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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.
Premium Member Democracy Takes a Beating
Attending an ‘SDS’ meeting Watched ‘Democracy’ take a beating Listened to strident, long-haired voices denounce the USA shilling for...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, america, conflict, education, freedom,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Balance
Balance is difficult for me -- generally leaning one way or the other if not oscillate more apt to choose that additional cold beer, wanting to capture sunset squeeze several more blazing rays onto a fiery horizon – a tropical beach,...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, freedom, introspection, spiritual, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Terrorists' Deity
Barbarity's own Deity, The "Black Knight" of perversity: Ascending through gross ignorance, Descending on to Hell's province. This callous god despises light And seeks the deepest, darkest night. It spawns a cult of terrorists - Impoverished, soulless separatists. This cunning god invites...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, dark, faith, fate, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Child of War
I was never asked to choose a side, it is to fate I must abide. I am the child that war has aged, I am the soul that time has caged. I am the breeze, lost...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, anger, child, conflict, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Brenda Sleeps
[verse] My crazy sister had roamed homeless for so long. Once an intellectual, then her brain went wrong. For hospitals to keep her, she had to be a danger. A strange logic, but to reality they were a stranger....Read the rest...
Categories: violence, crazy, family, mental health,
Form: Lyric



The unspoken reality
Maybe I am not allowed in the society Maybe I am not fitting in the society But wait what society? The society who beats me with rods? Or the society Who crushes me by there vehicles? Or the...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, animal, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Earth in 2024 - 2
We've known the devils but where are all the angels when we need them most? Working on a miracle? Bring mercy and compassion....Read the rest...
Categories: angel, humanity, violence,
Form: Tanka
Earth in 2024
Violence all round... Haitians, Houthis and Hamas... Moscow massacre... The world we've inherited is hell in a handbasket....Read the rest...
Categories: violence,
Form: Tanka
I Have No Enemy Except
There is nothing wrong with me Besides the curve of my bones And the curve of my two eyes. There is nothing wrong with earth Besides the razors on pine The falling of the downfall. On Sunday, I like to kill...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, anxiety, body, humanity, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No More Guns-dodo
A gut punch - gone forever Life will never be the same Hers, lost to a stray bullet Phew, a frightful dream...Read the rest...
Categories: dream, political, violence,
Form: Dodoitsu
Welcome to the darkside
In the realm of artificial intelligence, a shadow looms, A world of algorithms, where uncertainty blooms. The promise of progress, a double-edged sword, As the cons of AI are slowly explored. Privacy invaded, data mined without consent, In the hands...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, computer, dark, evil, life,
Form: Rhyme
Invisible Bloodbath: Tulsa Race Massacre
The story of a harrowing tragedy, A race carnage of terror and atrocity. A district that teemed with pride and achievement, But a place of hatred for white supremacists. With the terror and fear of those dark days, The lives...Read the rest...
Categories: racism, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shut Up!
Shut Up! Shut up the hurricane shutters! There's a storm that is ready to blow. Batten down all the hatches! Mother nature is angry, don't you know? There's a man on the watch tower ...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Curse
I curse you You, who developed fear in me You, who made me hate men That man Who touched me When I was just a little girl Trying to be strong. That man Whose evil eyes Made me wear loose...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, abuse, deep, humanity, hurt,
Form: Free verse
merciless
I don't give a fvck about no one except for me I wanna watch them tie you up, break your fingers and your knees I wanna watch them make you bleed, I wanna watch you start to...Read the rest...
Categories: violence, 12th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse

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