Best Punishment Poems

bits? crumbs? dregs?
smoothed-over leftovers?

     No, thank you
     I've had enough.

5/14/2019...

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It’s raining hammers and nails
The storms are rusty
And hang in the sky
The pews are shadowed
And the apse is silent
Sinners are upon their knees
Darkness descends upon the day
A lantern swings in the storm
The executioner is hooded
Silent and cold
A shadow upon the Mother Mary
Jesus has nothing to...

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Troy, The Defeat, Odysseus Punishment

Apollo, the archer-god, was quite unfair
Slew Eurytus for a vain archery boast
Mortal lives he had so very little care
Sending Greek ships sailing to the coast

Helen of Sparta, beauty beyond compare
face that launched a thousand ships
She of perfect face , body and...

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been sentenced to death
appeals process has expired
high voltage, seat wired...

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Loving you is cruel and unusual punishment.

When I met you, I should have started running to a tent.

I simply can't handle it. This  is cruel and unusual punishment.

You dropped the bomb on me and I cannot pick up the pieces.

Your love to me was...

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Capital punishment

When a state
Kills a convicted murderer
The state
Becomes like the killer 
Murdering the defenseless 
In the toxic word 
Of justice...

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Crime & Punishment
By 
Tom Wright

There once was a scoundrel called Black Bart,
Who thought appropriating bank money was smart.
Until the sheriff got wind,
And to his jail he did send,
When in court he begged the judge to have heart.
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(I think I made a mistake in the title I gave this.  That's why it got so few reads.  For any who already read it, I apologize.  This is a shameless attempt to garner more reads.)  

In These Cases, We Have...

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Capital punishment
What year is it
I'm being spank with a switch
I am guilty
Mama whooping me
In 1960's
With a switch
a belt
some schools then a 2 by 4 paddle
For what I've done wrong
Lying the stealing
Who am I to call foul
God knows I know ma and pa do to
Even Jesus...

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment 8th Amendment

Of particular news was a protrusion
Upsetting people with a serious infusion
About proportion of a pharmaceutical
Enough to raise and curl your cuticle
Cruel and unusual punishment create an exclusion.

This should be blocked and not allowed 
to exist in our society. According to
Code...

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It's over.
 
Two words of escape.
 
That's all I could muster.
 
...I saw her face later that day,
and couldn't fathom why I had ever turned away.
 
I couldn't escape the possibility that it had been a mistake.
 
She's so beautiful, 
 
With her brown skin...

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In the cells of the king Edaroes
There are twelve royal girls with sore toes,
And  they will there be kept
For at night when all slept,
They slipped out and danced holes in their shoes....

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Through shadowed trails beneath the moon’s cold stare.
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace in my gut
     No slumber dreamt; no answer could I get.

Eurasian owl with orbs of liquid flame
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She barks, "Turn your cheek!"
She leaves her handprint on it.
"And now the other!"...

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A zig of happiness sparked the upper peninsulas
Of my wildebeest heart, a mere tich.
Could that teensy beginning shake my
Anger, which I had determinedly
Held onto for three weeks longer
Than anyone sane should have?

Come on, the spark said, laughing. Come
And play. We can be mad tomorrow.
I was...

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