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Best Terrified Poems

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


Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: terrified, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Amendments To Make
The last moment of his life came.
The beyond anxiously awaited to receive him into
Its eternal embrace.

He was terrified!

He asked for some more time. 
He wished...

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Categories: terrified, death, judgement, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Voices In My Head
I see things in my dreams
Aliens then screams
Government, terrorists, spies
Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, lies
They are coming in my sleep
I can’t scream, not a peep
Fireants in my...

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Categories: terrified, crazy, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: terrified, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: terrified, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Vicious, Is the Unwelcomed Stranger
Conclusive is the board meeting by death’s merchants in Wuhan
the planet is rich, now placed in a temporary ban.
Grey hair is condemned in the statistics...

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Categories: terrified, anxiety, bereavement, death, earth,
Form: Couplet
Paranoid Love
Tell me that this fear is just paranoia in my mind, 
we're not straining, we're not struggling, 
we're not sinking, we're just fine. 
I'm not...

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Categories: terrified, absence, angst, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Haunted Beauty -
The family had just moved into an old castle in Scotland; 
mother, father and their only daughter, Emmie, that they loved so deeply. 
Emmie was...

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Categories: terrified, art, dark, fear, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Moonless Nights Over South Sudan
Moonless Nights over South Sudan

heartless Moon, don’t tell me
that you weren’t looking 
when soulless soldiers dragged me
from my mama’s terrified arms
in our village in Rubkona...

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Categories: terrified, africa, children, grief, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: terrified, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Monday
"Monday Dreadful Monday"

Most people are terrified of its presence
Only this moment can be the most hated
No more time for r&r....that's reefer and rum
Damn it....if he...

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Categories: terrified, america, anger, art, crazy,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Baron Frankenstein's Halloween Ball
Baron Von Frankenstein sent me, an invitation to the ball
To be held on Hallows Eve, at his castle in the great hall
I had nothing planned...

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Categories: terrified, halloween, horror, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Not Even Close
A musical throng of 400,000 strong invaded a dairy farm in New York in 1969,
 which set fire to the 70’s; but there was no...

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Categories: terrified, growing up, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Heard Our Mama Pray
Summer 1967
                       ...

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Categories: terrified, miracle,
Form: Rhyme
These Nightmares Feel Real
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...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: terrified, dream, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

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