Spooky Halloween Poems | Examples

These Spooky Halloween poems are examples of Halloween poems about Spooky. These are the best examples of Halloween Spooky poems written by international poets.


Premium Memberharvest Halloween

harvest Halloween
cemetery crypt
violent vampire
tightly wrapped mummy
cat and dog costumes

trick or treaters
super heroes
crowned princesses
spooky shadows

monster night
have a fright

goblin
ghoul

ghost


Premium MemberMy Uber Ride

my undependable jalopy broke down on Halloween night
on a dark spooky road with nary a sliver of light
I got on my phone and called an Uber, hoping one was near
pretty soon a loud knock on my window I hear

It was a black cat riding a tiny broom
I have come to give you a ride, she said, and soon
I have a tight schedule, so come on, my dear
But I did not fit, because I have a corpulent rear

Premium Memberspooky creepy shrunken heads

that shrunken head has the angriest eyes, I said.
Is it because he is dead? Because he is dead?
No, that one is Fred. He’s always been mad.
Maybe he’s sad, I suggested, maybe he’s sad.

Fred glared at me and stuck out his tongue.
Another head threw snot my way, not to be outdone.
Why do you keep these? I asked my friend Shay.
They creep me out but keep salesmen away.

Premium Memberspooky girls three

spooky girls three went everywhere together
in rain, sleet or snow, any kind of Midwest weather
they were named Hortense, Helena and Holly Heather
Sisters? We were unsure, said my brother, Merriweather.

Almost acting as if cojoined, these three were rather creepy,
If one cried, the other two wailed and got unbelievably weepy.
They liked October, it seemed to be their favorite month of all.
I always got frightened when they appeared in the fall.

They transmogrified out of mushrooms or tree stumps or moss.
Appearing before our eyes, it was weird, said my cousin Hoss.
spooky girls three sometimes put spells on us too.
This is how they banished our friend Linda Sue Lou.

Premium MemberHow do you score on the fear-o-meter?

Hallow's Eve here upon us
A specially eerie full moon spooky night
Not for faint of heart



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025


Premium MemberCosmic Planet Pumpkin on Halloween

Orange pumpkins glow so cute
Making children smile in spacesuits
Halloween pumpkins filled with candy
A cosmic stash, so handy-dandy

Each planetary pumpkin has a special face
That beams like stars in aerospace
Each one has a candle inside
Its galactic shimmer is big and wide-eyed

The nose is shaped like a triangle
Without airlocks to be entangled
The mouth may curve in spooky shapes
From every smile, light escapes

A dreamscape shines for starry-eyed kids
Enchanted by secrets the Cosmos forbids.

Premium MemberHaunted House

A Spooky Haunted Poem 8-12 lines of rhyme Poetry Contest
Tania Kitchin

As Halloween cuts through the night
Ghosts, goblins, and bats take flight
From the darkness of the skies
To a chilling house filled with cries
Waxed figures of humans unite
Frankenstein stands with his sprite
Inside the house, a skeleton's teeth chatter
A human's head is found on a platter
Spiders, rats, and black cats look at dinner
Haunted are those who are not a sinner
As the cries shake the haunted house
Frankenstein is looking for another spouse

Premium MemberKickstarted

Around this time of year 
the cats play with the ghosts. 
Wondering what they see
you watch them, curious.
Tails bolt frantically. 

Around this time of year 
floors creak more than normal,
it makes you pause mid-step.
A glass may hit the floor, 
sometimes you cannot prep. 

Around this time of year 
soft wind whistles a tune.
That sense of foreboding 
saved for spooky season,
the song’s quiet in June. 

Around this time of year 
pumpkins will don a mask. 
They guide the departed
while warding off evil. 
Halloween kickstarted.

Premium MemberCandy


Coated from fine sugar 
Crackling joy on taste buds ,
Comes in hard or fudge rolls
Cravings peak like tonight
Children's Hallow beguiles
Crazed by spooky magic --
Candy love , you're a treat!

Premium MemberSpooky the Night

Spooky the night; 
Ghosts are even contrite
Continually drifting round the hound. 
Pumpkins have found 
A dark body to walk them around 
While monsters walk the streets. 
The pounding of the brisk wind beats. 
Frighten Cuckoo bird under a nightshade hood. 
Red eyes hover round the woods.
Bats fly round, waking the dead. 
Soil moves, while coffins slowly open, 
Close, and reopen, 
Disturbing the living dead, 
Their shaking hands with dread. 
Come now. 
Come now. 
There is extra room. 
The witch on the broom 
Is waiting for her groom 
As spiders thread 
A large web for their bed.


1/4/2025
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.

Premium MemberCeltic Hallows

Near our late year approach,  A Celtic feast and festivities, around a wood blaze Hoge. On the first of the eleventh month, wine and beer by the barrel is sunk, and merrily a few of many will start their new year drunk.

Cloaked attire to scare off and warn, unwanted spirits of all shapes or form.
Children's songs they sing in rhyme, All Hallows Eve! do they shriek out and cry.

Markings drawn door to door, Candlesticks and spooky shrines.
what began as once a feared holiday
now for so many a celebratory time.

Premium MemberHell Cat Queen

Hell Cat Queen Oh, Mayling Lou dearest, my heart’s elation On Halloween you’ll be a possessed abomination Neither purr nor mew pussyfooting Boo! You are tonight’s sweet spooky sensation! ‘Tis you I love kitty, dark Mayling Lou Your surreptitious sly purrs make a goddess of you But come Halloween You’re my hell cat queen Your love and friendship I both cherish and rue
by Robert Gorelick
I love you too, but tonight is the night I sit on a broomstick, holding on tight Flying behind a witch To satisfy an itch Don’t wait up, hell cat’s gonna be alright
by Beryl Edmunds

Premium MemberHalloween spoof

Three goofballs in spooky display,
One with hat, other's fangs on play!
With faces askew,
They jump out and boo,
Scaring  laughs than fear on the way!
© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.

Premium MemberHalloween Trick or Treats

full moon on hallow's eve
ghosts and goblins
will be trick or treating
for bags and bags of candy
toffee apples on sticks
enough sweets to rot their teeth

children roam the streets
as costumed munchkins
looking for yummy treats
darkness filled with characters
older kids dressed up wild
ranging from devils to angels

spooky pumpkins
carved with care
eerie sounds from coffins
in the dead of night
creaking doors and then
the graveyard comes to life



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium MemberThree Boys


Three boys – Paisley, Preston, and Pooky -
had tried to make Halloween spooky.
Paisley practiced black magic.
Toothless Preston was tragic;
but Pooky, bug-eyed, was just kooky.

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