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Scariness Poems - Poems about Scariness

Black Umbrella Afternoon

...Scary people are everywhere
weaving through backbones of rain-soaked roads
taillight burning A holes in my balding white walls.
Scary people in endless grocery store lines
carts filled with poiso...

Categories: scariness, life,
Form: Free verse

Waterhouse Residence

...she was a ramshackle, eyesore of a house
Uneven, unsymmetrical, with a plethora of problems
One bright red door made the rest of this mess glaringly sad
And yet, there was a whimsical feeling abou...

Categories: scariness, house,
Form: Free verse

I Live Under the Bed

...I live under the bed
Sleep with the “dust kittens”
I guess I appear scary
To the children
When they catch a glimpse of me.
Not my fault!!
Every time I come out
From under the bed
The “dust Ki...

Categories: scariness, children, scary,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Gargoyle Greets Kindergarten Class

...a giant genuine gargoyle greets you said the gothic cathedral host.
as if this terrifying statue of scariness is a good thing of which to boast.
the kindergarteners were screaming as they got off t...

Categories: scariness, teacher,
Form: Rhyme

One Scary Halloween

...The faces of parents revealed not a worry; not a care.
Kids walked alone, not for tricks, but for treats.
No child was worried about the candy eats.
All that mattered was that the candy was sweet....

Categories: scariness, halloween,
Form: Verse

It Was Scary

..."I knew that God was with me, but yet I was afraid and feared evil".                                                         by Poet

My personal experience has taught me to face my fears.         ...

Categories: scariness, dog, fear,
Form: Narrative

Much More Than a Dream

...It came in with a flash
Lighting up the Sahara Desert
Most of my troop was asleep

I had a precognitive feeling 
Sat up and starred to the east
My pal Hal’s mouth was loudly snoring

Space tr...

Categories: scariness, science fiction,
Form: Prose Poetry

Polite Ghosts On a Clothesline

...Polite ghosts pinned on a clothesline,
Dancing daintily in the breeze.
Using please and thank you
Practicing manners with much ease

Respecting each other’s ideas
Without a bully or a tease,
T...

Categories: scariness, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Spouse Sports Unbridled Consummate Gluttonous Appetite Serving Second

...scariness), which ill affords this unlucky husband 
to maximize tasting, savoring and relishing every 
sacred moment lest any given instantaneous moment 
find me in dire circumstantial straitjacke...

Categories: scariness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

The Second Child

...The newborn baby,The Second Child
In the Home which just turned four had arrived
and that girls life of three already there
didn't make her approve of 
His sudden appear.

Of how was the attent...

Categories: scariness, birth, mom, mother, mother
Form: I do not know?

Paranoia Is Your Prize

...Like some grinning mad ghost scratching at the side door of your senses
Begging to come inside to bring you wrath and wickedness
Bringing cold where it's warm
Bringing scariness where it's safe an...

Categories: scariness, death, depression,
Form: Blank verse

Misfit

...All that ever remains
Nothing more than simply a self to be
If even time is never the same
Simply nothing more is a self to see

And I’m to experience
A misfit amongst body and soul
Sharing within......

Categories: scariness, life, self, self,
Form: Rhyme

Spirit Catcher

...Come to me by moonlight on All Hallow's Eve
rise up from the grave and let your spirit raise
coat me with frost breath, sing to me your boos
I am hungry for the past days of scariness and fools.
...

Categories: scariness, holidayme, me, planet,
Form: Free verse