Best Raising Cain Poems

Battalions march
on blood soaked darkened red sand,
         Able tears to wash......

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Mother tried to raise Cain,
To carry a righteous name,
But in that he could not abide,
For he lost his soul to homicide.

Abel’s blood was obliviously found,
Staining,...

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One always sees a familiar face
At every international place
So many believe
That Adam & Eve
Were Mum & Dad to the whole human race

Well, now you know...

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She kept it all inside her
and never spoke a word,
though her thoughts flew and darted
like a trapped and frantic bird.

Inside her was a garden
that was...

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 Continued from Part 2 

5. MIDNIGHT DREAMS 
At night the soldiers sometimes dream
of many things which make them scream,
like
     ...

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I'm so smart I can fool myself
but I'm too stupid to figure me out
pull back the curtain remove the doubt
I think therefore, I am over...

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Adam had no parents, no uncles and no aunts.
Psychologists would have given him not the slightest chance.

Dysfunctional from the beginning; no siblings in his life,
Perhaps...

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Change Directions
By Curtis Johnson

We think that it’s a weeping pity and a crying shame for things to be this or that way.
We blame teachers, parents,...

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King


Raising Cain or raising Abel.
Raising Hell upon a table.
Raising flour, picked a flower that I liked.
Lost it in an hour; dead flowers covered in spikes.
Raisins...

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SWEET HOME

PEOPLE WALKIN’ AND TALKIN’, MAKIN’ A WHOLE 
LOTA’ NOISE!
NOBODY ‘SOUL STIRS’ NO MORE!

IT’S THE CITY LIGHTS WITH THEIR ATTITUDE 
LIKE IT AIN’T NICE WHERE...

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My son-in-law’s and daughter’s dynamic duo dogs:

THAT DOG DON’T HUNT

Fond of saying, that dog don’t hunt,
yet his Springer flies through the air
with the greatest of...

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Of the many uses of the brain
   ~ Not one of them's for raising cain...

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Once upon a time; hard to tell which piece.
Somewhere between reality and myth, 
lies forge an identity lost on peace.
Keen bellows; hammer strikes unveil the...

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