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Guillotine Poems - Poems about Guillotine

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Premium Member Speaking of Dreams
...speaking of dreams the thrill, the screams limbs are frozen, eyes open wide speaking of dreams… zombies in beds kids hiding under them the thrill, the screams… a clown suspended ov......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, dream,
Form: Verse



Her departing words
...As she awaited for her head to pass through the guillotine, She said to the young girl who was standing in front of her Who was shivering from fright as death approached her, "I've journeyed the fa......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, death, emotions, farewell, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winged Invaders
... Their ghastly buzzing’s in the air targeting vegetation everywhere They dive-bomb and guillotine anything and everything green Prodigious throngs of winged invaders escapin......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, dark, insect, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Fear Not
... I Fear Not the Hands of Tyranny Nor the Common Brute, Nor the Thieves Of Liberty I Fear Not Death, But the Passage Of Time So release the Guillotine, Freedom Is A Universal Right ......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, courage,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Fighting Temeraire
...The Fighting Temeraire I lead this Queen to a guillotine She follows me with dignity and grace all English oak and 98 guns. I am an unsuitable escort for my Lady, my low born coarseness, the eff......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Inner Sanctum
... Written: January 27, 2024 ________________________________________ "Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. Why do you stay in prison when the ......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, adventure, age, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Another Day
...I didn’t know if I was going to make it through the night, my feet were as cold as ice, my heart was where it was supposed to be, but I had this strange premonition that I would wake up in the middle......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, blessing, business, change, courage,
Form: Narrative
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 affec......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There's More That Falls Below the Iceberg
...Does my head in the guillotine promptly paint me guilty? My last meal, a full plate of your golden excuses But any attention means so much to me We’re going in circles, But feel free to say yo......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, absence, extended metaphor, friend,
Form: Free verse
Compromising Soul
...Easy road to take Is compromise guillotine, Unprincipled soul.......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, freedom, gospel, judgement, spiritual,
Form: Haiku
Oh Henry
...God save the king but not the queen Her neck awaits the guillotine Someone to blame each sacrifice The son he wanted whose birth on ice The throne half-vacant one seat to fill The royal m......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, divorce, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oceans - of Thought
...| Oceans - Of Thought | Harmonised hypothermia sets through the darkened depth of the chasm deep, Like a heavy-weighted wreck of my linguistic mind. As blithe planulae float amongst the ......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, change, emotions, lost, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
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 fe......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, death, murder,
Form: Personification
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
...Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor? Ah... methinks legal tender could be a boon to help me bolster mein kampf with necessary material equipage, which prospect to acquire......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, 8th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member July 14th
...They fought for Liberté, égalité et fraternité in a revolution against royal tyranny by a careless, selfish monarch. On July 14th, they stormed the Bastille in the first major act of violenc......Read the rest...
Categories: guillotine, history,
Form: Etheree

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