Horror Poems - Examples of all types of horror 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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A Wider Beam
Night after night, images flicker on the tube
Horrific images of ‘the enemy’ dying
Dying ‘Agent-Orange’ deaths
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Categories:
death, history, horror, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
horror,
Form: Haiku
Humanity Is No MoreAtomic bombs are dropped on babies
Humanity is thrown out of the door
Humanity is dead. Humanity is no more
There are too many aggressive and demoniac atrocities
Wars are heartless, bestial, perilous, satanic and deadly
The hypocrisy is clearly...
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Categories:
bullying, discrimination, fate, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Ghost Stories: COMPLETED[Fiction Out West]
A mining town, among others, had been shut down the longest. Long before the mines closed, and all the towns followed. As the story goes; one night, a 10-year-old boy walks into a...
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Categories:
child, death, horror, mother
Form: Other
Basket CaseA waste paper basket, a trash can, a bin
Whatever you call it, some things won’t stay in
The things that you write
Long into the night
May make, when discarded… one hell of a din
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Don’t write by moonlight...
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Categories:
horror, writing,
Form: Limerick
Last Moment Of PompeiiSweet moment recall
Laughter behind porticos
During Pompeii's fall....
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Categories:
history, horror, people, places,
Form: Haiku
Resonance An American SonnetThe resonance of the old vampire’s voice
holds the soul of the French Quarter;
Thick as a rich pot of red beans and rice
just waiting to be devoured;
You can hear the succulent sound of jazz
in...
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Categories:
dark, emotions, feelings, horror,
Form: Sonnet
House by The Railroad, 1925 by Edward Hopper 1301"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of...
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Categories:
horror,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Witching HourDeath,
you're freed;
With one taste
define nightlife;
Now I will take you,
drip for me as I taste
and then erase your anguish;
Give yourself to the Witching hour;
Strawberries decadent in moonlight,
it was not the apple that Eve...
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Categories:
horror, creation, dark, death, emotions,
Form: Etheree
The Night Ghost Of Bed
I felt the weight on the covers press down
under nothing but darkness
with nothing but something beside me
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Categories:
dark, fear, horror, night,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
anti bullying, crazy, horror,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Hypocrite
The Hypocrite
The Doubter hides behind religious guise,
Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies.
His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile,
Espousing, “Darkness must be exposed by light”, all the while.
Release the...
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Categories:
horror, anti bullying, bullying, christian,
Form: Free verse
Shattered DesiresThere was this guy, see,
a high-flyer type,
made a bit of a name for himself.
He moved in like a year before, you know, started off slow.
He ended up going crazy for the...
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Categories:
dark, evil, horror, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Revenge is SweetThe bullying and bruising
Went on and on for years,
'Til the time had come
They'd atone for her tears
Aimed at those people
The cruel and the two-faced,
For revenge is sweet ...
And she wanted a taste
If only they'd...
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Categories:
horror, anti bullying, bullying, change,
Form: Rhyme
Eerily Goes Nightwho then rings
thy solitary bell
whose voice cuts through
the mist
and lowly darkness
winter’s eve
there far off
screaming fox
when unseen eyes
then look upon
from trees that hide
in cloak
and footsteps
cast a moments chill
in nights a’slashing
throat
...
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Categories:
dark, fear, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Horror Poems
Definition | What is Horror in Poetry?
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