Best Shriek Poems

Ten-year Randi Clay
Just moved into town -
The town of Fear Street,
Where horror pulls you down.

Enormous, gigantic calendars
She sees, hung on her street
On October 10th is marked
In red  - ‘The Birth of Pete.’

She makes new friends at school,
And likewise - enemies too,
Who seemed to keep...

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In the woods no right of way, no right to live, no right to play.
I travel quickly, as dusk is beginning. Woods are thick, on this day.
Wood tick and spider heaven, I walk gingerly, on wet old leaves.
Dog has deserted me, long gone, chasing things...

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Dodging Hate’s Siren-Shriek 
                       by Odin Roark

He had survived
Six months believed to have made him a man.

Today,
He only wanted his mother.

Today,
Time was running...

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In the old house a creak
We went in for a peek
The floor boards all squeak
A ghostly shriek
Makes my knees go weak
My futures looking bleak
I'm on a loosing streak
Please! no more hide and seek.


Name    : Nick Bagnall
Contest : A Creepy, Scary Haunted House...

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My mouth is weak in gape
That night my eyes in gawp
The night of war in memory 
Horrendous ISIS brought Paris.
Horror! The world in anguish
Bataclan Theatre in despair
Before Eiffel shrieked in anguish
The dead, maimed, the innocents
The glints of Eiffel now in glitch
Begrimed! 13th of eleventh month
As...

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My blood freezes as their high- pitched 
vile shriek echoes from the close by forest.
Every now and then I get a glimpse, 
as if they roam in my house, watching over me. 

At mid-night, very often;
They shake my bed roughly,
I sense as if someone is...

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I heard a prattling rattling battling noise
In my children’s room, in the midst of their toys
Slurp and Shriek
Dancing deep
A battling ram came out and gave me a peek

Was that a battling ram? I asked my imaginary friend.
She threw flowers on me and refused to bend.
Dived...

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They say that walls have ears to hear
   But not a mouth to speak
Though it's mostly for the good, I fear
   For if I did, I'd shriek

Permit me to introduce myself
   I'm a doctor's office wall
My length and width...

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Arising before the dawn, 
to meet the earth, 
your honeymoon was over with innocent.

You start becoming extinct, 
with stained excuses. Naked as a belief.

There was no contradiction.

An imitation will take over, 
for the surreal tomb.

A gift of rain will fill the bowl 
left for Buddha,...

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Profile picture painted to please Jennifer Lopez
Smiles for miles to the dynamite of Taio Cruz
Sights, heights and flights into serene skies
Bereft of dour dues, hostile hues, cantankerous queues and bludgeon blues.

Laughter in a merry matter to flatter Nicky Minaj
No grenade on a serenade to degrade...

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As men pledge allegiance to their demons,
seagulls shriek louder to warn God;
these creatures only have feathers
for clothes and don't feel a bit of cold! 

How sullen the skies would be
without the presence of seagulls:
no shrieks, no flapping of wings...
and the saddest would be me!

I can...

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SHRIEK

As Edvard Munsch walked with friends
Across the bridge spanning Oslofjord
His sister’s situation struck a chord
Admitted to the lunatic asylum nearby
He saw the blood red colour of the sky
Nacreous clouds now hovering lower
Perhaps it was a symptom of Krakatoa
That famous volcanic eruption of late
And had an...

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It was time to come in from the cold
I am no longer young, I am old 
My legs long and hairy 
They creak when I walk
Once the talk of the town
But they now let me down

So I hide in the corner and nod off to...

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A whispered shhh  hung in the air
Tall grass rustled nearby
A slight sniffy, snorty snout sound
Preceded the crinkly crunch of dry grass
Sweat slithered across my brow
A large head appeared
Violently shaking
Hanging jowls jousting
Saliva arcing aimlessly
A growl ruffling the air
We ran
Screams scurrying ahead
Saliva spewing demon behind
Fear fueled...

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I hear her 
When, in stillness – peace,
She surrounds me with her promises,
Light, mist on the morning, hope
Lifting away all the doubt, the darkness
With a feeling, a soul stirring scream

I hear her
Beating, in rhythm – harmonizing,
She echoes in reflections of sweet joy,
Soft, erasing all the...

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