Best Terrors Poems

Lay your head beside mine if you dare and enter the world of my nightmare.  A long hall 
before you is lined by many doors, and opening each one exposes terrifying horrors.  
Unlock the first and see the cemetery where so many ancestors...

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How silly for me to fear going to sleep
when I need sleep so much.
The intensity of fearful thoughts 
consumes me, and I just can't sleep.
When pure exhaustion overcomes me 
I drift off and pray that this night 
will be different....will be night terror free.
Free from...

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Paralyzed
Silenced
Stalked
Invaded
All of this
My mind
Created...

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(TO THE VICTIMS OF WAR IN MY NATIVE
 CAMEROON AND IN NORTHERN NIGERIA)

Giants 
Have filled 
The FAR North
Sweeping
Bloodbathing 
With sophisticated 
Heavy weapons
Connected on a 
Barren land
Communicating
As from satellites,
Techniques and
Outfits of
The expedition
They got THERE
Thundering, 
Murdering, 
Raping, and 
Reaping
The scarce 
Bank notes kept aside 
To launch our...

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I slumber, I sleep, so deep and oh so long
I feel a force pulling me down, down, something's wrong.
Its dark, as dark as pitch but strangely I still can see,
shadows pass, I'm scared, the faint light calls to me.

I'm being pursued and I know not...

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Restless sleep triggers delusional dreams,
that your beleaguered brain surrenders to.
And from night terrors, you awake to screams
for it feels so real; you think it's true
that spectral shadows are pursuing you;
and powerless, there's nothing you can do.

Though safe in bed, you feel you're in peril,
unable to...

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i never had night terrors,
but i know a guy that did.
he used to go outside at night
and scream that the elephants
were coming.



now the elephants were bigger than me.
this i knew, and it was that that i felt
when i was awoken, and realized what he was...

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THE BOOGEYMAN WILL GET YOU-LOOK OUT!!
They have said that to me ever since I was a wee boy
Lurking under the sheets,in the closet,behind one's back
Especially at night when we are susceptible to  the vivid
imaginations of our peers' taunting ravings of Unmentionable
crawlers of the dark...

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Why can’t I sleep, when will this end, this up all nights, becoming a trend, I can’t switch off, my head is full, my lights are out, my room is dull, there’s not much noise, my comfy bed, these nasty voices, inside my head, they...

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The dishes in the sink rattle loudly
The wind howling like the grey wolf
The floors creaking when no one's there
The lights begin to flicker
The shadows move about
Shivers run through me
Someone's watching
The door cracks
Haunted
Night...

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Used and abused 
Lies and misused
I'm sick of the person I've become
So sick of all of the wrong that I have done 
Change is something 
I strive for everyday
But it's so hard
The abuse keeps the pain away 
So I stay at bay to keep the...

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In the pitch darkness of the night
Where nightmares come to fright and haunt
I lie awake my heart in flight
In the pitch darkness of the night
Praying, pleading, for morning light
When fearsome terrors cease to taunt
In the pitch darkness of the night
Where nightmares come to fright and...

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if i learnt one thing from my dream last night ~ never pick up small spiders 


By
David Kavanagh...

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Night Terrors

It sits hiding in the deep recesses of the mind, waiting in the dark for the moment when it can attack. Riding upon the winged beasts of the night, bringing horrors untold to those unaware of their intent. Asleep and unable to defend one’s...

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NIGHT TERRORS

When distant  daylight  is spent and spilled,
My lamp alone lights the curtained darkness
Of unseen fear,   which has always filled
The weary black pit yawning endless

Into the night;  and all the unknown
Terrors of the dreamworld
Conspire to extinguish my lamp lone
When the...

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