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Best Blood Money Poems

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Premium Member Blood Money
Red cents fill the coffers of the rich.
It is the blood and sweat of others,
yet, no longer enough, no longer enough,
worthless as the silver-less lie...

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Categories: blood money, introspection,
Form: Pantoum



Africa
Africa my beloved continent
Beautiful and attractive, many
Came as visitors yet their aim was to
Dig gold and platinum
Everyday they dug to reach her belly and they
Flee...

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Categories: blood money, africa, flying, political,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Rat-A-Tat-Tat
The typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless...

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Categories: blood money, society, violence, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Boob Jobs and Bomb Jobs
Boob jobs and bomb jobs

Sisters in arms those **** and those weapons of massive 
destruction sex and death go together in dynamics
thermodynamics psychodynamics fused on...

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Categories: blood money, conflict, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Righteousness of God
He was in a life where he was always at odds cause he didn't know he's the righteousness of God. He was living the life...

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Categories: blood money, abuse, addiction, anger, faith,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Judas Kiss
Thirty pieces of silver
My soul condemn to hell
Even in the presence of God
One can feel left out
Jesus how I love you
My life I surrender for...

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Categories: blood money, betrayal, bible, friendship, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Jesus On Trial Part Ii
 
Judas Iscariot would later feel great pity.
The sad state Jesus was in he was able to see.
The thirty pieces of silver received as a...

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Categories: blood money, religion, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
3 Evil Kings
this is a tale of 3 evil kings...unholy trinity making even outlaws scream
one called pleasure...one called pain...one called power
they bring death to the game to...

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Categories: blood money, deathevil,
Form: Rhyme
Polemic: America, Land of the Dead
Every 16 hours a woman is shot
by her husband or boyfriend

One American is killed with a gun
every 15 minutes

Over 80 Americans are shot and killed...

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Categories: blood money, miracle, missing,
Form: Verse
The Uproot of All Evil
Trails of blood money
Paper trails of paper cuts
A destroyed forest...

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Categories: blood money, money,
Form: Haiku
Chemical Fire
Chemical Fire
Burn baby and give me some sulphuric hydrochloric acid smoke,
your fire gives me toasted tiktox and crisps me up nicely.
Boom goes the roof when...

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Categories: blood money, crazy, death, evil, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Assyrian Babbler

Emerald shiny baubles
attract wizard eyes ...
Balaam al-Oz
Assyrian acquisitions
be kryptonite-colored vanity
Ownership is an Alexandrian transaction,
a Grecian war rhetoric reaction
Gehazi greedy ... 
take all that your Philistine...

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Categories: blood money, history, identity, judgement, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Right Hand Man

Coulda been
the Hand of the Lying King,
if I didn’t tell the truth so much

Coulda been
Caesar’s right hand man,
if I was kill willing 
to have a...

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Categories: blood money, allusion, history, power, truth,
Form: Narrative
Headless Tree
I lie on a giant rock in the middle of the river bed
staring at the tree without a head
Dry stump shooting above me
Inviting one another...

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Categories: blood money, change, community, courage, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rage Against War
Machine raw; saws on..
War always wrong, is too true!
All blood; money, lies.)...

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Categories: blood money, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage,
Form: Senryu

Book: Shattered Sighs