Short Ghastly Poems

Short Ghastly Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Ghastly by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Ghastly by length and keyword.


A Creepy Night

Thud, thud.....
 Ghastly hush broke.
 Spooky noise of the wind.
 Blood-curdling darkness, who is there ??
 Silence......
Form: Cinquain


All Hallow's Eve

water dripping from the eaves
promise in the whispering leaves
cold lights dancing in the night
spirits cast in ghastly light
Form:

Premium Member Halloween Headlines

Streets awash with mewling cats
and surly swashbuckling pirates.
Somber skies with swirling bats,
and ghastly goblins chasing rats.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Grandma's House

From every side rise 
forlorn cries, hovels ghastly
plunged in darkness deep...
The winding way to grandma's house
s a secret he'll long keep
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Utter

Do you fear dying? Have you breathed utter darkness that tests your resolve? The night is ghastly only if you lose sight of Heaven.
Form: Tanka


White Pumpkin

I am NOT of the orange kind
You dare harvest ME? Take to mind!
Or I'll haunt you tonight
With my ghastly white-light
So don't carve your face in MY rind!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Blue Blood Horseshoe Crab

Blue blood horseshoe crab

A million crabs milked
each year for humankind
to detect vaccine contamination.
blue, ghastly, gruesome, repugnant!
Form: Verse

Locked-In Syndrome

The Heaven that Christians foresee
Sounds utterly ghastly to me:
Without touch, taste or speech,
Loved ones just out of reach….
“Locked-in Syndrome” for Eternity!
Form: Limerick

Fred the Martian

There was a Martian, whose name was Fred.
Who had a Venusian girlfriend, who said?
Fred is a ghastly lover.
He will only hover.
He has no feet or hair on his head.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Ghosts



Ghostly apparitions,
Ghastly pale and scary,
Grisly and disgusting,
Gloomy shadows floating,
Grey hued forms in corners,
Gruesome, horrifying ~ 
Gossamer and wispy  !
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member From Shadows To Sanctity

All Hallows' Eve Ghastly, Macabre Haunting, Shivering, Bewitching Specters, Shadows, Saints, Seraphs Praying, Glorifying, Rejoicing Holy, Divine All Saints' Day
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Paralysis of the Will


              Paralysis of the will
                 mind and body breathless-still

              Anon hearts stop pulsing too
                 skeletons assume a ghastly hue
Form: Couplet

Premium Member All Saints Eve

Misty shadowed hosts
          ghastly wisps of fortunes past
                    moonlight from the dead...


     Halloween Senryu Contest
     Sponsored by Laura Loo
     10/10/2017
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Ghouls

Galactic blood red sky
Gathers for Halloween
Goulish grotesque, zombies
Gross witches and black cats
Goblins, plus gruesome ghosts
Ghastly, grim, while groaning
Guarantees goosebumps.
Form: Pleiades

Webs

Horror yellows in vaults. The commonplace entertains the unspeakable. We have photographed every ghastly act. Pundits endlessly debate the proverbs of ancient spiders.

Pleasure In Agony

Alone, a ghastly night without you
And a moment of your absence
You know I can't put up with. 
As my hands, manacled
With yours, pain me much
While tugged by you--
Kind of joy
Pervades 
Me.
Form: Nonet

Near Death

Age, catatonically passed between
In its thinking processes
Doubt, and the most ghastly, Fear.
And will no angel edge up, to whisper
Death's so called realm, down-winging:
"Death is but heavenly near?"
Form: Rhyme

The Ghost

Ghastly
Ghostly
Chilly
Tingly
Pale and wan the ghastly, ghostly be
Made a scared and chilly, tingly me.

11.3.17



After reading The Busker by Roy Pett I was inspired to have a go at a Tyburn myself.
Form: Tyburn

Premium Member Nights of Fog

Against the muffled voice of night
Fluffy fogs rise to diffuse lights.

Bitter soul ravaged my angst
Dwindling my life’s grit…cold, numb
‘Till flicks of street lamp glistened
Strength clears ghastly fog.
© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Other

A Ghastly Mistake

a ghastly mistake 
to interact in the first 
place 
but interaction was made
relationship was established 
years together failed miserable 
never had a snow balls chance in hell
of ever lasting for the long hall
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Duskfall

dusk ominous, ghastly-- brooding, cunning, hovering enigma, maze, phantom, alchemy gripping, imposing, enveloping shadowy, moonless nightfall `` Sparkling Diamonds Contest For Joseph May 6/16/2019
Form: Diamante

Ghastly Grave Gathering

Ghastly Grave Gathering 

Gran and grandpa are gone
Giving grandchildren gifts
Generations greedy
Guilty, grabbing for gain
Granted gratis gold goods
Girls grovel gracelessly
Gluttonous grandkids grief 

November 2016
Form: Verse

The Liar's Dagger In My Heart

oblivious before 
but now i know
the painful lie
that stirred below

behind the masks
you hid so well
the ghastly face
on which the curtain fell

the ache and pain
that welled within
the truth revealed
the tears begin.
Form:

According To the Stats

All bombs cause destruction exemplifying 
fanatic ghastly heartless infamous
jar, kindling loathe, machination nefarious 
operations pitilessly quashing
rabid sanguineous tyranny, uncivilized violence, 
warlike xenophobia, yielding zilch!
Form: ABC

Premium Member Goblins

goblins are dwarf spirits,
  grotesque in shape and size.
   godly not, but ghastly.
     gestures are crude and rude.
       greatly mischievous, they
         growl and shriek, loud or low.
            gamboling sprites of lore.
Form: Pleiades

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