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Poltergeists Poems - Poems about Poltergeists

Premium MemberMinor Poltergeists

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I move through rooms,
quiet weather
changing air, its pressure.
One drawer sticks.
Light bulbs dim faster
when I’m thinking too loud.

The milk spoils early when I’m angry.
Doors swell shut...
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Categories: poltergeists, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Real Monsters

...The Real Monsters

We are afraid of fire breathing dragons and scaly lizards.
Things that go bump in the night. Shadow creatures
who live under our beds and in our closets. Yeti
and Big Foot. Pa...
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Categories: poltergeists, scary,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPerfect Illusion

...within the oscillation of melting clocks,
our poltergeists of times long expired…still reverberate~
tainted ticking echoing
in an everlasting tug of war,
pushing and pulling,
throwing barbs at b...
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Categories: poltergeists, conflict, dark, gothic, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHaunted House

...I walked in through the creaking door
Blood stains on the hardwood floor
I followed bloody footprints up the stairs
I knew that I had best beware

The house stood empty for twenty years
No one ...
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Categories: poltergeists, horror, house,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSmoldering Men

...Written: October 21, 2023,
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Undressed poltergeists prowl around
a lurch occurring on the ground
people stoked the burning ...
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Categories: poltergeists, analogy, angst, feelings,
Form: Quintilla



Premium MemberMasters of Mayhem

...Written: October 19, 2023, For Tania Kitchen Spooky Halloween Contest

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Hope is buried, gulping Satan of the Night.
Its od...
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Categories: poltergeists, analogy, angst, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEnticing Twilight

...Written: October 10, 2023   
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A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in ...
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Categories: poltergeists, analogy, appreciation, dream, night,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Library

...Among the systematic layout
Atop mirrored polished floors
That reflects the study of light,
Sharply angled shelves shadow symmetry
Like waves of open walls.

Spangled with books from scholars
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Categories: poltergeists, books,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStrange Things Are Happening

...A rustle here,
A rattle there,
A furtive footstep faintly falling on the stair,
And there's nobody rocking in that rocking chair.
Strange things are happening!

An eerie creak,
My knees go wea...
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Categories: poltergeists, halloween,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberA Spooky Speculation

...There are those who think the spirits of loved ones departed
Have moved on to their heavenly reward,
And there are those who think they'd like to, but "cain't"
Because they still need to finish so...
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Categories: poltergeists, halloween, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberGrindhouse Disappointment

...I often wake screaming in the dark from a nightmare, 
The details of which I can never remember.
I feel cheated for having been so terrorized 
By demons that seem beyond my imagining.
I expect be...
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Categories: poltergeists, allegory, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberGhost-Written

...My poems are ghost-written.
I scarcely identify the visitants
Mingling with heedless shadows.

Poltergeists outfit my words.
Though we converse,
I hardly know them,
And seldom fathom
Their pr...
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Categories: poltergeists, metaphor, mystery, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPreparing For Bullies

...Catha’s hair glistened in the Celtic way
Druids would have worshipped her
A sprinkle of cinnamon on her arms
Her face pixie-like and heart shaped
People fell in love with her
Scottish, Irish and...
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Categories: poltergeists, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThose Giggling Christmas Elves

...The elves are fighting over the Christmas bell again.
It is fragile and ringing, underneath my fat chin.
I will wish you a merry Christmas, my darling friend.
Before I clobber those elves. Will th...
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Categories: poltergeists, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

When

...10/28/20
When vampires fly abroad in search of blood
And poltergeists and demons do no good;
When zombies drooling, crawl up from the ground
And ghoulish spirits glide without a sound;
When bats...
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Categories: poltergeists, eve, evil, flying, gothic,
Form: Verse

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