Short Ghosts Poems

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


Premium Member Bkack Shadows

Stalking black shadows 
Moon … Ghosts … Gods 
Silent witnesses
Omnipresent, observing 
The unfolding of life-
Demise
Form: Prose


Ghosts and Chasers

ghosts 
s c a r e
people
exorcists
i n t i m i d a t e
spirits

written 28th October for Joseph's brevette contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Ghosts

"GHOSTS"
elusive shadows
apparitional figures
peering hollow eyes
calculating shrewd moods,
anguish mortal clarity...
Form:

Premium Member Lunar Ghosts

moon sleeps autumn flutters <-)) *#* ((-> >-(( *#* ))-< sonorous leaves lunar ghosts

Premium Member On a Final Note

Burn our bones, buried
Deep in the cemetery.
Pray for the restless
Ghosts among the living dead:
Awaken those far ahead.
Form: Tanka


Scary Stuff

Are you scared of ghosts?
Is one hiding under your toast?
What is that creaking sound?
Whoops. your poster just fell down!

Premium Member Ghoulish Specter

Fearing ghosts is not foolish if they are ghoulish for evil specters might haunt you Halloween night
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.

Chasing Ghosts

Dating vague memories
Voice from the distant past
Do I dare brave the unknown?
Am I chasing dreams
Or am I chasing ghosts

Winternight Lane


chilliness glistens
under traffic citylamps
an abandoned road
time slowly travels little
mist chasing away the ghosts
© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Ebenezer Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge:
in literature, his impact is huge.
The Christmas ghosts did all they could
to alter him into someone good.
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Clerihew

Camouflage Night

An illusion of power
The dreams of men
When purple-gray
Camouflage night
Cloak herself, again
Upon the
Gray ghosts of men

Halloween Poem # 19...Scary Characters

Had a very busy day and night so here's just a short lanterne  for ya!


Ghosts
Goblins
Scary night
Surrounded by
Spooks!
© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lanterne

Premium Member Fare Thee Well

there are
merciless 
words that shatter joy
falling with tears of farewell
as sorrow’s wayward ghosts come fleetingly home

Premium Member Don't Start Something Now

Don't Start Something Now

This Guy Was MEAN to Ghosts.

They Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way.

-Gray Squirrel

05-17-2025

Premium Member FOXED PAGES-Bite Size Contest 129

dust-hushed spine-cracked whispers~ words trapped in vellum veins ghosts thumbing gilt-edged tragedies quiet
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member gentle strength

I’m fascinated  
by all elephant wisdom 
watching a movie
they walked through a hotel hall 
as quietly as the ghosts...
Form: Tanka

Premium Member CALICO GHOSTS

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cold attic at dusk heirloom cedar chest exhales calico, gingham ghosts
Form: Other

Unravel This Wind

Ghosts and spirits
Unravel this
Purple wind
Unleash your grin
The graves
Borrow deep, again,
Through the
Voices of dead men

Waiting For the Moonrise

sleeping in their 
quiet graves
are
gray ghosts
with dark
amber eyes
waiting for 
the moonrise
to fill 
the breathless sky

Ghosts

By delusions, 
By obsessions,
By anxieties,
By fears
I’m trapped.
They’re buried now
& will appear to me later
In ugly ways.

Premium Member Do

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Premium Member Imagination's Ghosts

laundry lines
wooden clothespins
white sheets 
flapping...
ghosts of my
imagination...
like Halloween 
this year
disappeared
Form: Imagism

Cold Mist

the fog rises up

        from snow piles like ghosts....

             cold mist flies away





~Strict Haiku 2 contest~
Form: Haiku

Film School

Suddenly, lights from a car outside.
Ghosts on a wooden floor,
created by a window and snow.
This is the way you leave the world.

Hurricane

Hurricane is a battalion of ghosts
Soldiered by retired women of war
The Amazons and the Catherines
To subjugate the great America
Form: Quatrain

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