Best Homicide Poems
Below are the all-time best Homicide poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of homicide poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
homicide, america,
Form:
Free verse
Fighting GodYou 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
Imagine ThatIf 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
The Bodie LynchingsFive 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
The Ballad of Goodie-Two-ShoesMy 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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Categories:
homicide, life,
Form:
Ballad
Halloween and the Yellow RoseThe 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 Poisonlove 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: 18The 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 MomI 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
Categories:
homicide, poems, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Battle RapLet’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 WorthLadies, 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 TaleRemember 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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Categories:
homicide, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Tsk TskHomicide 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
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