Best Bloodier Poems
Black Hole Love...Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what should have been.
I thought me......
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Categories:
bloodier, husband, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Purity Pawned...What does innocence cost, you ask?
It seems it's just a grand,
For I know a girl who had hers sold
By her Aunt, in a foreign land.
They sold her soul at fiftteen,
......
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Categories:
bloodier, abuse, people, violence, women,
Form:
Rhyme
The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre...
Oh bloody and evil Catherine de Medici.
The queen has acted impetuously.
Thousands have died because of her demands.
Witness her red bloodstained hands.
A wedding is a time of joy and jubil......
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Categories:
bloodier, history, death, death, evil,
Form:
Quatrain
A Tale of Ancient Times...This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced ......
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Categories:
bloodier, faith, history, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
The Modern Super Hero...Made up super heroes we're taught to love
Made up archetypes we watch get rough
We cheer on as they dispense justice
We've stopped questioning why we idolize this
As our heroes have become mo......
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Categories:
bloodier, corruption, courage, hero, mythology,
Form:
Couplet
Dancing With Bones...Once upon a time we were falling in love
Now you look down from up above
Once I was as free as a dove
Now I sit alone in this dark conner
Friends turned to strangers, loner
My heart does not ......
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Categories:
bloodier, angst, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
The Shot Heard 'Round the World...Standing that morning at that Lexington field
Not knowing what drama the day would yet yield
When off to my right rang the shot of a gun
I knew that this dreaded war had just begun
No one kno......
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Categories:
bloodier, historyday,
Form:
On the Front Line (Free Style "slam")...It was a hot June./ Late afternoon./ I stormed into that saloon / like a 30 men
platoon!/ The bartender says, "Gentlemen not in here." / I smiled and said, "Old man have
no fear."/
......
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Categories:
bloodier, on writing and words,
Form:
Free verse
Blue Bra Girl...now captive of the Internet
a junta's brutality is beset
captured for the world to see
the batoned beating of democracy
North East Africa, it can't be claimed
to solely fill this role of shame
but n......
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Categories:
bloodier, hope, inspirational, passion, people,
Form:
Quatrain
I was born there...I was born in the odds,
I lived through it,
dotted the lines on my path
I was born among hyenas,
these scrambling to stiffen the last breath,
Amidst hurts and hate first from home,
A lot c......
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Categories:
bloodier, africa, allegory, allusion, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
I Just Want To Rhyme...I just want to rhyme and have fun
Look at everything I bounced back from
Going back to write about every path I crashed on
Orgasmic flow, so when my pen touches the paper, my pad comes
We all enj......
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Categories:
bloodier, courage, encouraging, inspirational, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Vile Drink...Storms glistening sporadically
Inspiration wavering dramatically
I can’t move like I should!
I am fighting against the reveling, reviling flood
Evidence of many spawning deaths cannot stop me
And the......
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Categories:
bloodier, angst, fantasy, inspirational, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Hungrier...5/3/17
The world getting hungrier
Times getting uglier
And bloodier
Compared to animals, have people always been nuttier?
Needs growing
And greed showing
Far from easy going
Regardless......
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Categories:
bloodier, poetry, rap, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Knowable Unknowns...Do you know, static clocks move faster than moving clocks?
Do you know, silence is not the best response to a fool?
Do you know, a man is also a woman?
Do you know, snakes don't like to bit......
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Categories:
bloodier, humanity, imagination, irony, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
Tear-Tainted Sail...In the beginning this boat was bare,
Greenest with infant's sinless stare;
Before soles more selfish than sane
Had trodden its dreary derelict main.
First to blacken its still-tiptop form
......
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Categories:
bloodier, age, allegory, allusion, betrayal,
Form:
Elegy