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Best Homicide Poems

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Premium Member Homicide




Verbicide is sometimes committed in my works

Those works could be perdures forever
             ...

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Categories: homicide, america,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fighting God
You promised to take care of me like a new cherished bride
I cling to it, waiting until at the point of suicide
now your expectations and...

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Categories: homicide, anger, christian, conflict, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Imagine That
If there was no crime
No hurry for time
No genocide
No homicide
If there was no mothers burying their sons
If mankind didn't invent guns
If schools still had prayer
If...

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Categories: homicide, inspirational, philosophy, social, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Bodie Lynchings
Five strangers rode into Bodie, a small gold mining town
They didn't look at anybody and kept their heads down
At the Citizens bank they halted, it...

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Categories: homicide, america, death, horse, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Ballad of Goodie-Two-Shoes
My mother went to heaven on the day that I was born
My father raised me up before my mother he would join
He said, “Son, to...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: homicide, life,
Form: Ballad



Halloween and the Yellow Rose
The day my mother was taken from me 'Halloween'
     fifty she had just turned the golden years she so much yearned
...

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Categories: homicide, betrayal, death, dedication, grief,
Form: Elegy
Love Is a Poison
love is a vicious posion
 that has no comparison.
 the black death, aids, cancer, ebola
 are not even close to its ranpit death toll.
 homicide...

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Categories: homicide, death, love hurts, metaphor,
Form: I do not know?
No-Name No: 18
The world burns apart,
like paper over candle.
The only breaking point 
that this planet couldn't handle.
Something turns to nothing
and that nothing's what remains,
that nothing turns to...

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Categories: homicide, anger, dark, lost, planet,
Form: Rhyme
The Other Mom
I was laying on the beach
On a hot August morn
A sudden pain in my gut
I knew that something was wrong
It's Eddie.  I felt it...

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Categories: homicide, death, mother, sad, son,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Poem Goes Clunk In the Night
~ An Extremely Shallow Poem 
       with nothing significant
          ...

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Categories: homicide, poems, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Battle Rap
Let’s take this outside
Your turn to be objectified
Necktied offside and brutified
Come step outside
Where you can no longer hide
Now you and me can collide

You’re worse than...

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Categories: homicide, abuse, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Woman's Worth
Ladies, since birth
We need to know what we are worth
The pearl between our legs
is what everyman begs
Before opening them wide
value your pride
Speak knowledge out of...

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Categories: homicide, black african american, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse
"eggicide" a Humpty Dumpty Tale
Remember Humpty Dumpty
Who fell off the wall?
Well, it wasn't no accident
We can prove he didn't fall

It was a government conspiracy
They were testing a new glue
They...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: homicide, funny
Form: Rhyme
Tsk Tsk
Homicide and genocide
Need punishments to be applied
And fratricide and suicide
Are awful – that can’t be denied.

But something else I can’t abide,
Although, in this case, no...

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Categories: homicide, words,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The White Lady of Skipsea
"The White Lady of Skipsea"


Last night I dreamt 
I dreamed of you
a kind of dream 
within a dream

Diaphanous, 
my soul escaped, 
this firmament,
my immaculate heart
held...

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Categories: homicide, dark, fantasy, gothic, history,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs