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Scary Poems | Examples of Scary Poetry

Scary Poems - Examples of all types of scary poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for scary.
Creatures
In the shadows they lurk and in the light of the moon they hide, clock strikes 12 and in caves they dwell the streets they play scratching upon the graves. These ghastly ghouls or monsters...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, dark, fear, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse



Death Knelt
In the cartographies merger with the soul, where topographies bring thought converge, a hidden rose blooms, its petals unfolding, like a cipher's dark emerge, thorns burst contradiction piercing the hymen with certitude, as the benthic depths, a chthonic whisper, exhale the secrets unsaid...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, art, crazy, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Saint Catherine Was Excalibur
I always said tether to the void Not any idealistic reason or choice Now suspended I know why I’ve been devoid Because how can one speak with an inside voice Where no one can hear you outside yourself Dawn of...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, adventure, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form: Epic
No One Is Looking
Cadence lowers its tenebrous tempo Dulcet to a morose Memento Mori-bund Lachrymose ribbon garnet fountain Ruby rivulets in wine glass Chardonnay Bubble floats to pop Silence yet I sway Miasma tang vitae oh Nueva So they swing on a rope seputchra Momma Mia...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, art, beautiful, beauty, class,
Form: Sonnet
Torn being
Dark clouds hang over space With a heavy head , I sit desolate A passer-by can tell by my stance Or by a mere gaze at my face That I have been beaten by the seasons I bow my...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, anxiety, death, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member One For Mulder and Scully
Dazzling, synthetic lights emanate from polished silver, Penetrating my deep, chemically induced sleep. Blinking sensitive eyes, I raise my swirling head. I sit up and walk into a corridor of glass display cases. Rustic farm...Read the rest...
Categories: mystery, psychological, scary, science,
Form: Free verse
End Times
End times is very Scary, like you never Dreamt a dream before....Read the rest...
Categories: future, judgement, perspective, scary,
Form: Senryu
Ash
Your eyes once struck like lightning Down winded limbs Splayed out And sparkling From just a flash Now you look like charcoal bones And boiled veins And lungs Of skin That's burned to ash...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, analogy, boy, for him,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Fairly Scary Ghostly Host
a creak, an eek and eery melt in darkness subtle shimmer felt berroling, droom in shadow dealt tip-tipping softly shooming out a ghost that leaked and trickled through the walls with leeg and gentle woo a seep and freep from...Read the rest...
Categories: fun, nonsense, scary,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Ravenous Witch
the ravenous witch famished with greed tummied and toothed in scoops could she eat pickles and pockles and piggy trough trays gorging, gullooging and munching for days she went picking parcels and morsels of stuff jiggleberries, hockleberries but never enough apples and hopples pebbles and pears the horribliest fruit even...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, fun, funny, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse
SCARY TIME
SCARY TIME It’s an earthquake tremor Could it be that the world is coming to an end Dilemma The forecast lied Hunker down in safety, my friend Inside Oh Wow Is this a trend Now It’s an earthquake tremor Hunker down in safety, my friend Now ...Read the rest...
Categories: earth day, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member TANGERINE CHEVY
Remember when we walked to school? Remember when we thought we were cool? We were good friends in those years Our laughter overcame any fears We were young, we were pure We were safe, we were sure Nothing could hurt us No...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, 4th grade, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Overgrown Track
There's an overgrown track partially hoggled and hooned where a wizened old hagglefud made spells and priffoond a great many years ago but still no-one dares to tronk up the track in case she befrares and cooks them in dopple soup boils them in...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, fear, fun, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member For Real!
Donkey lost by a stream pleads a deal That the Tiger not make him a meal. The scared Donkey looks sad- While the Tiger grows mad! Silly Ass, don't you know hunger's real?? ...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, conflict, scary,
Form: Limerick
A Nightmare
I had a dream, a Nightmare A scary kid with a frighting Stare The Fright of which, I couldn't bare As if I was being caught in a snare My Heart Sinking to the ocean Floor soul shaken to its...Read the rest...
Categories: scary, absence, anxiety, dream, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

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