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Best Scary Poems

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


Premium Member The Dark Side of October
The Dark Side of October

Late October moon is waking, through this cemetery shaking,
shaking as the cold wind breaking, walking ‘neath an old oak tree.
Stones like...

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Categories: dark, horror, october, scary,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Midnight In the Library
Around 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: scary, books, night, october, repetition,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Silhouette of the Night
Witching hour is upon us 
Dusky clouds, falling, swirling
Obscuring the crescent moon
Skeleton fingered branches
Beckoning me in the wind 
As I creep past the grave stones
To...

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Categories: dark, scary,
Form: Verse
Premium Member - When the Demons Blossom -
My thoughts whirring
When life freezes the blood

Actions that burn in hell
A fire that burns forever

Terror -  their empire of hate
Fearless, they control our destiny

Terrible...

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Categories: scary, angst, butterfly, conflict, earth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: scary, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Food For Thought - With Chris Green
Lyrics start 0.05 - timed to the music

Pack your bags dear, there’s a Croc near
And he’s creeping, through the night
With his eye on - on...

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Categories: food, health, scary,
Form: Lyric
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: scary, creation, cry, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lady In White
One pitch black night I was driving home and was ready for my bed
My usual route was closed for repairs so I took the minor...

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Categories: car, dark, humor, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eaten By the World
Eaten By The World

I tried to eat the world
but it caused me stomach pains
The bones of the lost 
are all that remains
It was flavored with...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, creation, scary,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In Sandalwood Dreams
Turned and tossed like toys
Riding the mighty waves
Their master does what he wilt
To them his humble slaves

Rudely he flings their boats asunder
But calm can be...

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Categories: boat, fishing, ocean, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Haunted House
The Haunted House

Driving with my date at midnight, looking at the August moonlight, 
lonely road, no one in eyesight, searching for a place to park.
Off...

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Categories: horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme
The Bell House Tower
We saw a dim light upon top of the Bell House Tower
a scream echoed out and then a dark shadow slipped 
by the light, in...

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Categories: scary, evil, halloween, horror, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Around the Corner
As I walk downtown I see an alley 
Where a black cat sat staring up at me,
The sound of her purring was so soothing 
Lulled...

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Categories: cat, halloween, october, scary,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Pumpkin Man
PUMPKIN MAN

Pumpkin Man
Is running wild
I hear he ate a neighbor’s child

With hollow eyes 
And jagged teeth
Escaping the oven what he seeks

Meant for pie by wify...

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Categories: scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh

Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of...

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Categories: scary, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs