Horror Poems | Examples of Horror Poetry

FRAGILITY Poem written for Body Possession Horror Poetry contest, Micheal Fulkerson, sponsor, 7/22/2025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Locusts serenade me as I rock, suspended, in the soft embrace of my hammock. The air is lovely and eerie, heavy with the ghost of jasmine. But then—a change, a shudder in the atmosphere, a flicker, a spark, a pulse of light, getting brighter, a fiery arc...

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Twisted and taunted, I stood in the wintry path where sparkling silver slivers of mercury searched for their brethren to merge as one. Colder than my path, a clammy cold from the nitrous night, crept through as winter winds coming from the chill of the grave, and blasted me with icy shards, scraping at my bones and freezing my soul. Its harshness racked me as...

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Day 1 I fall—not through space something thinner— like light stretched too far across the skin of a thought I buried years ago The tunnel hums with memory— a child’s scream rising into laughter, the sting of ozone before the storm the flicker between blinks where everything vanishes Darkness Sun blinds— Day 2 The sky is a calm equation— no clouds, no noise, just light folded neatly like fresh hospital sheets The grass soft...

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When the mind slowly decays It doesn’t just affect the mind It affects the body, the spirit, the soul The spiritual horror of psychological torture Is how you treated black people The way you penetrated our minds with accusations of inferiority Treating us less than animals Less than the dirt on your shoes Generation after generation You have tortured my people Psychological...

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There once a place Filled with people from dark side They were cold and unwilling Some unaware life has ended They go here and there Or perhaps beside you In front or at your back Looking at you now Going to forsaken places May lead to a dark path Not aware of what’ll happen Hence will be bewitched...

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Hope barely breathes its chest tight beneath the smoke as grief spreads like fire through streets that once knew laughter. Haiti, now a land of shadows where joy is muffled by gunshots and dreams lie broken on corners no longer safe to dream in. Yet still, the sun dares to rise a quiet defiance in the sky reminding us that even in ruins light remembers...

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7/14/2025 Oh, how could this have ever happened here? A free naton with baseball, movies and beer? Those days when other nations cry against...

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Hell smells on this nice land Land where there is severe killing Killing of innocent people People hating their neighbors Neighbors with grudge Grudge against everything Everything has decayed. Decayed, as morals are in danger Danger of living on this land Land with endless fire Fire from the morning until in the evening Evening, when death squadrons chop and shoot Shoot and set ablaze fellow...

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She knocks on my rib cage seeking access to my heart again The knock—the pounding pestle— taunts, its echo won’t stand to be ignored I hold my knees and cover my ears as if that’ll keep my walls untampered I let my flesh wrap me whole— so tight I might suffocate, but I cannot breathe outside this prison, no—this haven She’s still...

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She walked towards me, I never had a sister by blood. Maybe that was about to change. Blood was all over her as she walked towards me. It seemed like I already knew her. She is from another time, I must have met her somewhere. Familiarity permeated my mind. Blood was all over her, still I wasn’t the least bit fearful. In this moment I’m...

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A treasure untreasured, abandoned and forgot In a darkened closet much like a burial plot Misremembered kisses, hugs no longer felt Twisting into bitterness, where lonesome dwelt Memories wrapped in soft stuffing Threadbare keepsake suffering Cracked plastic smile full of secrets A slow darkening uniqueness Awakened within static button eyes And malevolent intent began to arise Replacing the love long since perished Within the toy once...

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A couple soon to be said newly wed, yet swiftly snuck behind the family’s back to swear the vow inside th’old shack, quick forgot’n, buried a secret dread; A reek awaftin’ out a country shed left long and fast behind by Spring-heeled Jack, the stench o’ rot stinkin’ from a sack discovers a soiled corpse ‘n’a mangled head; Well…, they ‘was a...

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The gossamer on a child’s frame, looked new and ancient, all at once. A ghostly smile, a trick and treat, directed at me. No wrinkles on the hand of time, his godforsaken finger pointed at the stabbed pigeon. I followed the tracks of blood down to the river. I seemed to have no choice, in this misty sequence. A grief-stricken...

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Khaled was a bodybuilding champ in Iran A photo shows a smiling and very strong man Then in Evin Prison, at the mercy of nasty folk His spine fractured, kidneys failed, heart was harmed, leg was broke. Evin is a bad place, 113 degrees and no A.C. I'm sure you can think of better places to be One woman tells us...

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I hear voices in my head, I touch pain On every television Except the typical symbols Of hegemony Except in a white building Miles and miles away, I touch pain! For every leaf that falls, Swallowed by the burning hell From the mighty birds Of weird names F 16, F 35... I hear these voices, We hear these voices - Miles away, node in unison, "The world...

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