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Best Eye For An Eye Poems

Below are the all-time best Eye For An Eye poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of eye for an eye poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to...

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Categories: eye for an eye, society,
Form: Quatrain



Hawk
On this mountaintop I sit
In solitude reclined –

For such a heightened lift
Soul-weary did I climb
The world foresworn – a bit
(My aching heart inclined)

A flowing form...

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Categories: eye for an eye, bird, mountains, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Measure For Measure
An eye for an eye
Soon the world was blind
A place full of misery 
Not one person was kind

People chose to get even
They believed in blow...

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Categories: eye for an eye, corruption, earth, eulogy, pride,
Form: Quatrain
To Cut the Corner of Your Coat
(Giving voice to those who suffered and believe in poetic justice)

Should I cut the corner of your coat?
Too many times you tried to squeeze my...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eye for an eye, abuse, anti bullying, forgiveness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Angel
Note: This is a sequel to the previous poem "Idiot" with the imagination of what if..................    


Angel


I have awoken from my nightmares
I...

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Categories: eye for an eye, angel, child, evil, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



War Mentality
They come from a different era
where patriotism is a just cause
they would fight for the true blue
never mind who was right or wrong

they stood staunch...

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© Ron Flatow  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eye for an eye, angst, death, history, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frequency
“Frequency” 

we are separated 
from the others
by a thin membrane

electromagnetic

we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own

frequency

existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately 

that which...

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Categories: eye for an eye, future, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Old West
Lord what I'd give to go back in time.
Meet historical legends Wyatt Earp,
 Or Jessie James, let them leap off 
The written page, and live...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eye for an eye, death, fantasy, freedom, imagination,
Form: Free verse
A Monoku For Peace
An eye for an eye ~ blinds us to see ~ beauty and love in you and me...

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Categories: eye for an eye, love, peace, world,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Unblinking Third Eye
              call it what your will . . . 
  ...

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Categories: eye for an eye, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ain'T That My Clue
I saw you with him
and him kissin’ you.
Ain’t that my clue darlin’,
ain’t that my clue?

Your eye and my eye 
ain’t seein’ the same
Ain’t that a...

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Categories: eye for an eye, emotions, feelings, goodbye, how
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Romance, Passion Shown In Those Bright Blue Eyes
Romance, Passion Shown In Those Bright Blue Eyes

Her bright blue eyes that my soul so endears
warms needy heart, sends it passionate cheers
as if a golden...

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Categories: eye for an eye, art, creation, inspiration, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Am Iron Man
It was once said, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth".
Revenge isn't really sweet, but it is a bit uncouth.
You were...

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Categories: eye for an eye, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nonviolence
No need for violence or aggression
A passive acceptance of oppression 
A powerful tool for social protest
To be peaceful and not violence many will resist
It presumes...

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Categories: eye for an eye, black african american, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member So Are You
Like a rose in the shade of a tree,
So are you as you stand beside me;
You are lovely and breathe purity:
I your shade and protection...

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Categories: eye for an eye, assonance, muse, people, simile,
Form: Rhyme

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