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Best Slaughterhouse Poems

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Premium Member Slaughterhouse
comets 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...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, confusion, time,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Building Tension
That night, in a strange place
I was like a fly
Circling a street light
Reeling…Reeling!
I felt so alone
Fear wrenched my throat
Couldn’t predict
When I would be charred to...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, angst, fear, lost, night,
Form: Free verse
Stitched Beauty

The surgeon generals 
are scalpel meeting once again
Fear doktors of war
are planning to raise another mar
on Earth’s topographical skin

Pigmented epidermal cells
are being prosperity lullabied put...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, allusion, truth, wisdom, world,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Halloween Havoc
Michael Myers is hiding because I'm holding my pen
The horrific poet full of emotions and sins 
You talk like you've seen madness 
Well you're in...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slaughterhouse, courage, depression, fun, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Uppity Darkie


Light minded people say I’m an uppity darkie
They color me bad, 
with a black face, felt pen Sharpie
Vanilla voices downright don’t like
the audio sounds of...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, allusion, prejudice, racism, truth,
Form: Bio



Premium Member Courthouse Lobby
In the lobby of the courthouse
People’s demeanor
Are such a telltale
Casual and comfortable
The secretaries
Determined and debonair
The lawyers
Focused and unperturbed
The judges
And then the others
With scowls on their...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, anxiety, people, perspective, stress,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Voiceless
"While many are silenced by authority, some are voiceless as they have no courage to protest. But some prefer voicelessness for convenience sake which is...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, angst, destiny, silence,
Form: Free verse
Unstuck In Time
From my younger days as a prisoner of war,
to my last days on the planet Tralfamadore,
with my traveling through time, I have no control.
Both good...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, adventure
Form: Rhyme
The Drone's Retort
If I'm to be the neck
you fit inside a noose,
then spin me up a soul.

When you can define it -
and find it -
you let me...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, computer, conflict, death, future,
Form: Alliteration
Opting Out
So at 47 I have arrived.
A position most disconcerting,
Troubling? Nay,
Downright disturbing!
A blatant assault.!
An ego in default.
Should have steered left, 
Perhaps joined a cult.

Having settled back...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, age, beauty, desire, hope,
Form: Narrative
Prayer Solemnizing Vitality
Wise no adulation, dedication and gratification 
   not emphasized the other three hundred and sixty four days a year
question their role as consumed...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, adventure, america, boat, courage,
Form: Epic
Hard Lessons Before Cgi
It happened many years ago, just after World War ll.
When I was just a little girl with lots to see and do.
A visit to my...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, dark, death, sad, scary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Locked Room Ii
Everyone knows where the key is….
Yes, the key to open the door that separates
vile darkness from ordinary darkness,
when the lights are out. 

No one wants...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, dark, death, fear, horror,
Form: Narrative
Roast Beef Rare
roast beef (rare) had looks beyond compare
his face was rosy and blush
without a trace of stubble or gristle
he was suave and clean
a beef lovers dream
hard...

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© Fern Carle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slaughterhouse, humorous, satire, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Three Roles
Over stand these R the 3 characters we play
U can become aware begin changing & Evolving 2day
What will happen 2 U the sheep if U...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, character, education, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs