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Scary Poems | Examples of Scary Poetry

Fire
a r~a~g~i~n~g beast that r~o~a~r~e~d loud through dry grasslands e~m~b~l~a~z~o~n~e~d just like sunlight rays in forested ~s~e~a~s~ a glowing friend who radiates love's embrace a relentless enemy that rides on a wild horse a beacon of hope that beams brilliant stories ...

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Categories: scary, blue, dark, fire, friend,
Form: Other
Don't be scary
She had black lipstick stains on her cigarettes. A broken doll with eyes like the abyss. Two barcodes hanging on to both wrists. She said wait right here your really going to love this. She bit my neck, blood draining from her lips. A pair of fish net tights stuffed into both slits. Then she went down, and I went down. She...

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Categories: scary, dark, emo, evil, gothic,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Breathless, I can't Breathe
Breathe in, Breathe out. Breathe in, Breathe out. Help Me! I can't breathe! I can't catch my breath! I'm gonna die! Luckily a friend close by, gently caught my arm and said: Calm Down! Calm Down! You're panicking! It's not the in, It's the out! You're brimming breathless! You've forgotten to breathe out, desperately clutching on, to what you have. You're holding on, too...

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Categories: body, recovery from, scary,
Form: Free verse
JUSTICE
Is this really worth it To be a woman in a country like this Where we are forced to shut our scream How will any girl see any dream Multiple cases of assault and rape But still many say it's all fake Is there any more way to gain your trust Many lost their lives..is it really worth The scars which u...

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Categories: scary, abuse, dark, lust, mental
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Hiding Alone
I always wanted my own dog. Someone to sit under the table with me. Fuzzy warm animal to hug, When too much shouting from above. "You can't have a dog! Too many fleas, Ticks you may not see! ...

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Categories: scary, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme



Halloween
One day at a haunted house.... You'll never guess what I saw!!! Well, it was a great big ghost... Coming out of the wall! The ghost just stared at me... So I stared at it too.. And I thought..."This just couldn't be?!!" Until that ghost yelled BOO!! After it yelled BOO! at me! I ran all the way up the stairs! And guess what else...."I...

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Categories: scary, confusion, cry, halloween, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Body Possession Horror
It started as a whisper, faint, A voice that slithered through my brain. Not my own, but just as clear, A presence lurking ever near. At first, a shudder down my spine, A fleeting thought that wasn’t mine. Hands that moved without command, Footsteps shifting in the sand....

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Categories: scary, confusion, dark, deep, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Incarnate
Bloodlet me, my precious You can make this my willing sacrifice To cure me of impurity, of sickness. Cut gashes into my face. Discard chunks of my body. These cliffs into my mind, Scars of unhealing, they save me. Blotch my red everywhere. Nobody wants my stained mind, but you— You save all the sympathy— Iridescent, darling, could you ever understand? Can't you see, I want to...

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Categories: scary, abuse, imagination, longing, lust,
Form: Free verse
Damnation
Farther and farther you go I hope you dig yourself a grave Buried and no way out Without a coffin so I can watch you choke On your sins you have made, I hope karma comes and spits on your name We were once family now I tear the title from the frames Deeper and deeper you dig You think you can get...

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Categories: scary, anger, betrayal, brother, evil,
Form: Free verse
Runner
b a n g b a n g! I couldn't believe I just fired some shots there she laid... belly up counting the dust dead as loneliness buried in silence trouble b o l d l y stared straight at me my stomach growled, loosened a knot~ sweat...

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Categories: scary, death, immigration, loneliness, murder,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Trick Of Time
To live in the past must be scary a bit Like you open the novel you’ve read And it’s not quite the same what now you reread What you have thought, felt and said Seems distorted by memory, you ask yourself why Should it continue like fictional Though the fiction it’s not, but your own past time Behaves in some way unpredictable It's...

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Categories: scary, longing, philosophy, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THE NEW GARDEN
THE NEW GARDEN Another Eden, political fruits hanging; harvesters, greedy:- ...

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Categories: scary, allegory, america, analogy, deep,
Form: Haiku
The Outdoors
The outdoors. Underground is where they live. We walk mostly above ground. We see flowers and walk on the trails. The outdoors. There are snakes but they get out of our way. Trees fall down mysteriously. They say it’s natural. The outdoors. The busy road does exist in the background. I cross streets and bridges...

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Categories: scary,
Form: Free verse
Impotency
Not the truth of hierarchy I loved the lie of life Naked truth kills the humanity of falsehood There is no religion Death is the peace of heaven Holy ground or the barbaric war There is a tomb of screaming Blind I see much Deaf or dumb I speak much No human is important But God or imaginative prophecy makes an impotent world ©Mahtab Bangalee/2025_April...

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Categories: rude, scary, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Look on the Bright Side
My wife picked up the phone and called her friend Lucy Said we'll be in your haunts, we're coming to D.C. "We found a hotel in Largo, it has a large pool It will take our dog, and the kids don't have school." Lucy replied "Largo hotels shelter many an illegal "I suppose you picked it because it will allow...

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Categories: scary, america, cheer up, culture,
Form: Lyric

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