Horror Poems | Examples of Horror Poetry

I took up the call The command was made Placed the receiver down Hardened my resolve Steadying my shivering nerves I picked up the gun Shot at the innocent man He fell with a thud Blood spurted from his chest With my descent into...Read the rest...

2025’s manuscript Tips off the rip-offs as we’re gypped! When oligarchs die They'll not greed deny But flip us the bird from their crypt...Read the rest...

I saw a storm of Ice and Stone Curling North the footed hill From which grows the cold and bone Beholden to whom the beggars kill. The ashen clouds above the alabaster- A sieve to the dense and wet- Hurls itself...Read the rest...

Whispers of fingers an apparitions touch took residence inside my mirrored bones frantic rationale is a skeletal destination crunchy landing of hard fossil dust This sad beast of remains stands low in the sag dry tears of sand drips...Read the rest...

A gentle wave from curling leaf watches in weakness. Green slips from shore, a purchased release. Tender roots wash with shuttered sounds. Steals foundation to a diminished, poison grip. Inundate with modern gift's inevitable disguise. The last...Read the rest...

Perfidious tied the knot with Insidious Offspring, twins ~ Hideous & Invidious ...Read the rest...

you … found your way in - a keyhole that I had left unguarded squeezing through with fiery wings folded like leaves I should’ve seen it coming but your “goodbye” had been such a jagged edge and seemed so … determinate I knew what...Read the rest...

Buckets of rain, boisterous as thunder, wrecked September’s farewell, flooding the mountains, the hills, the rivers and creeks. Wild and livid, coloring the air in streaming tears, erasing the faintest feel of a hopeful prayer....Read the rest...

Stars sparkle in the black velvet sky Lit with orange and red Meteor appears as a shooting star A bright streak of light Across the heavens The moon, a lovely crescent A midnight gust blows overhead The darkest...Read the rest...

The stretch of death and decay blows in from the north, As centuries turn to dust. Darkness engulfs barren carcasses of what was, forlorn rain drips from the weeping sky, coating every strand of my auburn hair, Weighing it down...Read the rest...

I often ponder about the perpetuous anathema in my household, because growing up, that abominable behavior was quite normalized. I’ve always heard derogatory, disrespectful remarks or comments, God, they’re so standardized; my conception was that being...Read the rest...

How could a corpse like me ask for more Than this faucet from the showroom floor It may look a dud But it cleans off blood And came dirt cheap from the Zombie Store ...Read the rest...

{"We sat in the veneer of our chimney that wasn’t infinite. Eyes sealed, inhaling and exhaling the smoke. It was alluring to witness, to sense the crackling of melancholy of the conflagration. The smoke conveyed...Read the rest...

Have you not heard of the legend of Terror Turkey Tom? Who roams the woods punishing those who do Thanksgiving wrong? The bird with an unending hate for those folks that he sees putting up their Christmas décor exceedingly early. None now how...Read the rest...

I breathe; I think; I slumber and I wake I feel; I hear; I scream for pity’s sake I push; I shove with little left to give But six feet neath new fallen leaves, I live I breathe the...Read the rest...