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Best Scare Poems

Below are the all-time best Scare poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of scare poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part One
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part One)

As the Raven cross into the dark pits
Those in torment went into heaving fits
Its shrieking calls, alarms even...

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Categories: scare, dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Chasing Sandpipers and Gulls
I set up an easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed colors onto the palette...sea...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scare, child,
Form: Haibun
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: scare, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Child's Good Night
At night the sun has gone to sleep
And crickets sing a tune.
The bullfrogs croak and creatures creep
Beneath the watching moon.

The masked raccoons and possums prowl
Through...

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Categories: scare, children, dream, home, night,
Form: Quatrain
Before the Rain Is Gone
She kept it all inside her
and never spoke a word,
though her thoughts flew and darted
like a trapped and frantic bird.

Inside her was a garden
that was...

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Categories: scare, fantasy, imagination, naturerain, blue,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Death My Pal
Death,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth 
He liked to play games with me 
“Be ready,” he said. “I am...

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Categories: scare, death, fear, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Bury Me In My Jeans
"I've rode the range now fer nigh on sixty years,
Brandin' dogies and ropin' them wily Hereford steers.
When I come to the end of the trail,...

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Categories: scare, me, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shades of Poe , Speaketh
Shades of Poe , Speaketh


Shades of Poe oft run in my veins
dark, dirty little splashing stains
No Raven stirs my battered heart
nor any signs on my...

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Categories: scare, creation, cry, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Manchester Attack
Yet another incident has happened today
When will these terrorists go away
Manchester this time at a concert
Some taken to early some really hurt

Thier war now affecting...

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Categories: scare, child, conflict, together, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Tinker
A pint size spit fire that you are.
A wreckless goth chic with a permanent scare.
She fought all the girls and half the guys.
broke more than...

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Categories: scare, friendship, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Gentle Breeze
It begins as a gentle breeze
rustles the leaves with its touch.
Scurrying through the tops of trees,
it begins as a gentle breeze.
Not enough to discourage bees,
it's...

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Categories: scare, hyperbole, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Fairer, Indeed
WOMEN ...

Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of...

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Categories: scare, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - the Living and the Dead -
Halloween is a time to let the imagination run wild 
Halloween is a holiday shrouded in darkness 
linked to the supernatural and known for inspiring...

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Categories: scare, halloween, history,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Birth of Spring
Winter finally exhales its last frozen breath
as I inhale victory over our duel with death.
Slowly, the snow melts from its deep drifts,
as we cross life's...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scare, baby, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ugly Beauty Queen
Your ass is slightly enlarged
Your hips are somewhat wide
You have wrinkles all over your thighs
You eyes they droop 
Crows feet shoot me dead
With your dreary...

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Categories: scare, angel, beauty, love, poets,
Form: Free verse

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