Best Violence Poems
Below are the all-time best Violence poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of violence poems written by PoetrySoup members
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
violence, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
Texian Macabre ArenaThe First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...
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Categories:
violence, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad
More Worse When I Cry(note: picture is essential to the poem)
Teacher said my decisions needed consequences.
I have to write a million gazillion sorry sentences.
Billy was stupid to tease...
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Categories:
violence, abuse, childhood, emotions, father,
Form:
Narrative
Screaming At the SkyScreaming at the Sky
Mothers screaming mournfully at a deaf sky
holding their heads helplessly as they cry
pitiful tears for innocent, defenseless children slaughtered
in fatal cross...
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Categories:
violence, children, drug, grief, hurt,
Form:
Verse
Pirate Bay```Pirate Bay the Haiku```
pirates fierce and mean
drowning fish, sea to sea
parrots on their butt
```Polly Wants A Cracker```
bloodthirst & brutal
Quartermaster...
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Categories:
violence, adventure, anti bullying, boat,
Form:
Haiku
I Can'T BreatheIn memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.
Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone...
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Categories:
violence, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Dark RosesDark red was the bouquet in white gloved hands
foreshadowing the scarlet stains of dread.
If yellow be the rose of Texas land
why not give her the...
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Categories:
history, rose, violence,
Form:
Sonnet
Olena and PavloOlena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then...
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Categories:
death, love, soldier, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Jailbreak At Milton CreekThere was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail...
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Categories:
america, humor, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Brutalities of WarAtrocious affliction trembles voices of anguish
Brewing vile horror in death of tomorrow
Fearing for the newborn, women, and children
For yesterday’s massacre killed her husband
And the...
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Categories:
sorrow, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
How Do You DoWell, my father was a farmer, just chickens and cows
When it came to raisin' 'em, he really knew how
To milk those bovines for all they...
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Categories:
violence, farm, father, jewish, religion,
Form:
Lyric
God Sees the Courageous At WorkStrangers are attacking me;
ruthless men seek my life—
men without regard for God. Selah
Psalm 54:3
GOD SEES THE COURAGEOUS AT WORK
Wild-eyed disregard for God —
The...
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Categories:
violence, abortion, christian, dark, murder,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
violence, america, city, death, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Shadow To Shadow••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
In youth the Eden where you played
was left bereft, destroyed, decayed,
by trusts malignant masquerade
Shadow to shadow, shade to shade
No grass...
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Categories:
violence, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form:
Monorhyme