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CHANGING SOCIETY

... CHANGING SOCIETY If I could only stop abuse of child ! Most offensive crime, no need to comment Very easy for tormentor to hide : though subje......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme

Abolishing the Death Penalty: A Case for Humanity

...The death penalty, a practice rooted in antiquity, continues to evoke controversy and ethical dilemmas in modern society. Despite its purported role in deterring crime and administering justice, the ......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Humanity Uppn the Falling

...Humanity Upon the Falling Catastrophic predictions for humanities future Another universal wound that needs an international suture A forced appropriation into sacred laws and culture A non l......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, life,
Form: Rhyme

Humanity Uppn the Falling

Categories: capital punishment, life,
Form: Rhyme

Florida's First Electrocution Wasn't the Last

...In Florida state prison, a tale I'll unfold, The first electrocution, a story untold. Anguish, pain, in chambers of despair, A prisoner's torment, his soul stripped bare. Electric currents surg......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, 12th grade,
Form: Concrete

Absurdity

...Lo, Meursault, the hero, of the novel, 'the outsider', Is spun by absurdity, like the web of a spider. Neither religion nor society does affect him, Nor does anything like Faith and Hope make hi......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, life, people, psychological,
Form: Couplet

The Wage of Troublemaking

...I stepped on his nerves And like a dog, he got to me Making me feel his vicious mood Like a sweet bitten apple That tastes the anger of the tooth His furious mood ......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, abuse, anger, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse

End of January But Really Doesn'T Feel Like a New Year

...a sickle moon hangs in an ice blue sky my breath hangs in steam clouds quiet save for the faint clamour of the freedom truckers convoy on the not too distant highway this too shall pass but I'm ......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, january,
Form: Free verse

While Vehicle Underwent Routine Oil Change Today

...While vehicle underwent routine oil change today... At Norm's Save Station 551 Gravel Pike, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, yours truly suddenly realized fifty eight years earlier (a preschooler l......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, absence, america, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Ode To the Governor

...Ode to the Governor by Warren Curle I long for a woman I can't have, She is a woman who dances in my dreams, She is a woman I always think of, She is a woman I want to She is a woman I......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, death, dream, endurance, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Immunity To a Death Sentence

...Now the public library in our town contains the knowledge for mankind, and there’s not much happening ‘round the world, that I cannot find. I can think of any subject that I like and tell Jenny wh......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, humor,
Form: Rhyme

The Big Sleep

...I'm in a tight spot this guns for hire sure it spits fire but only six shots I'm in nightmare alley down a side street I see a red light no black angel's in sight there's no place to pray......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, america,
Form: Rhyme

Charles I

...In Merry Old England’s fine capital, where Marx would compose his work “Capital”, King Charlie the First faced up to the worst — a punishment gruesomely capital.......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, history, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Freedom From Condemnation

...She struggled frantically as she was yanked from the bed Hauled into the street straight to the temple, no match for her rabble size With bare foot struggling to find their footings Hammered fear,......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, angel, character, faith, fate,
Form: Narrative

Pilate Hands

... When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just......Read the rest...

Categories: capital punishment, christian, religious, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Capital Punishment Poems - Poems about Capital Punishment

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