Short Nightmare Poems

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


Choose It's End

Nightmare turns to being gay
If you're a Christian on Judgement Day
Otherwise I hope you know
Into torment you will go
Form: Quatrain


If ever

If ever
If never

If only
 A dream

A cry
A nightmare

Empty

A reach for glee
A life free
Find hope in that

Reflection

I look in the mirror-
Face is numb,
Not knowing what I’ve become.
And to relive that horror,
Leaves me as a nightmare.
Form: Rhyme

The Coffin-Maker

Tight like
coffin,
black like
nightmare...
The coffin-maker likes his black tight
wagon, driven by the mare at night.
Form: Tyburn

Premium Member Nightmare

fear grips one unconsciously

heart begins to pound wildly

scary visions start to appear


            P.R.Deremer
Form: Haiku


Premium Member awoken by the sun

sheer curtain welcomes the sun
room lightens up inch by inch
a gentle way to wake up
taking away the sleeper’s nightmare
sun

Premium Member 2:00 AM Liminal

Between a dream and a nightmare is a place without a name

A gathering of half baked shadows waiting for a shape to claim
Form: Couplet

Ayn's Nightmare

Our brains push away
  as humanity pulls

Cerebrum benighted
  —emotion to school

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Guilty

I'm here to confess
To spilling poisonous words
Of a selfish fool
When you needed silent care
To help you fight your nightmare
Form: Tanka

The Nightmare of Reality

Since I had this nightmare
I have felt in despair
I searched the room
saw the darkness loom
and realized you were never there.
Form: Limerick

Nightmare

its seen real
this was a deal
in my mind
it  had me blind
nut was a dream I scream
it wake a wake up stare
was a 
NIGHT MARE

Poem Lll

Circularity and regression
married to night
their peace 
we love
and their conflict
ah is a nightmare
of September 39
of so.

Premium Member nightmare

nightmare central
old gooseberry in my dreams
i cannot scream

paralyzed with fright
no sounds come out
of my traitorous body

Nightmare fuel

Just turned 22
Six years flinching at you 
Six years of you leaving me blue
Our love is an engine 
And it runs on nightmare fuel
© Jess Marlo  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member fireworks nightmare

ready for the fourth
such loud angry fireworks
terrorizing dogs

pop pop bang bang bang
instilling ptsd
nightmare for soldiers
Form: Senryu

Premium Member What a Word

H  ades
E ternal
L oveless
L  ife without God  

This has been on my 
mind and heart for
awhile after having 
a nightmare...
Form: Acrostic

Threat?

I do somtimes wonder about CARE
The questio is a bad nightmare!
Yet some part of me wants to grow
Which is the reason that I show!
Form: Quatrain

The Wmd Oracles

Beware Bush and Blair
With false promises they swear
Weapons they declare
Bringing us all to a scare
They’re as a pair a nightmare
war
Form: Haiku

Premium Member New Year's Resolutions

broken promises, resurfacing as new dreams ~ a new year's nightmare



Monoku 2: New Year
Sponsor: Silent One
17 syllables (5-7-5)
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Toxic

Being loved and loving someone is amazing, but it can be a nightmare when it turns toxic.














1-30-18
Alexis Y.
© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Nightmare

Falling into space,

Awakening from a dream.

A scream caught in throat,

Nothing is as it may seem

Waiting for fear to subside.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Worst Nightmare

coronavirus-

worst human nightmare comes true -

fearful Man repents 









© Demetrios Trifiatis
    12 February 2020
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Life In a Drop

Clouded sky in tears
Sorrowful sunrise
Midday monotony
Blues at sunset
Sleepless slumber
Midnight madness
Nightmare alley
Rude awakening

Nightmare

The devil watchs where ever I go
I try to say "No!"
But still he comes
As I sit and hum
Satan is coming to get me
Why won't you let me be?
Form:

Premium Member Nightmare --------- Love

after my nightmare...

even though you sleep

you cradle me






________________________
For Andrea's "Nothing But Love Haiku" contest
1/19/14
Form: Senryu

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