Short Haunted House Poems

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THE HAUNTED HOUSE

The haunted house on the hill
Shift around at a moment's will
To draw in a crowd
Who's drunk and real loud
So they'll stumble in for the kill
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Sweet But Psycho

Sweet but psycho,
drawn into the curve of that smile;
Oh those shudders,
dancing in fiery red high tops;
Still, her sign read ‘Haunted House.’

Premium Member Suspense

Ghostly choir of sounds
rattle frames in haunted house
on the edge of cliff!

Date : 28th December 2020

Contest : ‘Hi-Ku(4)’

Sponsor : Brian Strand
Form: Haiku

The Mouse of Halloween

It was a Halloween moon so what did I do?
I went to a big "Haunted House".
''Nothing will scare me", thought I in my pride...
A BIG MAN IN...out came a mouse.
© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Circus


When chaos whirls like a merry go round in a haunted house, you have mastered the circus when you can stay calm. 

Heidi Sands

2/11/25

(C)opyright


The Old Haunted House

Going up the creaking steps.
Closer, closer.

Opening the creepy door.
Closer, closer.

Going too the second floor.
Closer, closer.

Opening the closet door.
BOO!

Helen Peever

Creepy Scary Haunted House
Form:

The Haunted House

SHE SITS LIKE A WICKETY RICKETY SHREW COBWEB ENCRUSTED - WAITING FOR YOU RUSTED AND BUSTED WANTING TO CHEW, COME ON IN, BUT DON'T SAY "BOO" SHE'S HAUNTED, UNDAUNTED UNWANTED, ITS TRUE...
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member October Bliss

frosty crunch to grass
potpourri warming noon sun
wide eyed angel-blue skies 

pumpkins' glowing grins
kisses in tall cornfield maze
haunted house echoes with screams

Faye Lanham Gibson
Copyright, October 5, 2014
Form: Sedoka

Premium Member haunted house

creepy emojis
watched by entity
reflection in glass
spiritual essence
fast glimpses and blips

eerie feeling
ghostly visit
Victorian
velvet draperies

abandoned
disheveled
haunted house

gloomy
doomy

ghost

Haunted House

A lonely house behind the park,
The place is derelict and dark,
And shutters keep us out.
I picture inside bleak and stark,
With spectral dogs that howl and bark,
And ghosts that walk about.

Jack Horne for Constance’s Haunted House contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Halloween Night

They say it's only
Hocus Pocus but
Halloween is our focus
Haunted house creepy
Ghost what do you
Like the most
Enchanted broomstick
In the mist oh how
I wish October was here
Because anything You
Think of will Appear
The Phantom Is here
To give you a fright
Good night

Premium Member The Shaman

A local shaman
         sits still in a trance-like state,
          attempting to drive a ghost
        from a quaint haunted house.
An angry response - house trembling!

Date written: 05/21/2020
Form: Verse

Premium Member Happy Hee

Happy Hee, a little witch found her forever home in the wilds of Tennessee
It is perfect for me she said, dancing and prancing, perfect for me.
She brought in her familiars, a frog, a crow, a raven, and a cat named Me.
They loved her haunted house and made some scrumptious pumpkin tea.
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Haunted House On Top of the Hill

Haunted house on top of the hill Scares many kids that sure walk by Ghouls and ghosts make their display known Deep inside this hold there’s all sorts They moan and groan and carry on Loud enough so many others may hear They bring life of misery to all
Russell Sivey
Form: Kwansaba

Hide and Shriek

In the old house a creak
We went in for a peek
The floor boards all squeak
A ghostly shriek
Makes my knees go weak
My futures looking bleak
I'm on a loosing streak
Please! no more hide and seek.


Name    : Nick Bagnall
Contest : A Creepy, Scary Haunted House Poem, Please
7th place
Form: Monorhyme

My Heart Is a Haunted House

Each day I stand within 
this hollow auditorium filled
with skeletons of regret.

Each door opened reveals the
nightmares that lay hidden
behind pretty smiles

I travel on rocky pathways in a 
search to find...ME

My Heart is a huanted house
forever filled with regrets of
my haunted memories

The Haunted House

As thunder boomed and lightning flashed,
The rotting mansion seemed to speak;
The trembling pair, their eyes immense,
Began to shake with each new creak.

Decrepit timbers groaning then,
The pair agog, despite their boasts,
‘We have to stay and see it through.’
They couldn’t leave: they were its ghosts!
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member A Black Cat


                     A Black Cat sat on mat in a haunted house
                     All on a sudden appeared a Macro Mouse.
                                      Cat became afraid
                                    and quickly fled.
                     A little louse entered with extra large spouse.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Neighborhood Haunted House

Accepting my costumed friends dare, I cautiously pushed through the weeds to the unlit dilapidate porch.  Before I could knock, the door creaked open.

"Come     on in.

      We've              been wait-        ing for            

you."       Croaked the emaciated little girl with the basso profundo voice.

Something pushed me from behind ...
Form: Prose

Premium Member Haunted House

shadows reek of turpentine
scarlet-lettered trespass sign
fences dangle off the hinge
matted cobwebs festive fringe
spiders dance on abused toys
murderous crows' ghastly noise
unseen faces give you pause
rebel souls without a cause
unfriendly lot, wise be warned
you now living, the unmourned
leave us ghosts to haunt in peace
that your mind retains its lease
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Undone

I snuck into a haunted house for the thrill: to see for myself if any ghosts were there. And like a warm breath, clinging to Winter's chill, a foggy apparition appeared mid-air. Though it dissipated, my fright lingered still; fueling feelings of anguish and despair. My curiosity soon morphed into fear, on hearing a faint voice whisper in my ear.

Premium Member Redundant Ghosts

Ghouly the Ghost walked at night,
His loud howls gave all a fright.
Until one day, he lost his voice.
It just happened, without a choice.
How can a ghost haunt if it can't wail,
To Ghouly, this was beyond the pale.
He wandered through this once haunted house
Aimless and timid, as a mouse.
Wondering where Ghouls who have had their day
Dwell hereafter or fade away.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Peeking Through the Keyhole

PEEKING THROUGH THE KEYHOLE

              Pretty puppy peeking through the keyhole.
               Inside playing three kitten and one mole.
                      That was a haunted house.
                      Wandering macro mouse
                chewing, relishing rotten mutton roll. 
   
    01/17/19

  'SLAP THE MUSE AND TURN IT LOOSE'  Contest by John Lawless
Form: Limerick

Stanly and Coolbricz

Too impassioned more forlornly flower, does the turning dais merit another brother from which hails the borderline snowy hail, that which emotes so white that one mistakes the ink for snowcones, the pen for flavor? I should only curse the forewarning of any haunted house the suitor exiled the forsworn blouse a billowing willow fades with time, time-travel indeed, two sick swines.
© Ken Martin  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Vicky the Vociferous Boisterous Ghost

vociferous Vicky was a boisterous ghost
her sounds were loud and proud, just ask her host
clamorous drums were her instruments of choice
she frightened my cousins and my Aunt Joyce

Joyce had bought this haunted house “for fun”
these obstreperous sounds had her on the run
She wanted to move out and in with some of her kin
But we all said no, fearing we would let Vicky in.
Form: Rhyme

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