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Best Butchery Poems

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Kingdom of Ruin

Rising from the desert sand
was a shimmering mirage
of a thousand shouts
	Heated winds of fanaticism,
	intense and blowing violently loud
Shrill calls to blood prayer seethe,
breathing fiery invocations
of...

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Categories: butchery, death, judgement, religious, truth,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Making Plans For You
(SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE 1917)

It’s just another starry night
all is at peace before the storm,
Yet so afraid am I, of the impending summer’s day 
now the...

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Categories: butchery, war,
Form: Lyric
Anti-Christ Anthem
You're wearing the cap with the crooked cross emblem,
hoisting your neo-Nazi flag high
You dream of a revived Fourth Reich kingdom,
hoping that you see it before...

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Categories: butchery, allegory, hate, religion, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Elephant's Ghost
This poem is a re-post from last year for the situation is worsening daily.

ELEPHANT’S GHOST
I am represented as a trinket on a 
Human's wrist.
I was...

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Categories: butchery, death,
Form: Rhyme
Tomorrow
Hells stone fury cannot find me here
The raging of the dawning light cannot be the one within us
I am perpetually hidden within this wound of...

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Categories: butchery, depression
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member The Dove
Dedicated to Robert Lindley. Warning this tale is dark.

THE DOVE

A bloody stain upon the sheets, how cruel!
Soulless weight of the wretched beast who’d rule.
With his...

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Categories: butchery, abuse, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wounded Sigh
Written: March 28, 2024 For Edward Ibeh Contest
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It is a...

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Categories: butchery, appreciation, bereavement, voice,
Form: Rhyme
A Call To Youth
Rise up young man
speak your mind 
let your voice be heard
let the world know 
what's inside your head

Rise up young man
tell the world what you...

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Categories: butchery, encouraging, inspirational, youth,
Form: Free verse
White Gold
Feel the smoothness, wonder at the skill.
These delicate carved ornaments of delight
Pure white to a faint tan, each piece unique
To touch, to feel, brings senses...

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Categories: butchery, emotions, political,
Form: Verse
Surgical Blue
That mad doctor wants to rip me open, head to toe, I just know it!

His scalpel is sharpened and hungry for a slice of flesh;...

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Categories: butchery, health, me, satire,
Form: Free verse
Childhood Extract
Imagine the weight of the air in that house
which in the summer months would strangle you,
wearing heated gloves. Tough luck.
A gulf of emotion that is...

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Categories: butchery, angst, introspection, life, me,
Form: Free verse
All That Was Sparta
Our lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
     Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;     
 Ravens, uttering guttural...

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Categories: butchery, myth,
Form: Rhyme
I Eat
I am in the entrails of rot, 
A mock of the human mind,
A plea and a drain

I eat and I eat and I eat
The faith...

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Categories: butchery, crazy, dark, horror, life,
Form: Free verse
Alone
This is as philosophical
As keeping the count, 
Binoculars trained
For a whale 
That will never spout,
This is not the season,
Hamlet knew.

The Pilgrim knew,
As did the Wife...

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Categories: butchery, imagination, life, mystery,
Form: Blank verse
When Death Comes
When death comes, sordid, scary
I shall not fret, as others do be
I shall not be shaken, not in the least measure
But will welcome him with...

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Categories: butchery, grave, horror,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs