#haunt poems on Hello Poetry

Dom 2d

Untitled 3/23/2025

May the light that you owe me
Be the flame that ignites
And sets the world I love to ash
Because when it’s over,
We flicker out like fireflies
As the cinders twirl and dance.

I’ll be more than a memory
I’ll be the reason the rain sings reveries
Tattoo tears with every memory
When you’re at your lowest
And the loneliness creeps
I’ll still be there to haunt your dreams
You’ll never be rid of me.

So go into your retreat
Hide within your shell
And cast off to sea
The waves may carry afar
But when you close your eyes
We **** like its cinema
Bittersweet like scotch and cinnamon
I’ll be there , haunting forever.

#haunt #ghost #abstract #free #verse #love #hate #concept

UV Mar 4

It’s less about missing you, it’s just who I am now

I believe in saying things out loud
To me a thought is an incomplete bargain
Unsealed until invited
to the world of the living
With a voice, a sound, even a gesture will do
That’s why it’s paramount
To say, ‘look it hurts right here”
To say, ‘it’s been 11 years, yet to me you’re always in the next room, through the door past the kitchen’
Do not let your grief bother the ghosts
A thought unsaid lives with the phantasma
And one shouldn’t haunt more alive than dead

-UV

#grief #ghost #haunt

Kai Feb 21

Stare

The dark that fills my room at night
Holds me tight
For the shadows that make me fright

Eye contact
With the dark figure standing in front of me
We both know that I can see
The unknown figure standing in front of me
With no eyelids
Corners of its mouth twisting ear to ear
It doesn't move
Yet, I feel this eerie sensation that its moving closer to me

Trying to fall asleep
But no escape from the eyes that taunt me when I weep
Always feeling like someone was beside me when I wake up
Useless cries
Heart beating loudly in my chest
I know I try my best
To ignore
But it simply won't do

I turn around in my bed
I know it's trying its hardest to make my mattress uncomfortable
I see its head in the corner of my eyes
Its eyes are boring into mine
It looks so humanoid, yet so uncanny
My mind can't save me from this mess
My hands are in full shakiness
Please...
I'm scared
Yet, the only thing it does is stare

Something from my childhood that is still currently haunting me to the current day :)
Just read this again and it makes me feel like I'm terrified of the unknown!

#haunt #poem #poetry

Stephanie Liquori Feb 19

Bygone Revenants

Drifting through the lonely darkness night
Searching ancient halls, candelabra high
Seems forever she waits, longing to unite
Dreary sorrow grips her fragile heart to die

Untold years roll by, only her love in mind
Many witnessed, oh the specters lament
Crying echoes, wails in morning, no sign
Remains now, a misting ocean breeze scent

One fateful day, through countless yore
Comes a gentle soul, with great empathy
Hidden in diary, tragic tale and what's more
Heroic captain's doomed ship by raging sea

Wait he, for her woeful soul amidst paintings
Candescence aflame the ancestral mortality
Eyes flicker and shifting ominous engravings
Lingering among shadows of ancient gallery

Elevated trembling light in hand to behold
A captain of the vessel dressed in uniform
It cannot be, it looks like he, truth now told
In gloom emerging, she hails human form

Gathers him now into her ghostly embrace
At last they meet again, it's been too long
Laying head against her gown of chantilly lace
Final beating, his heart stills, soul withdrawn

Mislaid at sea no more, arrives him at last
Pair drifting in afterlife's realm unknown
No more tears, worrisome fears, they laugh
Wasted years, rekindles love she does atone

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WC. 200 Haunting poem.

#ghost #lost #depressed #sad #lonely #haunt #reunion

Strangerous Feb 8

Love Haunt

We huddled at the edge and watched the wind
Blowing north the water flowing south
The willows swaying weeping for the dead
The sun forever going going down

This hideaway we haunted harbored hordes
Of ghosts of outcast lovers hanging on
To all the times they huddled there before
Their time was up and they were gone

The ghosts of outcast lovers would attend
Whenever outcast lovers came to burn
The fire of the force at their command
For they are cold cold and they yearn

It’s ages since we huddled in our lair
While other outcast lovers came and went
We’ll join the ghosts of outcast lovers there
When our time is up and we are spent

(c) 2025 by Jack Morris

Hear the song on SoundCloud:
soundcloud.com/therealjackstrange/love-haunt

#love #haunt #ghost #outcast

Wary Jan 10

Her silence

He sought to fade from her mind’s embrace,
While she lingered, haunted by his trace.
Her silence, a requiem of love's defeat,
A quiet sorrow she chose not to repeat.
He dreamed of renewal, of chances untold,
But she, with fortitude, let the past grow cold.

Requiem of her love

#embrace #haunt #silence #sorrow #fortitude

Arobeum Dec 2024

I am afraid of eyes

I am afraid of eyes,
Of thoughts and minds.
Afraid the "me" I see in mirrors
Might not be the "me" in others’ minds.

I fear the opinions, the whispered words,
The voices carving shapes of me.
What if their visions linger,
Ghosts of a face I cannot see?

They haunt me,
Questioning my skin, my bones,
The core of my existence.
Am I enough? Or am I shadows,
Fading in the light of others’ brilliance?

I fear I’ll never be content,
Forever chasing reflections—
Comparing my fragile self
To those I deem better,
Forgetting the beauty
That blooms within my imperfections.

#eyes #self #love #insecure #haunt #people

Jeremy Betts Nov 2024

~•§•~ The Price One Pays ~•§•~

I don't want to be this
I don't want to think any of this
It doesn't matter what I want
The choice I made will always haunt
I don't want to do this
I don't want to go through with this
But it is what it is they say
This is the price I must pay
The only comfort in this
Is that I won't remember this
When I come face to face
With the choice I've made to leave this cruel place

©2024

#life #choice #price #haunt #pay #comfort #hopeful #remember

Hollow Heart Oct 2024

Torment

I can always say,
If I leave,
I can ignore it.
But thats not how it works,
Does it?
I already know,
It’ll haunt me,
Until the end.

No matter how far I run, the thoughts always follow.

#leave #avoid #runaway #ignore #haunt #end #depression #alone