Best Nightmares Poems

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 and wince at every little thing.
I'm scared to death, 
What does this all mean?
I start to cry,
I feel as if...

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These nightmares feel real, like I’ve been here before,
I must be stuck in a phantasm of visionary abhor.
It was when my eyes closed that I knew this was an illusion, 
now I’m tortured by this ordeal of agony and confusion. 
Lost in a different dimension...

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Last night I had a dream
that scared me half to death
I found myself running
but could hardly make a step
My feet were intertwined
and my legs gave out
I fell hard to the floor
and almost passed out

As I looked behind me
to see what I was running from
I see...

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Nightmares and Master Poe's Greatest Riddle

I took a silver fork, gold spoon and rusty knife
trying to cut away the dark stains in my life,
with each slice I stood aghast, dumbfounded finding more
chained was I, in torture room without any floor.

On its walls hung hands and...

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The news brought heartache; her dreams were dashed
In a sensuous, ebony gown, she had waited for her man
Till her soldier met his fate in Afghanistan
Her loss now lives on where nightmares are stashed




* August 7, 2020
“Be Inspired” Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: Regina McIntosh...

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Writing metaphors 
          with psychedelic ink,
but they are living things;
          taking me to hell in a basket 
         ...

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Nightmares
Deep inset fears
Heartbeat races forward
Overwhelmed with anxious feeling
Fearful...

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Don't you think that this title is darkly divine?
But, of course, there will have to be weirdness that’s funny,
Though my nightmares are many and have complex arcs
There’s some risk here I might have to work for my money!

Nightmare 1. To Wake Up Black

Can there be...

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"Nightmares Before Christmas" 

Christmas is here
ahead of time
as always

and you are 
the song in 
my heart

forever 
wassailing
more than hallelujahs

with the ghosts 
of Christmas Past
unwrapping words

decorations 
of the future sparkling
extracted like magic

carols 
from a stand alone
music box 

nightmares 
before Christmas
like snowflakes melt

green grass of home 
grows...

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Dreams And Nightmares
 
When we go to sleep at night we usually have pleasant 
dreams of happiness were we feel like we are on cloud 9
with some romantic partner or some beautiful island
destination, we see wonderful things of beauty, but all
of a sudden the dream...

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A slice of light strains in vain
through murky glass,  
pouring shadows into corners like spilled ink.
Dust floats and coats the acrid air,
white with stale light.  
The room is always grey, always silent... at first.
Until the silence breaks---
splintering like snapped wood.
  
A spindle...

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Under the darkened vale within the labyrinth
Of my cursed dreams 
How my wounded heart yearns
As the pages of my history turn
Back to those colourful cherished days 
Now out of reach and so far away.

I dream of my first love Diane
My sweetheart and star filled dream...

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MID-NIGHTMARES

It haunts the wicked parts of sleep,
where even dream's darkest corners will not tread.
Drowning shadows in the stinging tears we weep,
immobilizing dream and dreamer, frozen to the bed.

We cannot move a lower limb or arm,
and every image seen will prick the skin.
Grit fear, the grizzly...

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Dreams and Nightmares
Kiara Lebel

Every night I lay in my bed
I close my eyes and dream
Every night I prepare myself for what the night has to offer

I fear that my dreams will drown me
I fear that my dreams will damage me
I fear that my dreams will...

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Mommy! Daddy! Mommy! Daddy! The screams are getting louder
There is gulping now; this is sob-crying.
“I can’t take much more of this!” Daddy says, shoving his head under a pillow.
As if I can!

I get up and go in there, knowing I will probably be staying.
So, I...

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