Best Slaughterhouse Poems
Slaughterhousecomets strike terror
bombing nations rapid fire...
a slaughterhouse roasts
spiked towers pierce flesh…
drenched with blood of raw corpses
like clotheslines on trees
from skies tainted black
grounds crumble into thin rust…
world in drained sandbag
then, God says enough
angels swoop to tend remains…
guarding earth anew
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Categories:
slaughterhouse, confusion, time,
Form:
Haiku
A Slaughterhouse EscapeA tractor trailer with slats and moos
pulls up at a city slaughterhouse.
The driver pulls the wrong lever
and two thousand pounds
of trotting cattle go for an easy
ramble down the street.
Cop cars follow in no hurry.
Police don’t have lassos and
wouldn't know how...
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Categories:
slaughterhouse, poverty,
Form:
Blank verse
Slaughterhouse Newsyet they thrive.
there's no other way: they like the soap opera.
subliminal, it opens a hole in their brains.
then they sleep lobotomized,
to wake up lambs with stale bread in the morning,
happy and huddled together on the train heading to the slaughterhouse.
Carpe Dien, says the old woman...
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Categories:
slaughterhouse, death, life, work,
Form:
Free verse
Candle of the WorldIt is the slaughterhouse of love for both of us
My soul is tired of this story
The caravan of a loyal friend is easy
Keep me, my family, my life, keep me
But if my way is easy
Follow your path, I know my mirror
Shadowed, I ask for a...
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Categories:
slaughterhouse, adventure, baby, best friend,
Form:
Free verse