#horror poems on Hello Poetry

neth jones Mar 15

step to the threshold
love is pulled away with the door
into the ice night
replaced with mewling horror
exposure invites my death

..tanka style

Original Version -

threshold
step
     into the night
and love is pulled away with the door
replaced
       with a mewling wall of horror
step out and meet winter
  exposure    invites my death
                                with a snarl

#tanka #brevity #micro #short #winter #cold #dark #horror #love #death

Pagan Paul Feb 27

A Scream Nobody Will Hear

I open my eyes.
The darkness is blackness.
The stillness is complete.
The silence is deafening.
I breathe in once
and the air is so warm.
The exhalation slow.
Why do I feel dizzy?
I move my limbs.
Realisation bites,
it is then that I scream.
A scream nobody will hear.

23/01/24

#psychology #horror