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Best Strangler Poems


The Jazz Hand Strangler
somewhere along the evolutionary spectrum
some wires were crossed &
when s/he realized their utter disgust for humanity
coupled with an urge for blood & guts
(all the things that whip up a snazzy b-horror film),
alas,
it was too late---
it was too late because the momma figure
she took him/her to...

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Categories: strangler, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Strangler Untold
This is my story, the strangler untold.
I, Al DeSalvo strangled 13 women totaled.
I struck within the night of day,
leaving not one clue astray.
Confessing to these crimes brought me fame,
but burdened my family with unending shame.
Sitting in my prison cell,
deep inside I hide a secret only...

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Categories: strangler, murder, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Frog Strangler
The Frog Strangler
(Idiom for a torrential rain)
Miracle Man
5/2/2022

With little variant, rain came straight down, 
winds whisper was so faint it couldn’t be heard.
Bar ditches, now so full of water a frog could drown,
but by this rain my spirit remains undeterred.

Though frogs are amphibians much unlike...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strangler, humor, rain, weather,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



A Glandular Strangler We Should Deter
A Glandular Strangler We Should Deter

Greeted general area that is glandular,
When he started becoming a strangler;
Grotesque glands;
Spastic hands,
Who we should be sure to try to deter.

Jim Horn...

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Categories: strangler, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things