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Fear Poems | Examples of Fear Poetry

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 short, long, best, and famous poem examples for fear.
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...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, fear, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Room 101
As 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......Read the rest...
Categories: fear, abuse, age, angst, care,
Form: Free verse
Saint Catherine Was Excalibur
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: fear, adventure, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form: Epic
No One Is Looking
Cadence 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...Read the rest...
Categories: fear, art, beautiful, beauty, class,
Form: Sonnet



After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race
After 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: fear, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 ...Read the rest...
Categories: addiction, allusion, fear, forgiveness,
Form: Suzette Prime
Agnostic Nightmare
The fear of God is not as threatening As the fear — he might not be (Augustinian Graveyard: July, 2024) ...Read the rest...
Categories: fear, god,
Form: Free verse
What If
When love one get sick It's sigh of fear and regret What if something hap....Read the rest...
Categories: discrimination, fear, perspective, sick,
Form: Senryu
Inner Fear
I haven't had this Fear before; it's fear that is Unknown; it's inner....Read the rest...
Categories: fear, feelings, mystery, perspective,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member A Frightful Buffet
Miss 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...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, celebration, fantasy, fear,
Form: Couplet
The Girl Who Vanished
Deep 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...Read the rest...
Categories: daughter, death, fear, hate,
Form: Rhyme
My biggest fear
My 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....Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, fear, i love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kids See Ghosts
What 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...Read the rest...
Categories: child, confidence, fear, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Snowy Festivity
April 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...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, fear, nature, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Fear Poems

Definition | What is Fear in Poetry?


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