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Guillotine Poems - Poems about Guillotine

Premium Member Your hands are silent executioners, each finger a hungry guillotine
Your hands are silent executioners, each finger a hungry guillotine, Let them glide over me slowly, like penance flowing as a slow river, Let them cut every last fragment of restraint that still binds us, This is not seduction, but a butchery of desires hidden beneath the skin. I want your breath to be a burning pyre in the...

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Categories: guillotine, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guillotine
There it is displayed for all that are in the wrong, bowing their heads in shame because they know one day there time will come That there they will be lying with their head on display, eyes bulging out of their sockets trying to foresee a way A way to beat the system, a way to dull...

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Categories: guillotine, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member TALLEYRAND
Silk stocking filled with mud was Talleyrand. With the future of France held in his hand, He played kibitzer-informed cards with skill, Maneuvering a Congress to his will. There once was a Marquis named Talleyrand, Who loved ladies and a fine sarabande Smarts from ladies gained as a teen Helped him escape the guillotine, Surviving four regimes as he had planned. Vested in priestly...

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Categories: guillotine, baptism, future, love, smart,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Facing the Guillotine
The prior king with no good reason Guilty of commiting treason His circumstance so seldom seen Is facing now the guillotine Things needed to prevent our fall Are laws that should affect us all The one so good at dodging curves Will get the fate that he deserves...

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Categories: guillotine, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Guillotine
I heard screams from those marked for a guillotine death No compromises for their cries before taking a last breath Words of repentance for dastardly crimes were bemoaned Begging for mercy with fear and tears, curses were groaned My blade is always kept whetted for those who regretted and my cutthroat job is thought to be brutally inhumane "Oh, please!" I...

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Categories: guillotine, death, murder,
Form: Personification



Skeleton
Something we don’t wish to meet, Also, what we won’t want to greet. We might start feeling its past heat, When skeleton had heart with a beat… For all its seeming friendly grin Any returned smile Holy Sin; Drinkers of juice ask for gin The sight: one hell of a sharp pin At a corner found a skeleton You’d swear used had been guillotine;...

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Categories: guillotine, cry, death, fear, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If I Had a Guillotine
If I had a wooden guillotine with a sharp head blade Who would I practice on? Would it be my Aunt Tee Who embarrassed me in 1964 By making my open my size 43 Double D lacy bra in front of the relatives when I did not even wear a training bra yet? Would I use it on my arch...

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Categories: guillotine, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Madame Guillotine
Heads roll ~ Bells toll...

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Categories: guillotine, death, paris,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Louis and Marie
French King Louis XVI placed his love bet On teenage queen Marie Antoinette Sadly, it is said, though she deserted his bed For frivolous Marie, Louis lost his head. Of Louis’ sweet Marie, it is our take She was a desserter who truly loved cake For proposing cake for peasants who lacked bread Queen Marie left a guillotine minus her head...

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Categories: guillotine, death, food, love,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Guillotine
heavy painting fell no heads on the chopping block plenty of goosebumps 11/29/2018...

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Categories: guillotine, fear,
Form: Haiku
Prepare the Guillotine
So it's become aware Another ounce of revolution to dare A dream rather a statement once declared False, now a lie Hardly a surprise Feels like that is my lot in my life I so desperately want to belong I so desperately cling to this false hope of camaraderie That I blindly believe I can outgrow my silence That no matter how far I...

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Categories: guillotine, family, feelings, life, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Guillotine
Does it not shimmer to the shine, the steel blade Of dead reckonings ultimate design, cold is Its fine edged point, a slicing masterpiece, Of revolutionary engineering, behold deaths Chopping silver anvil, the guillotine! Polished by rags dipped crimson blood, Washed by virgin waters of the fallen innocent, From the martyr to the beggar thief, It mattered not, to this abomination of Humanities creation. It...

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Categories: guillotine, halloween, history, holiday, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Guillotine
The morning sun is rising turning darkened sky to grey In the yard people are gathering every one real proud and gay They yell to house in one big voice c'mon bring out the fun Then man in black looks out and says we wait until the sun With rising of the sun the man in black leads four...

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Categories: guillotine, death, history,
Form: Verse
The Shadow of the Guillotine
The Shadow Of The Guillotine What is a guillotine ? It is a device for cutting large quantities of paper, in commercial use these machines supply reams of packaged paper for use in offices around the world, they are used for many similar uses in many different forms in countries all around the world, but the guillotine had...

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Categories: guillotine, history, nostalgia, , cute,
Form: Prose
Guillotine of Clouds
Who you know was claimed By the guillotine of clouds When the neck touched dirt...

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Categories: guillotine, change, corruption, dark, depression,
Form: Haiku

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