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Death Penalty Poems - Poems about Death Penalty

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Premium Member Black and White
...In the visiting room evening's ebony is shellacking everything. He sits across from me at the sable-shaded table, in shades, pours black coffee pungent as the Gauloises he smokes, his sun-starved ......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, life, murder, prison,
Form: Free verse



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: death penalty, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member death penalty
...shedders shards hover if there is not a purpose~ life has no meaning limb amputation your life left in a child's hand~ a burden you are soul shattered remains, where did eternal love go~ ......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, abortion, love hurts,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Corrupt Judges Are Alive, Breathing and Mooching
...There are words that I want to say to the corrupt judges But I am too civilized and decent to put them on paper Most judges in this mess have their brain on crutches They collude with double-deali......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
And Murdered in Her Bed
...(Oscar Wilde wrote that long poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" in 1897, quoted here. In it, a man met his death; for some decades the UK has not had the death penalty.) ......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, anxiety, death, emotions, fate,
Form: Free verse



Justice
...Justice,  I remember fallacious accusations of some Pharisees and scribes who were pushed by their leaders so that they could bump of  Christ Jesus. Some of them could say loudly " He was sayi......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, courage, encouraging, jesus, jobs,
Form: Free verse
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
...Recluse by dint of circumstance Proud anonymous troglodytes forerunners of mine confronted threats less horrific than forty fifth commander in chief of United States of America. He/him (ma......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cat Woman
...They never solved the murder. Though the crazy woman at number nine said it was the husband. This was ruled out in the early stages of the investigation. At some point, they did talk to the ......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, cat, death, murder,
Form: Free verse
The Unbegin Cycle Path
...is it weird that every psychopath had no feelings about the death penalty or life sentences we should find away to induce empathy then execute them or inprism them sorry i liked the sound of i......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance First Cell
...He/him (ratty, scrawny, and tetchy ugly villain) scurried into dark recesses of hermitage averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself into the duplicitous schemes capitalized, glorified, popular......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, age, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Spaceship Is Sinking
...The Titanic played its music Right up till the end The band played on in the predawn hours ......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, earth, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Execution of Paul Carter
...My name is Paul Carter and I want to tell you my tragic story About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of glory I was born in the state of Maine in the coastal town of Kittery It ......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, america, dark, death, drink,
Form: Narrative
Texas Abortion Law
...Words fail me When I think About the abortion law In Texas That effectively bans abortion And empowers vigilantes To enforce their new Taliban like decree And I think of new restrictions......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, judgement, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Kevin Barry
...Irelands uprising in ninteen sixteen was crushed by the state The ringleaders were arrested and death would be their fate Charged with the crime of treason against the British Crown Fifteen me......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, death, england, ireland, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Of Mountaintop Revelations
...the swinging swings of the ups and downs of the unbalanced scales of justice now hang stilled and suspended in bigoted air anchored by the selfish weight of the 5th amendment privilege that re......Read the rest...
Categories: death penalty, allegory, america, analogy, black
Form: Free verse

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