Best Violent Death Poems

The occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And...

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Daughter

Your face mirrors mine,
As mine does my mothers.

Your smile is a smirk
That  quickly explodes
Into sublime lightness.

Your skin has a blush
As does plums true wine,
When...

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Rosabella met her maker on Halloween night
It was an unnatural death . . .
Death met her in the maple forest
On the edge of town
She lay...

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So many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.

But Virgil told : “What for you...

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I was a little girl     holding mothers hand-
unprepared for the      harsh and brutal   ...

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Nations and nationalities, you are not chocolate,
you are the sweetest Jam cooked from bitter labour!
You are the original egg, the supreme cause of war and...

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O my tv's had a gray, gray screen
Since it blew up last June.
The radio plays no melody.
The piano's out of tune.

Alas! My ipod's ceased to...

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I was at work in Chicago when shots were fired in Memphis.             ...

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1	A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
		The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
		It casts an orb three hundred stories high
		Over the Sun and...

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Pandora's Box

The skies rip apart
Filling with a hot white fire
The winds blow both hot and cold
Burning and freezing
Birds are replaced by black dragons
Smoking cinders fall...

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Reprehensible Savagery ©

'Pon reading tragic headline...,
     aye experienced grief alone,
no matter the killer (Chris Watts,
     thirty-three years
...

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o my dear mother, please do not grieve on this tragic death
the death that your son has to under go

although, as a son, i had...

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On sand soaked with blood,
two young men are breathing hard.
The taller one has armor,
a sword and a net.
His opponent has only
an arm guard and a...

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Like the willow leaves
Merely! runs forward. 
Then soothingly or almost 
the shadow of shadow
A distance in the dark
towards the road, 
went to evanescence

Has been under
The...

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I met my maker on Halloween night,     Halloween night, a night for horror,
It was an unnatural death;    ...

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