Best Death Penalty Poems
Below are the all-time best Death Penalty poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of death penalty poems written by PoetrySoup members
death penaltyshedders shards hover
if there is not a purpose~
life has no meaning
limb amputation
your life left in a child's hand~
a burden you are
soul shattered remains,
where did eternal...
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Categories:
death penalty, abortion, love hurts,
Form:
Senryu
Black and WhiteIn the visiting room evening's ebony is shellacking everything.
He sits across from me at the sable-shaded table, in shades,
pours black coffee pungent as the Gauloises...
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Categories:
death penalty, life, murder, prison,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
death penalty, dark, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
The Execution of Paul CarterMy name is Paul Carter and I want to tell you my tragic story
About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of...
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Categories:
death penalty, america, dark, death, drink,
Form:
Narrative
Kevin BarryIrelands uprising in ninteen sixteen was crushed by the state
The ringleaders were arrested and death would be their fate
Charged with the crime of treason against...
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Categories:
death penalty, death, england, ireland, murder,
Form:
Narrative
The Prisoner** A protest against the hypocrisy of the death penalty and the decadent environment of the prison system where a simple thief or criminal is...
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Categories:
death penalty, prison,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
death penalty, earth, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Seven YearsSEVEN YEARS
It’s been seven years since I last saw stars
Because of seven years behind iron bars
Seven years of the horrible indoors
Seven years of cleaning toilet...
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Categories:
death penalty, prison,
Form:
Free verse
Unwillingly DyingI sat in the court room and watched all the jurors eyes. They were so innnocent
and so ignorant as they looked upon my husbands...
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Categories:
death penalty, life, sorry, sympathy, day,
Form:
I do not know?
Love and Courage
About Lucey, a Ragdoll Cat: Saved from Death
Lucey was my feline dream!
I had never seen such love from a cat's eyes
~ so heavenly stream.
No, I...
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Categories:
death penalty, art, beautiful, love,
Form:
Couplet
The Chicago Haymarket Riot of 1886
It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led...
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Categories:
death penalty, history, death, men, work,
Form:
Rhyme
I Won'T Obey Laws That Condemn ManI won't be obedient,
I'll be defiant
Of laws that have no compassion.
I won't obey laws that condemn man.
A law that stops beggars begging,
So they can't eat...
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Categories:
death penalty, conflict, corruption, courage, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Jessica Mccord: Selfish AssassinIt was February 2002 (WWF Raw, WWF SmackDown!, and WWF No Way Out), that Jessica McCord and her then-husband, Jeff, killed Alan Bates and his...
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Categories:
death penalty, daughter, death, father, funeral,
Form:
Bio
Death SpeaksDeath Speaks
As I walk through the valley of death bullets penetrate and opens up my chest.
I am slumped on the cement with scatter brain...
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Categories:
death penalty, brother, character, community, death,
Form:
Light Verse
I'M Your Last ShelterCome to me, pretty boy,
Not knowing that you are going to die.
You're a nice guy, tanned,
You will leave the firmament of the...
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Categories:
death penalty, fire, magic, religion, sad,
Form:
Verse