Beautifully Executed
E-xcellent
L-ines
I-n
Z-est
A-re
B-eautifully
E-xecuted
T-o
H-appily
E-xpress
G-ladness
A-t
N-atal
A-ffair
Topic: Birthday of Elizabeth Egana (December 29)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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Categories:
executed, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Executed When Polluted
Executed When Polluted
What we finally decided to do when polluted,
Was to make a decision and have it diluted;
Desperate deed,
And never feed;
Eventually all of the culprits were executed.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
executed, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Self-Executed Scars
I carry bittersweet memories of her-
I held such an ambivalent idea of who she truly was.
She was an angel by day yet arcane
darkness consumed her at night.
My tactile touches were measurable
and my instincts died when she fell off the cliff.
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Categories:
executed, death, missing you, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Said the Man Executed By Cops
Said man killed by cops
No humanity in the way they came
Men of law like criminals.
Monsters.
shoved me to the ground.
Squished breathless,
pinned hands,
collapsing ribs
I panted,
I could not speak,
nor ask for air.
I couldn't move.
My hands tried to move
like those dying in strangulation.
I CURSED the monsters.
That instant my now bulging eyes
saw the white cop yanked out
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Categories:
executed, abuse, anger, black african
Form: Didactic
Am I Going To Be Executed
“Am I going to be executed?”
the prisoner asked the balding
old priest, as he leant across the
warped wooden shelf; lifting the
tattered bible, like a ticking, weary,
bomb.
“Yes my son, you will die here away
from family, friends and familiar trends;
alone with eyes shot with blood and sand,
it will not be pretty but
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Categories:
executed, sad, , cute,
Form: Free verse
The Executed Donkey
This political forum is but an avenue for debate
Leaving man and woman, speaking then of hate
Trying so to stay within the realm of running calm
The press exploits the two by setting off their bombs
As words that started factual, have turned to bitter cold
Man and woman pass the buck, a story that’s quite old
When issues so
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Categories:
executed, history, philosophy, political, satire,
Form: Quatrain