Best Terror Poems
Below are the all-time best Terror poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of terror poems written by PoetrySoup members
When I Stop and PrayWhen the storm clouds boil around me,
And the lightning splits the sky--.
When the howling wind assails me,
And life's sea is rolling high--
When my...
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Categories:
terror, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form:
Lyric
Death of the Poet Destroyer~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~
Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...
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Categories:
terror, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form:
Ballad
My Heart Will Go On - POTDPOTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...
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Categories:
terror, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
In the Sun's Last GlowOn her terrace where she once had viewed a crimson field,
she stands recalling heroes who were battling their foe.
She still can feel the terror! How...
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Categories:
terror, heart, lost love, may,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Nameless
“I cannot give a name to pain I’ve never known.” - by poet
What do I know of sadness
when it’s grief that is profound?
The misery of...
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Categories:
terror, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
terror, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
Because I Love YouI saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,
And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.
I heard the howling
Of...
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Categories:
terror, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form:
Free verse
This Was Meit began so innocently
we exchanged ideas on poetry
his art, the suffering he endured
he preyed upon my compassion
as he meticulously bided his time...
i felt safe as...
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Categories:
terror, angst, confusion, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
Poetry PillarWhen Light needed a body to behold, and color to kiss,
as Darkness dreamnt to die in the dawn of depth,
when Soul lustered to lust for...
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Categories:
terror, beauty, creation, desire, love,
Form:
Ode
Silent InflictionsChildhood is a ship,
preparing to set sail,
but not all harbors are kind
the ocean a mysterious enigma.
Not all inflictions are visible,
some bruises remain invisible.
Not all trauma...
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Categories:
terror, analogy, childhood, emotions, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
Threshold of MadnessThe cold hand of Winter swiftly approaches
Its breath etches frost on my windowpanes
Nearer my threshold, Death now encroaches
Blood is slowly chilling inside my...
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Categories:
terror, death, fear,
Form:
Terzanelle
The Wounds of WarDear Mother, should my footsteps never tread
The pathway which would lead to your embrace,
Know this, though many words were left unsaid,
Your love has pierced the...
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Categories:
terror, fear, love, mother, war,
Form:
Sonnet
The HauntingCold, so cold, as everything seems to enshroud me
encasing light, the flame of life - darkness within.
Slivers of blue, ice my lips, like a...
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Categories:
terror, horror,
Form:
Narrative
The BattleThe menace of war in the chaos of life
The peril of ocean when tempests are rife;
The danger of jungle where feral beasts hide
The terror that...
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Categories:
terror, love, woman, love, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh JerusalemRemember
Israel of three thousand years
expulsed at times
enslaved by the Romans
gassed by Europe
persecuted by Saudi-Arabia
murdered by Iran and Iraq
shackled by Egypt
attacked by Jordan
robbed by Syria
sold out...
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Categories:
terror, allah, bible, god, gospel,
Form:
Free verse