Scary Poems | Examples of Scary Poetry

Well tomorrow’s the big day!! Wow!! A geriatric President hands the keys of power to one who will be even older than...Read the rest...

As shadows laid where none could go, The dark sky etched fear in a scrawl, Making hearts leap clean out of sight, Silhouettes of danger scared all. A gentle breeze whispered of fright, Meanwhile, death crept with aching flow. The silence...Read the rest...

A scary scene did greet the steamer crew one day no keepers did they meet not touched, the room did lay. 3 blackbirds watched them climb to top of steps in cold the clock had stopped it's chime the table food was...Read the rest...

Come with me to the place ~ where the sun hides its face; to pour its golden light, on trees and vines in sight. Even silence speaks there ~ on the peaks, in thin air; where skies turn brightest gold and trees,...Read the rest...

Inauguration Day 2025 - Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00?PM Aforementioned event interestingly enough coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day. The late reverend American minister and activist, now and forever more immortalized in the promised land despite his work among...Read the rest...

The way that you looked at me scared me. I couldn’t trust myself to look at you the way you looked at me. I couldn’t trust myself to trust someone. I looked away. I felt your gaze graze...Read the rest...

Poems don’t have to rhyme, free verse it isn’t a crime I can write what I please—don’t call the police. Must I play the game, rhyme and spill intimate things? Can I develop leitmotifs without rhyming riffs? I could...Read the rest...

Metacarpals Phalanges and Sesamoids - Beauty Immortal The hands, it's all about the hands for me Streamline with creamy silk skin so fine The elegance, the aesthetics, the peripheral view The long slender phalanges, so ethereal The disquiet beauty, the...Read the rest...

Stiletto stare, wicked, wild hair, barbwire takes me there Daggers, switchblades, and razorblades Wait did I not mention hand grenades My apologies in Spades Take me fast, love me hard, you are my ace when it comes to cards And...Read the rest...

In the valley where shadows cling, There flows a river without a spring. Its waters pale, its whispers low, A winding path where none dare go. The reeds are brittle, the banks are stark, Each stone bleached smooth, each corner...Read the rest...

Tucked inside a box of dust, hidden beneath the weight of years, I found it—a photograph. Its edges were curled, its surface clouded with time, but the image within was clear enough to unsettle me. There...Read the rest...

As shadows laid where none could go, The dark sky etched fear in a scrawl, Making hearts to leap out of sight, Silhouettes of danger scared all, A cooly breeze whispered the fright, Meanwhile, death crept closer too slow....Read the rest...

waking up from my sleep, I was all confused. I heard a boom as that of thunder, or the sound of a hammer striking on the anvil. trying to be up, I felt as shaky as a fawn,...Read the rest...

All rabbits chased out of their holes, Snakes now make their burrows their own: Their venom, their flight it controls. All rabbits chased out of their holes. How to scare out the snakes, their goals? The snakes not worried, as...Read the rest...

Why Hello, I am Danger I am a stiletto in the shadows, ready to slit your throat Should you gloat about laws I broke I am precariousness in a dress Peril, hazard, and risk, I'm menace sitting on a...Read the rest...