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Beheading Poems - Poems about Beheading

Beheading Poems - Examples of all types of poems about beheading to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for beheading.
Premium Member The Sigh
... It started with dry leaves pirouetting around the yard on the back of a skittish breeze, the magnolia rubbing against the fence as if scratching an itch, a few raindrops teasing a thirs......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, rain, storm, summer,
Form: Free verse



End of Palestine Foretold
...And now, finally, the curtain is falling on Palestine and there will be no Palestinians left to set free, erased from history. March of history at its cruelest, a grand tragedy foretold, by the mi......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member World War Three
...Written: September 05, 2023  World War 3 Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori ______________________________________________________________ In the midst o......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, analogy, bereavement, earth, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Guillotine
...I heard screams from those marked for a guillotine death No compromises for their cries before taking a last breath Words of repentance for dastardly crimes were bemoaned Begging for mercy with fe......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, death, murder,
Form: Personification
Judith Beheading Holofernes By Artemisia Gentileschi
...In the shadow of the night, a woman stands, Her eyes, as chilly as the winter's winds, Her hand raised high, a sword in her hand, Her face, a mask of pure malice. She towers over a man, his bod......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, art, conflict, death, murder,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Poets In Denial
...Sing ye poets of stunning birds and butterflies wings. Kiss ye, your own,Muse pen, on divine parchment, scribblings! Ride in gentle winds upon your colorful, faux unicorn Your hair flies in the ......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, humanity, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dragons
...Dragons are fabled beasts of myth and lore, and yet, some say they lived in the far past. And they were noble creatures at their core; or so said every mage I've ever asked. They slept up......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, animal, fantasy, feelings, hyperbole,
Form: Sonnet
The Duchess of Disgraces
...Britain didn’t hate you Meghan you were welcomed here you performed your own beheading we didn’t interfere And you ain’t even black so nobody was racist just shut your flipping trap y......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, america,
Form: Rhyme
Personal Peace
...Yesterday I stopped by the corner newsstand. “I know full well you can’t afford the Sunday paper, but why are you in the street?” A voice in my head asked. I should be in the subway for my morning......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Covid Cashier
...Quiet, dawn, Covid. Biggest accomplishment yesterday: buying toilet paper. Thanking the young cashier for doing her job. Feeling a little sick, wearing my mask and gloves, Spring oblivious to the......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, fear, nature, poetry, smile,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Caravaggio's Masterpiece
...There he lay on the foul smelling uneven sandy ground, Dead by beheading, blood seeping underneath the severed head, An atrocious act urged by a drunken adulterous queen. He was already dead, bu......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Red Justice But Green Peace
...HeteroSapiens have bipolar developed miraculous capacities to stretch and blur legitimate moral peace initiatives subordinate to licit legal judicial systems Judiciously approved punishment f......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, culture, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Love You Messages
...When the StraightWhite Patriarchal President sent out his Praise and Thanks Message "We love you" to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading VicePresident St. Peter's Pence loves homophob......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, health, love, peace, political,
Form: Political Verse
Eclipses Obscured
...The ancient Hindu text mentions the story of the celestial dragon, the serpent that drinks the nectar of Gods holding wagon. Indicating that abundance has its limits, get to the grips, beheading t......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, heaven, inspirational, symbolism,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Winds of Change In Chamber of the Dead
...Herod put John the Baptist in prison. He was having an adulterous affair with Herodias, his brother Phillip’s wife, and John was saying, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” On Herod’s birthday, H......Read the rest...
Categories: beheading, bible, dance, death,
Form: Sonnet

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