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Violence Poems | Examples of Violence Poetry

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 short, long, best, and famous poem examples for violence.
stains
There’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...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, absence, abuse, betrayal, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



Lost Track of a Ginger Snap
Get 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...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, animal, dark, death, dog,
Form: Narrative
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We burn babies We rape ladies We murder and destroy innocent Jew-boys Hamas, we are Terrorism stars ...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, christian, death, freedom, hate,
Form: Couplet
Gap
Loud 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...Read the rest...
Categories: silence, violence, war,
Form: Other
Cup of Tea Dear
Tumble 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...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, art, candy, child, children,
Form: Free verse



Misses MadHatter
Drag 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...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, dark, death, gothic, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Springtime on the Donets
Clownish 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...Read the rest...
Categories: space, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
this isn't me
What 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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, corruption, hate, humanity, riddle,
Form: Free verse
TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE
TOO 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...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, dark, violence,
Form: Dizain
Tears in Gaza
The 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...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, faith, freedom, grief, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Rose Red Pyre Black Petals
Visceral 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...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, dark, death, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
Journey Of A Heroine
My journey of blood Sword of viscera and steel ...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, dark, gothic, horror, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
The Weight of Time
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, betrayal, dark, death, fear,
Form: Prose
Sensitive Behavior
Last 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, body, dark, death, deep,
Form: Free verse

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