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Death Wish Poems - Poems about Death Wish

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Premium Member Compassion Fatigue
...Compassion Fatigue Resentment looks a lot like Narcan in a sharp and feels like it’s forcing out my will. I grab them both; Naloxone and the tarp, the outcome undetermined by my skill. Same gu......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, addiction, faith,
Form: Sonnet



Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke within noggin of average baby boomer bloke catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke positive growth experiences through......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Dead
...Dead Swear to God you want me dead. You run your middle finger up and down my spine. Too far gone to smile so I cry and apologize. The clouds are dark but we’re moving on. I’m not waiting on the......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anti-Treasure Map
...I’m scared of what I could manifest if I tried These after thoughts are traits, too defiant to ignore Am I reading the room, Or am I gaging to see who's worth pretending for? We're excruciatin......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, abuse, corruption, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Dismembered
...The whole world stopped turning, and the air had run stale. No, I cannot lie, you've before heard this tale. A desperate endeavor, a pathetic attempt. I, again, offer love, but am met......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, abuse, allegory, betrayal, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Power Circles Only Power Survives
...I guess the means to be mean turn a being cold as ice the unseeing witnesses see the unseen or be sacrificed as wealth brings you power only over those who are poorer in life it stands and it t......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, conflict, corruption, power,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Charles Bronson
...Charles Bronson, star of "Death Wish," Served punks icy-cold revenge dish. On body counts, he raised the ante. America's screen one-man vigilante......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, celebrity, people, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
...Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled... with kidnapping little boy ordered to suffer life sentence without parole. The deadly scourge of one obsessive/compulsive di......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ever Since I Experienced Being Significantly Monetarily Sidelined
...Ever since I experienced being significantly monetarily sidelined... (how about that topic for a change of pace?) Yes back to getting walloped, decked and clubbed courtesy cold hearted brute, w......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, absence, abuse, angel, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting To Be Headless
...In ancient cities and times, kings, rulers and their often-faceless consorts, were exalted in marble statuary, yet so much of those effigies now remain headless. Those bygone exalted figures ......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death Wish
...There was an old battle scarred bear, one day the old bear slowly dragged himself out of the woods to die. Two young hunting dogs saw him and they attacked him. All the old bear wanted was to d......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, destiny, inspirational, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadows Dancing In a Moonless Night
...Is our love a dance macabre? A dilly dallying with death? Or a mystic encounter of unabated love? Will it last? Will it end? So many questions left unanswered, So many uncertainties attest......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, dance, dark,
Form: Free verse
Death, Ye Make Life Immortal, and Man Wise
...Man’s survived quakes of an angry Ma Earth, Giant tsunamis and floods every age, Red hot eruptions from under her girth, And tilts of Poles that cause ice age in rage, Every doom's day prophe......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, death, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider
... Let me tell you a story ... Johnny Blaze, a stunt motorcyclist, who, to save the life of his sick father, a stunt rider also, gives his soul to the devil. But, the devil lies because tho......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, fantasy,
Form: Prose
From the Gut
...I had my father's face his mouth and eyes his thin skinned heart. Though those features have melted and are smeared by old age. I sometimes wonder if he ever had my genetically maimed gut. He ......Read the rest...
Categories: death wish, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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