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Best Slaughter Poems

Below are the all-time best Slaughter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slaughter poems written by PoetrySoup members


Forgotten Heroes of the Somme
Over the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...

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Categories: slaughter, brother, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Still I Run
I race for summer's setting sun
as crimson bleed the alder leaves
and still I run.  And still I run.

My rival, time, is yet undone.
Past pyramids...

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Categories: slaughter, autumn, death, truth,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: slaughter, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pause My Poetry
You can bleed me blind,
execute my eyes, 
victimize my vision, 
immolate my imagery, 
nullify my name, 
suppress me into silence, 
slaughter my soul, 
execute my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slaughter, angst, poetry, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part Two
Achilles, The Journey To Troy, 
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)

Achilles, The Journey To Troy

Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...

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Categories: slaughter, art, death, hero, literature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

In the deep core of her skin
I feel a human who is no saint  
Cutting out her heart, ripping everything to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slaughter, abuse, beauty, dark, emo,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Thats a Sin
A whole new twist to the same old story
Evil scientist in their laboratories
Creating monsters that live in the night
I often reflect on mankind's plight
As mankind...

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Categories: slaughter, confusion, faith, life, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ba Ba Bad Shepherd Boy
Watery eyed thoughts came,
Zap! Pow!  a short circuited brain.
Inward turned burned ocular pain,
too many thoughts to restrain 
I’m a cheap sheep making my mistakes...

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Categories: slaughter, angst, anxiety, betrayal, child
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THE STORY OF BABY ELLIE

Ellie was just three months old,
When she was brought to our sanctuary,
A safe haven was our fold.
She was an orphan, her mother,
Her sister, her aunt,...

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Categories: slaughter, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poets In Denial
Sing ye poets of stunning birds and butterflies wings.
Kiss ye, your own,Muse pen, on divine parchment, scribblings!

Ride in gentle winds upon your colorful, faux unicorn
Your...

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Categories: slaughter, humanity, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Paris the 13th
Paris the 13th

Tears, my tears fall to wine
As I can not comprehend this horrendous crime
Men filled with such spiteful hate
Islamic teachings seal their fate
Kill and...

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Categories: slaughter, death, dedication, freedom, humanity,
Form: Light Verse
Come Hell Or High Water
She looks out the window and sees him in the distance. 
So much fear inside leaves no room for resistance. 
If she ran right now...

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Categories: slaughter, abuse, anxiety, fear, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: slaughter, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Egnehenots: Earth and Stone
Egnehenots – of earth and stone

Chief elder – most wise upon the Salisbury Plain
     an old man . . . ...

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Categories: slaughter, life, light, love,
Form: Free verse
I, a Red Skin Dog, As Some May Delight To Call Me,
I, a Red Skin dog, as some may delight to call me,
I have heard the tales of horror, from my dark skinned foes.
I have heard...

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Categories: slaughter, death, war, woman, red,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs