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Best Nightmare Poems

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Premium Member Past-Life Nightmare
A child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.

Night...

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Categories: nightmare, autumn, mystery,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Broken
On a special Suicidal Night,
I sit alone inside this nightmare 
In a nightmare with no windows 
Nobody can see me
I can see nobody

Flowers, above
My eyes...

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Categories: nightmare, absence, death, emo, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Be the Flame of Compassion
Be the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...

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Categories: nightmare, care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sweet Sugar Cookies and Peanut Butter Bars
"I dream of Candy!"

Sweet cakes and peanut butter squares 
A living diabetic's nightmare. --  My heart 
sings to the beat, Under the Neutron Star...

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Categories: nightmare, addiction, candy, fantasy, funny,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs

There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…

seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape 
of sun-raptured...

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Categories: nightmare, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hope
Hope is a song of bird
Reassuring forlorn dawn,
The nightmare is banished
And the dream is still alive

Hope is a Lotus flower
Drowning in the night
Yet, rising through...

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Categories: nightmare, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: nightmare, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: nightmare, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
Nightmares and Razor Blades
I stare at my ceiling,
I start to wonder, why am I not healing?
Then it dawns on me,
The nightmare clip starts to roll.
I shake and shiver...

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Categories: nightmare, addiction, anger, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between the Words of My Father
I tried my best 
To live between your cruel words
Yet there was no room
I felt less
Smaller than small
So why didn't I fit?

I wonder
Now that you...

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Categories: nightmare, farewell, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: nightmare, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Touched Me
Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it...

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Categories: nightmare, miracle,
Form: Free verse
What More Can We Do
Haunted 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: nightmare, anger, children, death, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Butcher Came
The butcher came for the sheep
                   the...

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Categories: nightmare, angst, bullying, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Haunting
Cold, so cold, as everything seems to enshroud me 
encasing light, the flame of life - darkness within.
Slivers of blue, ice my lips, like a...

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Categories: nightmare, horror,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs