Best Detective Poems

The Serial Detective

I turned the last page,
It is time to say “goodbye.”
We embraced most of many days,
My tears are salty, though your eyes are dry.

I’ll...

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Behind a chair 
        Below a desk
 with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama...

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Try leave behind "Book Of The Week"
And head upstairs where floorboards creak.

Where people tilt their heads to look
At every spine on every book.

Where murderers and...

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A double sonnet in which the great detective and his faithful sidekick, Dr. Watson, alternately deduce the cause of Sherlock’s latest malady…

Part the first
Sherlock could...

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There was no finer detective than Inspector Thaddeus Tweede of Scotland Yard!
He was most astute in solving crimes and could quickly detect a fake canard!
He...

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Hickory, dickory, dock.
Jerry the mouse ran up the clock
Tom smelled him from afar
Jumped up on top like a star.

Jerry as always was quite wise.
And with...

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Why wouldn’t you cut me loose from the strings that bind us 
You had left me dangling from a marriage that once united us together
The...

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The Capitalist


It was dark out
winds from the north
branches swaying over granite graves
The night seemed ominous

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	Have been thinking about a funeral...

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Beneath the fathom’s deep, in wreckage’s graveyard
Of the forgotten, here the broken bones of ships lie still,
Covered in a forest of seaweeds greenery.
Corrosion steel hauls...

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I am not a detective or a sleuth, 
but what I write about is only the truth.
You are not going to like what I have...

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My life hasn’t always been easy...
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THE GATE OF DEATH
 
I will shut my gate; and no man can open it.
And if I open it; all men shall come in once...

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The sunset underlines divine visage as it shines above the lake
Before the stars ornamenting curtain of night will awake
The tired police sergeant drives home from...

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Who cut the curd cyanide cheese,
thinning out the rank suspect crowd?
Who gassed death in the air bleed,
releasing an odor murder most foul?

Follow the phew olfactory...

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The consumate sleuth Sherlock Holmes
Hardly lacking the wit chromosomes
With the faintest of clues
To bemuse and confuse
Cracked crimes in the Welsh catacombs



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

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