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Detectives Poems - Poems about Detectives

Detectives Poems - Examples of all types of poems about detectives to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for detectives.
Premium Member valiant detectives
...a throwback from the forties he stands under a streetlight waiting for the ripper ripper has spotted him is not about to lurk tonight both wise, one horrible a killer......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, irony,
Form: Free verse



Interview Overheard
...I hear them talking as I open my eyes, a hazy something lingers on my lips like lava, threatening to erupt. I hear question then answer, then questions plural follow up: detectives discussing ......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, analogy, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Veiled
..."Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one, she washed herself from a watered pail, she claimed their lies an......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, allusion, analogy, evil, father
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Scary Tale Of New York
...It’s Christmas Eve, Babe In the car pound It shouldn’t be this way Should not have been found But I’m the lucky one I am the thirteenth one And when I got a scare I hi-tailed out of there ......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, america, horror,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Impossible Task of Jury
...The jury’s duty is impossible. They have to decide who is lying. The defendant says he is innocent. Police say he is guilty. Defense lawyer says he was falsely accused. Points out his ex-wife ......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, irony,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Racists
...Racists today are those who label others racists. It’s no different than labeling someone a witch long ago in the hope of directing the hysteria of the crowd their way. People who are insecu......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, racism, society,
Form: Narrative
Fantasy of Childhood
...The Fantasy of Childhood There was a tiny house near the main house built I think to house the elderly, but ended up being a place for old furniture, bits, and bobs. There was a loft where we kid......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, anti bullying, beautiful, best
Form: Blank verse
The Intricate Mysteries of Being
...The Intricate Mysteries of Being An albatross flying across the Antarctic A telescope monitoring the intergalactic A horoscope sharing interplanetary plastic Let’s elope while we still think......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Detective Cats Frighten Me
...these unconventional cats who are dicks forties detectives to you out of comic strips make others nervous anyway me go by their last names, like Marlo or Spade interrogate usual suspects under......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Perpetual Quandries of Dischord
...Perpetual Quandries of Dischord Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder The incriminating evidence on an o......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, international,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crime
...horrible feelings acts of violence despicable ways reigning criminals spreading their terror huge lack of trust violations family’s horror makes great tv forensics murderers detectives......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Books
...I have pages filled with Mystery And ink on me filled with the worlds story Read me and you can be a hero or heroine Read me and live in America with your feet in your home Fiction or nonf......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, books,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mystery of Each Murder Solved
...A Parlor Game "No whodunnit has one clue as to who really done it." -- Reality clued in * * * Who yet loves not a lively murder mystery most rare, each story fu......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley
... Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley passed away, so he sent me. He wrote of gumshoe detectives, and eschewed dumb invectives. ......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, appreciation,
Form: Clerihew
The Old Bill
...Bill Shakespeare is wanted for hate speech, His study’s surrounded with tape. The local police were slow to react, He may already have made his escape. There’s a chance that he’s gone into hiding......Read the rest...
Categories: detectives, absence, angst, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme

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