Short Scary Poems

Short Scary Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short Scary poems by PoetrySoup poets. Search short Scary poetry by poem length and keyword.


Displaced

Tossed high up in air
Cradled in valiant fort
Oust Archimedes
Vastness being inside the dot
White dreams ignobly sold
Form: Tanka


Premium Member A Turning Point

A turning point's not always fight or flight
                                             ~ It just may be left or right
Form: Monoku

Hunted--Halloween Senryu

Playing Hallow tricks 

claws from nowhere pierced me---

thirst for flesh unquenched


Halloween Senryu
18 Oct 17
© Rhoma Em  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Scary Creation?

What happened in Satan's brain
To bring on so much acid rain?
Why would he even try to decieve?
In only Jesus I believe!
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Have You Seen Him

Hollow eyes
Sagging skin
Wounds undressed
Ashes strewn about
                his feet
A tremor 
     sunders his lips
Form: Imagism


A Creepy Night

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

Yaldabaoth embellished in his shadows

Caliginous eyes
Fearsome face of sickly white
Lion-headed snake
Embellished in his shadows  
With flaming orange beneath
Form: Tanka

Premium Member I know my time is close

he has a shovel
I see the look
I know my time is close
I write this with shaky hands
my time is up
I will never be found

Scary Stuff

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

Digesting the Wooers

Like stomach acid
Your observant scrutiny
Digests every flaw;
While the weak wooers scurry
The patient one grows stronger
Form: Tanka

Cat and Mouse

Cat and Mouse

I wish I had a Cat

As I have a Mouse 

Running about my house

And it is scarring the bejezus out of me

The Dark Side

Alone
Afraid
In the dark
Can't see
Out of breath
Can't hear
Help me
Before they get here
Before they get to me
Save me

Premium Member Snakes

Snakes Miracle Man 8/11/2024 With scary bodies Snakes cause self inflicted harm; many are harmless.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Red Hot Cayene Pepper

red hot cayene pepper
bit my tongue ~ mouth like a snake
I need an ice cube
Form: Haiku

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

Plume

Dormant no more, the World rebels. All heavens are covered. Luck is inverted –with nowhere left to run.

Premium Member Scared to Death

It startled me from behind but it could not hold its grip, for in my hands I grasped it and twisted it dead.
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member Winter

Winter days
play weather roulette
stuck between
fall and spring
cold, snowy, cool, sunny, mild
till that BLIZZARD comes
Form: Shadorma

A Tree

Sticks
Twigs
Breaking
In the wind

Leaves
Rustle
Blow
Without showing

Passing
Away
Recurring

No one
Ever
Knowing
© Mik Fjeld  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Hell's Sorrows

The sorrows of hell
is the mortal death 
that befell the God/man, Jesus
as he bore the sins of mankind
to where they belonged.

Scary, Scary, Dictionary

I don't understand the dictionary
It's really quiet frustrating you see
Whenever I go to look up one word
I end up looking up three
Form: Rhyme

One Broken Monoku

decayed junkyard swarms-

           disgusted maggots noise  


Created on 11/18/14 for- “One Broken Monoku” – Poetry Contest
Form: Monoku

Shadowed Pearl

Gifted troubled lad
Whirling pool in his chamber
Two contrasting worlds
Reside in his compartment
Gloom at the edge of his sky.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member The Rustle of Bushes

   The rustle of bushes means what
     a squirrel in search of a nut --

   something more sinister
     awaits the inquisitor
Form: Couplet

The Undead

The UnDead
bloodthirsty suckers, vampires on the prowl for prey - a blast of sunshine
Form: Senryu

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