haunted, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Beyond the Bloom of StarlightBeyond the sun's celestial dominion,
past purple shimmers of twilight,
I delve far beyond moonlight's golden glow
into the darkness of pilloried memories,
continually searching for answers...
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Categories:
haunted, dream, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Malaise In My HeartThere is an abysmal void in the hollow of my breast
where once my heart pulsed, now weak and weary.
I cannot quell emotions your death has...
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Categories:
haunted, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
The ReturnThe air is thick with memory -
A fog of reminiscence.
Or is it simply mist
Rolling through the window?
I feel the wind and taste the...
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Categories:
haunted, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
What More Can We DoHaunted by the death of dreams
and slaughtering of innocence
but too afraid to dig up the bones
and examine our own mistakes,
we bury...
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Categories:
haunted, anger, children, death, sad,
Form:
Free verse
The Lives I Have Known PotdIt has been ages since the laughter died, which was many suns ago,
Soon swept away by fleeting time, like the brief giggle of a rainbow.
My...
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Categories:
haunted, absence, house, imagery, life,
Form:
Couplet
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:
haunted, evil, fantasy, fear, god,
Form:
Free verse
Midnight In the LibraryAround midnight, in the library I found myself drawn,
to these shelves haunted still by Poe, Stevenson and King,
as a rare, late October storm brews beyond...
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Categories:
haunted, books, night, october, repetition,
Form:
Pantoum
MagicEnchantment of magic’s sweet passion has bound me
With minutes and hours I now must reclaim;
Spellbound, love calls to the spirits around me
And drifts into dreams...
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Categories:
haunted, love, heart, song, green,
Form:
Rhyme
Cherokee TearsCherokee Tears
ceremonial drums' rhythmic heartbeat
impassioned tribal chants
echo in Smoky Mountain mist before dawn
tortured spirit of an ignoble president
Andrew Jackson seems imprisoned here
haunted by wailing ghosts...
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Categories:
haunted, native american,
Form:
Free verse