Best Crime Poems
Below are the all-time best Crime poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of crime poems written by PoetrySoup members
If This Was My Last PoemCome to me my beloved,
save me from life's brutalities,
so this heart can soften -
sparkle like a million fireflies.
For you hold the light
to illuminate my soul.
For...
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Categories:
crime, romance, romantic love, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
No Thunder Without LightningLightning rarely strikes without thunder,
causing havoc in gloomy skies.
Humans can't control their plunder,
seeking shelter until the storm dies.
Once, I was your prince - full of...
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Categories:
crime, absence, angst, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My HangingA funny thing happened on the way to my hanging
Couldn't sleep the night before my head was banging
I was innocent of a crime that I...
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Categories:
crime, brother, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTDPOTD 6th Sept 2019
When the dawn kisses the dew on all thing that grow
and that first melancholy thought, ponderous and low
questions any relevant notions to...
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Categories:
crime, romantic, science fiction,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Black CloakIt's like a black cloak around our world bringing misery and death
Virologists are saying " you ain't seen nothing yet"
If only our leaders would...
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Categories:
crime, death, evil, goodbye, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
CovetousIs it a crime
To pry apart rhyme
Stitch lines, unhitched
From native consequence
To warily marry
Unmetered time
By forced remorse
Unrehearsed
In patchwork verse
In my malaise
My daydreams ablaze
I long for eloquence...
...
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Categories:
crime, jealousy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Walk TallI was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...
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Categories:
crime, america, death, drink, drug,
Form:
Narrative
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress InkThe moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...
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Categories:
crime, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Devils Deadly DimeDevils deadly dime
The sign said no grown-up at the playground.
Tripping on a penny, like a mime!
My hand is in my pocket with the dime I...
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Categories:
crime, abuse, day, irony, judgement,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
August RainsThe steadily falling cold August rains
Continue to pour upon Cheshires lanes;
Over flattening fields of soddened wheat,
Soaking the grass, splashing the feet.
Stands the Combine in the...
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Categories:
crime, august, nature, poetry, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
Winds of AutumnI called to the winds of autumn
As they wrapped up the dying year;
"Oh stay for a moment and tell me
Of answers I need to hear".
Who...
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Categories:
crime, life, lost, autumn, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
A Wordless SkyIf I don't write, I'm doomed to die
and lie beneath a wordless sky
A silent corpse, unseen, unheard
alive yet dead- is that absurd?
If rhymes don't...
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Categories:
crime, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
WeirdoDeclared an outcast,
shunned by society -
but she's the same
as you and me,
but You can't see her pain
hidden behind her coy smile.
You can't wipe away those...
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Categories:
crime, abuse, bullying, society,
Form:
Free verse
To the Poet Who Broke My HeartYes, he broke my heart, but not the usual way
With tender words, he made my poor heart sway
Each chamber beamed with his adoring smile
That chased...
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Categories:
crime, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
Freedom Beckons Seductively - POTDPOTD 29 Jan 2020
A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s...
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Categories:
crime, freedom, friend, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme