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Premium Member death penalty
shedders 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 love go~
death it does seek...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penalty, abortion, love hurts,
Form: Senryu
England Won a Penalty Shootout
Many years of dreaming and searching
Will this be the year we finally stop hurting? 
I can't believe these words are coming from my mouth 
I can finally say England won a penalty Shootout

Three lions on our shirt and we won't be caged
This will be the...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penalty, football, fun, funny, soccer,
Form: Free verse
Death Penalty
Death Penalty


Sonny Johnson’s home was on the street
   Sharing space with rats who nibbled at his feet
Until he moved his blanket to the county jail
   ‘Cause someone said he stabbed a white female

He faced the court without a scrap of money
...

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Categories: penalty, death,
Form:

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The Death Penalty
I’m a little firework
Halfway towards the sky
That’s burnt out to dust
Into nothingness
And now I have to die.

I was a crow, flying through a tree
Tried to slalom through the branches.
The thorns clipped my wings
Here the handcuffs cling
Because of my murderous advances.

I’m a crooked atheist
I don’t believe...

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Categories: penalty, angst, death, faith, philosophy,
Form:
Death Penalty
I was good, 
You turned me bad,
We hijacked her,
I was caught 
I was taken and locked up,
You were still free,
I hate you for this life I live now,
In fear knowing I’ll die,
I stood by you while you killed her,
You murderer,
You monster,
I get blamed, and you...

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Categories: penalty, death,
Form: Free verse
Penalty
It only made sense to me-

like I only wade in destiny,

like I only drink very dark tea,
on summer mornings when they are scorching...

It only made sense to me,

like it's scoring the dividers detracting O' tall and torry,
at the worried hello sojourning,

...of a next year's encouraged
deuteronomy,

and...

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Categories: penalty, allusion, confusion, crush, fear,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member Death Penalty
Pretending a pregnancy,
Killed a pregnant lady;
Carved out baby for her own;
Child now 16; killer was executed Tuesday.

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Categories: penalty, child, murder, sorrow,
Form: Couplet
A Warm Penalty
Your penalty for the last night's fight - a warm hug...

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Categories: penalty, love hurts,
Form: Monoku
A Penalty For August
While the ancients sleep drunken dreams
in an August haze of torpor,
reheated by a relentless sun,
when the grills and water torches light up
the night with feasts of raucous laughter,
the sealed sweat from that riotous time
begins floating upward.
Fastening onto mariner's winds;
coalescing past curious birds;
savoring the sterling starlight;hardening...

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Categories: penalty, nature
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life in the Penalty Box
The course of life is like a game,
that many play for wealth and fame.
The rate of play can be so fast,
that many players do not last.

Millions fall in the game of life,
through causes that are all too rife.
Many have keeled over and died,
while others have...

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Categories: penalty, character, encouraging, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme
Heart Penalty
So many feelings
So many insecurities
Over-thinking everything

Marching like a criminal 
To the beat of my own car-crash
Lingering in the fire of defeat

Must I meet your hollow empty friends?
Deaf
I dare not stay 

Take me back
Back to the beginning

Heart spun
Blindly singing to the sun

You nailed my head to...

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© Skyy Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: penalty, love,
Form: Free verse
Penalty
PENALTY

                                   This desert- sands dust heat
     ...

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Categories: penalty, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
Penalty For Crimes
Sudden outburst of Natural Disease 
to mankind
Hatred in love
Pleasure in Enimity
Curse in prayers
Holiness in protitutes
Castrated saints
Speaking animals
Living with no dime
Symbols of endtime
Sour like watered lime
The question is.....
Are we being blamed for our 
crimes?...

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Categories: penalty, absence
Form: ABC
Premium Member Amnesty
Total amnesty is absent
In this world
For heavy guilt and penalty
In front of law the fairness
Humanity and democracy
Total amnesty is only 
In front of God
But God knows your sincerity
Your degree of repentance
Repentance is not
To escape from penalty
To escape from responsibility
To search for another chance 
To repeat...

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Categories: penalty, god, repetition, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Showing Muscle and a Hustle
Thackray thought up a plan 
To get three points for the west hams 
Called upon Antonio to do a task 
“Fetch my friend a theatrical mask 
Tell the canary meet for a luncheon 
Of course at his dungeon 
There will be no bubbles to burst...

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Categories: penalty, character, england, fantasy, football,
Form: Rhyme

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