Violence Poems - Examples of all types of violence poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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stainsThere’s so many stains on my floor
From your cat’s
To the bleach
That spilled on the floor
I wonder if the
Scent of my room
Had changed
From the very presence
Of you
& not in a...
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Categories:
violence, absence, abuse, betrayal, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Lost Track of a Ginger SnapGet in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun.
Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone,
something must be wrong,
I ask she looked at me and welts started to run,
down we hunkered under the...
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Categories:
violence, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
Stars
We burn babies
We rape ladies
We murder and destroy
innocent Jew-boys
Hamas, we are
Terrorism stars
...
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Categories:
violence, christian, death, freedom, hate,
Form: Couplet
GapLoud hollow shell
Glorious silent vacuum
Quiet echo bell
Invoke impartial gloom
Atomic detonation bomb
Renovate the tomb
Appease the qualm
Placate to quell
After noise, calm...
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Categories:
silence, violence, war,
Form: Other
Cup of Tea DearTumble the marble blue and green,
quarter and three read hue manatee,
tea wistfully crusted in the wind blow.
Apple cherry and pineapple, all good,
delicious and decadent in flavor sips,
careful dear there’s, something, lips…
Mirror here you seem to...
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Categories:
violence, art, candy, child, children,
Form: Free verse
Misses MadHatterDrag blade into coliseum gates red,
crimson armor and black carbon metal,
adore my frame as a scarlet knight bred.
Toothy grin, Cheshire eyes, test thy mettle.
Burst petals onyx
Shockwave from footfall rumbles
It’s a massacre
Titan comes through the open...
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Categories:
violence, dark, death, gothic, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Springtime on the DonetsClownish yaw engines
Spin us about
The blue sphere we inhabit
Its future in doubt
Our cumulus cloud shroud
Conceals the pain
Of tanks, missiles and pogroms
And unburied slain...
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Categories:
space, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
this isn't meWhat am I doing? This
Isn't me. I'm watching myself
Commit the unthinkable in
The name of duty and
I hate it.
Everyone is heralding me
A hero
When I only feel like the villain
Who actually wins. This isn't
Me.
When...
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Categories:
corruption, political, repetition, violence,
Form: Free verse
What Am I?It is a Flame so brilliant I dare not grow close
But still, I fear it may Burn me
So I Smother it. I throw upon it layers of hatred, isolation, vitriolic disgust. I Curse its name...
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Categories:
violence, corruption, hate, humanity, riddle,
Form: Free verse
TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGETOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE
Whether one is in a state of fury
Or even lost in sad desperation
Never to antagonise the jury
When they review all the information
And they approach their deliberation
The verdict can be either good...
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Categories:
anger, dark, violence,
Form: Dizain
Tears in GazaThe wives wail for their fallen husbands' embrace,
The children's tears fall on their mothers' lifeless face,
Men beg for mercy from soldiers in the fray,
I weep, powerless to save them from this dismay.
Displaced and far from...
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Categories:
violence, faith, freedom, grief, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Rose Red Pyre Black PetalsVisceral incantation from onyx velvet lips,
moan, groan, to twist my bits as a witch.
Salem pyre ancient oak standing the edifice,
wrist shackled chains gather round vile cultist.
Breast bang dolorous dirge ignition of limbs,
Rictus permeated rancor give...
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Categories:
violence, dark, death, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
violence, dark, gothic, horror, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
The Weight of TimeI feel the weight of time
Pressing down on my neck
I thought the weight of
stress would dissipate
with time
but the frosting
no longer tastes
better than the cake.
How could the snow
no longer look the same?
Santa nothing but...
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Categories:
violence, betrayal, dark, death, fear,
Form: Prose
Sensitive BehaviorLast night together baby, pains my core.
One two three four, one two three four.
La la la la la, la life is gonna stop.
La la la la la, la husk is gonna rot.
Festering in my basement,...
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Categories:
violence, body, dark, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Violence Poems
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