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Best Cannibal Poems

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Premium Member Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots Dialect
Thar was nae richt ae laddie sair
wha heft a cave 'side Galloway,
wi' nae jaiken he griftit dare
as he was nae tae lippen tae.

Ill-naitur'd  fishwife...

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Categories: cannibal, history,
Form: Quatrain



Cannibal Cat
Cannibal Cat
I do not like this cat I saw
Grey of belly, head and paw
He came into our neighborhood
I swear this cat’s up to no good
Sure...

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Categories: cannibal, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Things Change
A quote from "90 North" by Randall Jarrell:
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from darkness -- that the darkness flung me --
is...

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Categories: cannibal, age, best friend, boy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Am An Owl
I hunt my prey, late dusk or night
     With wings so quiet in my flight
It's hard to see me up in...

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Categories: cannibal, bird, imagery, tribute,
Form: Personification
Man's Greatest Enemy
Why, the greatest enemy of man is man
for man has subdued everything else
Fear not the tiger, fear the murderer's plan
Just hearken well to what history...

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Categories: cannibal, conflict, corruption, society, war,
Form: Quatrain



And the Band Played On....Part I
Piranhas, within a canaries cannibal world....

Feasting upon the flesh, of another innocent and vulnerable life

Delivered by the hands of darkness' entrenched; unknowing but willing, messengers...

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Categories: cannibal, life, love, people, time
Form: I do not know?
A Peale Paradox
'"The power
of positive thinking"
in this hour
of humanities' stinking
is 
insanity.

When we kill
and maim
in our free will
democracy game
its hard to remember
we hold a distinction
as the highest ...

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© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cannibal, history, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Beyond Simple
Simple Simon met a cannibal
Going to the fair...

He never made it...

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Categories: cannibal, desire, destiny, food, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Cannibals Are People Too
Leaning toward cannibalism?
You might want to give it a go
Overall they're not a bad lot,
They are people too, you know

Paranoia runs quite rampant 
Amongst any...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cannibal, character, community, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Different Gifts
Now you know all of us
were endowed by our Creator
with different various gifts,
some of us can write, some of
us can draw, some of us just...

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Categories: cannibal, humor, people,
Form: Light Verse
Coco the Clown
Coco the clown went sailing one day 
to a holiday destination far far away

Suddenly, the sky went dark and the wind did blow
and the waves...

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© Wayne Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cannibal, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Ballad of the Bomb

Megalomaniacs, from any era,
all have the killer extinct gene
A beastly desire to bring everything
to the brink of nothing
Oh, how some would love to channel 
their...

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Categories: cannibal, dark, death, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Elegy
Happiness and Racism
Mark Scott-Crossley 
and Simon Mathebula
Tied up Nelson Chisale
and beat him with machetes

dumping him in
with white lions
Africa Learned 
to hate the Whites

Yet this is only
one white...

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Categories: cannibal, anti bullying, evil, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Seven Wonders of the World
' Seven wonders' 
Seven wonders are in the world,
Get to the point that never hurled,
Follows are the seven wonders,
Get to the efforts to pass the...

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Categories: cannibal, beauty, creation, history, memorial
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Zombie Apocalypse
Nature's gone insane;
Cannibal cadavers creep.
Zombie apocalypse......

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Categories: cannibal, confusion, death, fear, scary,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Reflection on the Important Things