Get Your Premium Membership

Best Death And Destruction Poems


Premium Member Death and Destruction
Having been a journalist for the past forty years, now ready to make my final accord, I had to cover this one last story.  My days have been long, and my shuteye has been short.  In a small village with a population of...

Continue reading...
Categories: death and destruction, sorrow,
Form: Haibun
She Thought I Couldn'T Write a Song Not About Dope, Death and Destruction
this was written strictly because she wanted to bet and i won!
        I WONDER IF ONE EVER FEELS HEAVY IN HEAVEN

I will sing you to a star
No matter how very far
I will bring you to the sun
No matter...

Continue reading...
Categories: death and destruction, romancewrite, star, me, star,
Form: Quintain (English)
She Thought I Couldn'T Write a Song Not About Dope, Death and Destruction
this was written strictly because she wanted to bet and i won!
        I WONDER IF ONE EVER FEELS HEAVY IN HEAVEN

I will sing you to a star
No matter how very far
I will bring you to the sun
No matter...

Continue reading...
Categories: death and destruction, romancewrite, star, me, star,
Form: Quintain (English)

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



She Thought I Couldn'T Write a Song Not About Dope, Death and Destruction
this was written strictly because she wanted to bet and i won!
        I WONDER IF ONE EVER FEELS HEAVY IN HEAVEN

I will sing you to a star
No matter how very far
I will bring you to the sun
No matter...

Continue reading...
Categories: death and destruction, romancewrite, star, me, star,
Form: Quintain (English)
Hate, Death, and Destruction Vs. Creativity
Never would I have believed,
Such things could be true,
That people would conceive such evil,
In their unGodly desire to hurt you...

Your crime?: existence
You have no right-
Just ask a holocaust survivor
of their Nazi plight...

Ask the dead in lower Manhattan,
Slain for a version of God,
In Arabic, not Hebrew...

Continue reading...
© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death and destruction, death, faith, history, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fruits of War's Futility, Death and Destruction
Fruits Of War's Futility, Death And Destruction

As glittering spit falls upon hot rocks
rare gemstones melt into a frigid sea
ailing ships lay about three fallen docks
hummingbird chases a dozen honeybees
irreparable desert begs sullen sky
for some rain, as winged bats vacation
from the fiends that pursue asking the...

Continue reading...
Categories: death and destruction, art, courage, death, loss,
Form: Rhyme




Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry