Fear Poems - Examples of all types of fear poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Creatures
In the shadows they lurk and in the light of the moon they hide, clock strikes 12 and in caves they dwell the streets they play scratching upon the graves. These ghastly ghouls or monsters...
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Categories:
dark, fear, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse
A BUOYANT FEEL
The wind cold and cutting,
The rain razor sharp,
A lonely Willow tree drips sadly on a
Bench in the park,
The sky dances with flashing lightening,
My heart pounds as nature’s power
Begins unleashing
Thunder so frightening,
Its raw...
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Categories:
fear,
Form: Rhyme
Room 101As I'm sweeping the shadows of questions affecting others,
If I pay the toll taking another's,
the faint blanketing, for this is my turn upon entering
Light blinding horrors,
awaiting annihilation
For that, I must have not fallen in line......
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Categories:
fear, abuse, age, angst, care,
Form: Free verse
Saint Catherine Was ExcaliburI always said tether to the void
Not any idealistic reason or choice
Now suspended I know why I’ve been devoid
Because how can one speak with an inside voice
Where no one can hear you outside yourself
Dawn of...
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Categories:
fear, adventure, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form: Epic
No One Is LookingCadence lowers its tenebrous tempo
Dulcet to a morose Memento Mori-bund
Lachrymose ribbon garnet fountain
Ruby rivulets in wine glass Chardonnay
Bubble floats to pop
Silence yet I sway
Miasma tang vitae oh Nueva
So they swing on a rope seputchra
Momma Mia...
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Categories:
fear, art, beautiful, beauty, class,
Form: Sonnet
After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential raceAfter President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race...
Planet earth (the Mother of all)
breathed a collective
and palpable sigh of relief,
and I too deeply exhaled,
a foregone conclusion staved off
today July 21st, 2024,
whereat the audacious,
contumacious,...
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Categories:
fear, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Cold Comfort
I drink
myself dumb
grief is a cold rock
ice melts in a glass like stones
neither my life nor your absinthe have been neat
...
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Categories:
addiction, allusion, fear, forgiveness,
Form: Suzette Prime
Agnostic NightmareThe fear of God
is not as threatening
As the fear
— he might not be
(Augustinian Graveyard: July, 2024)
...
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Categories:
fear, god,
Form: Free verse
What IfWhen love one get sick
It's sigh of fear and regret
What if something hap....
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Categories:
discrimination, fear, perspective, sick,
Form: Senryu
Inner FearI haven't had this
Fear before; it's fear that is
Unknown; it's inner....
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Categories:
fear, feelings, mystery, perspective,
Form: Senryu
A Frightful BuffetMiss Muffet was a girl of thirteen, filled with youth's beauty and charm;
And a love of vibrant life zealous, like eager, vivid thunder of blue alarm.
She was a fine student, pert and popular; like the...
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Categories:
beautiful, celebration, fantasy, fear,
Form: Couplet
The Girl Who VanishedDeep beneath the old oak tree
Past the backyard swing I oversee
A land so baron, where nothing grows
The land I can feel, it somehow knows
What's been buried there by one so cold
May his conscience plague him...
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Categories:
daughter, death, fear, hate,
Form: Rhyme
My biggest fearMy biggest fear is you disappearing from me
Fear.
Noun
an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
Fear can come crashing down like a tsunami....
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Categories:
anxiety, fear, i love
Form: Free verse
Kids See GhostsWhat if ghosts aren’t the apparitions that give us chills
Maybe they are the purest form of self
Maybe that’s why we see them with fearful eyes
We’re too afraid to be ourselves
So, we exist in the matrix...
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Categories:
child, confidence, fear, love,
Form: Free verse
A Snowy FestivityApril decorates emerald Nature
with an unexpected snowy festivity
that resembles a season so wintry;
will the warm snow drift offshore?
it's a big thrill at the start of this awaited spring,
will it kill all the little buds that...
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Categories:
anxiety, fear, nature, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Fear Poems
Definition | What is Fear in Poetry?
Poems Related to Fear
dismay, anxiety, angst, horror, unease, jitters, doubt, suspicion, dread, despair, terror, uneasiness, panic, scare, worry, concern, cowardice, phobia, distress, fright, agitation, foreboding, faintheartedness, nightmare, revulsion