Short Horrors Poems

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


On Bended Knees

On bended knees I felt the horrors
Of death as it gushed out blood on me
Behind closed eyes,
On perky breast of a female death.
Form: Imagism


The Horror of Love

Oh the horrors and pain of love,
For those that have seen it,
For those that have heard of it, 
And for those that has never touched it.

Premium Member Be Wary

Dark alleyways loom, Within the dreamtime cities; Foreboding horrors; Of which I dare not mention. Beware alleyways of mind.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Evading the Horrors of the Holocaust

hidden not to elicit 
a trifle response
spiteful mordacious
shackled on a horde race

cartridge loiter about the ground 
wizened with years


4/3/2017
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.

Stephen King

Have you seen the words of Stephen King?
Which reap from hell unspeakable things?
Horrors worse than death border your brain
And rob the mind of much needed sane.
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member The Nilands of Tonawanda

Siblings fight for peace
unknown horrors they now face
theatres of war
fallen, in recognition 
we must save the surviving 







"Saving Private Ryan"
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE COURAGE TO BE KIND

When surrounded by the horrors of our hatred
I am grateful for those who have the ability to find…
In the midst of the most difficult of situations….
the courage to be kind.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Where's 'Papa'

      Father Time, depicted as ‘the Grim Reaper’
      House of Horrors gatekeeper

         Holding a scythe, ready to strike
         Where's ‘Papa,’ who loved me as a tyke?
Form: Couplet

Natural Language

Fallen Autumn leaves know the babbling water's dialect,
the language of the mute stream, Socratic running of its mouth.
Pretzeled on a stump, I dream what horrors and wonders I've missed.
© Collin Lam  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Broken Warriors

Broken soldiers
Splintered dreams
Huddled
The horror of now
Haunted
By the horrors of then
Scarred, sutured,
But as yet
Un-cauterized
Wounds
Forever bleeding
Into their present

Premium Member Heaven

Head and heart misaligned
Happiness is denied
Halting the flow of thought
Horrors spawned by mind die
Honing silence with bliss
Hunger for God’s touch grows
Heaven’s light dawns within
Form: Pleiades

Horrors Taunt

In illusions
        senseless disorder
illogical reasoning
        embeds reality.
A lonesome
        improbability drapes
inner struggles,suggesting loss.
        Holding on to you.

Replenish Me

Despair reigns upon the sunrise

Agony awakens the motionless body

Endlessly traveling in unwanted horrors

Symptomatic desires

Observed only within darkness

A mirage of the mind

Premium Member The Good and Evil of Mothers Milk

a cradle rocks with a lullaby
two small eyes closed and smiling
milk still on her little tongue

but what milk of horrors
locked up in the oven’s womb
succumbs the son of doom 

1/31/2019

Cenote

Glimpse an empire in sweated palm burdened with pain centuries old; 
Horrors and stalagmites hang in beautiful tragedy Gods have told:
Within soil surrounding bluest calm, such memories you hold.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Their Blood Will Never Wash Away

evil a genocide wrapped in hypocrisy cruel unspeakable horrors of heinous crimes against humanity in blatant scorn for the impending wrath of god ~
AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Dark Passage

The night is a den
  of mixed horrors

A trap
  where you sleep with the dead

Any light
  that’s remiss or left vacant

A pathway
  —to gravestones unread

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Selfish Ignorance

Countless experienced
The horrors of war
Communism
World hunger
Undeniable
Historical data.
Then thousands
Witnessed his miracles
Heard the message
Yet distrust the Son
Of God.
Were the times lacking 
DVD’s?

Premium Member Dear Santa

Dear Santa please bring me good news from all the world; that peace will be the future. Bring everyone contentment, love and good health too. In short, obliterate the horrors, in the world today; thank you.
Form: Sijo

Father of Mine

Father of Mine,
What horrors have you seen?
That kept you from us
From the family that we could never be?
I love you
And I fear that the further you drift,
That you’ll answer L’apple du vidde.
Is it so wrong to be worried?
I love you.

Xenophobia

Above, behind
Calling down ever from gentle horrors inside,
Judging kindly, listening mindfully now,
Openly perusing quaint reality,
Staying truthful under vain watch,
Xenophobic,
Youthfully zealous.
©Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.
Form: ABC

Those Time-Distant Parishes

Neon and noise.
Night-world horrors.
Whose reflections, whose echoes
Showed not, nor shook
Its panes and doors.

Conscience-singeing.
Waywardly flapped.
Strange appeal! Once sought but through
A moonlight kiss.
A round dance. Clapped.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member WAR

old men deciding
sending young to die
grandmothers crying
destroying families
killing people’s dreams

devastation
terrible horrors
sanctioned murders
innocents die

no one wins
upheaval
strife and stress

skirmish
battle

war
war

Premium Member Man Is No Island

I think
I will
and I create--
keep your thoughts
pure, with a heart
full of love;
be conscious
of who you are
and the power
of mind—we
share both our
blessings and
horrors.

Man is no
Island...and the
universe, a sea
of relations.

Horror

Kill them all
Genocide
Progrom
Terorism
Kill him now
Murder
Manslaughter 
Suicide 
Poison 
The killings of the killers 
The death of the dead
The doom of the soul
The destruction of life 
The horrors of life  is
The death of the soul
Form: Lyric

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