Best Nightmare Poems
Below are the all-time best Nightmare poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nightmare poems written by PoetrySoup members
Past-Life NightmareA 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
BrokenOn 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
Be the Flame of CompassionBe 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
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
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
HopeHope 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
Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To PlayYesterday,
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
Texian Macabre ArenaThe 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 BladesI 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
Between the Words of My FatherI 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
The Vanity of PleasureA 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
He Touched MeDo 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 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:
nightmare, anger, children, death, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
nightmare, angst, bullying, conflict, courage,
Form:
Free verse
The HauntingCold, 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