Long Capital punishment Poems
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Seven Kingdoms
I
The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and we’re now, in these last days, living on the cusp
But...
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Categories:
capital punishment, judgement, religious, spiritual, truth, , western,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Forever Tracey-She Never Stopped Loving MeI was born before her-
but she existed
long before my life's debut.
Ancient Spirit.......
Old Soul!....Really Old Soul!
The "Great I AM"
knows her as "Tracey, You AM!"
As a young girl she was giving advice
to adults.......
they would listen and...
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Categories:
capital punishment, daughter, father daughter, god, growing up, love,
Form:
Free verse
While Vehicle Underwent Routine Oil Change TodayWhile vehicle underwent routine oil change today...
At Norm's Save Station
551 Gravel Pike, Collegeville, Pennsylvania,
yours truly suddenly realized
fifty eight years earlier
(a preschooler living at Lantern Lane)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated
November 22, 1963,
12:30 post meridiem
Central Standard Time
as he...
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Categories:
capital punishment, absence, america, anger, bereavement, dark, farewell, november,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom From CondemnationShe struggled frantically as she was yanked from the bed
Hauled into the street straight to the temple, no match for her rabble size
With bare foot struggling to find their footings
Hammered fear, cold deafeningly in her...
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Categories:
capital punishment, angel, character, faith, fate, happy, heart, hope,
Form:
Narrative
The Illusion of Free WillWhat of "Free-Will," of which the prophets foretold?
A cruel little lie, bore of simple human design,
are our minds even capable, of the power to choose?
Or, are we blind sheep, being herded by the flock,
wrangled all...
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Categories:
capital punishment, allegory, allusion, conflict, life, religion, society, symbolism,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Immunity To a Death SentenceNow the public library in our town contains the knowledge for mankind,
and there’s not much happening ‘round the world, that I cannot find.
I can think of any subject that I like and tell Jenny...
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Categories:
capital punishment, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Abolishing the Death Penalty: A Case for HumanityThe death penalty, a practice rooted in antiquity, continues to evoke controversy and ethical dilemmas in modern society. Despite its purported role in deterring crime and administering justice, the death penalty stands on shaky moral...
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Categories:
capital punishment, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Humanity Uppn the FallingHumanity Upon the Falling
Catastrophic predictions for humanities future
Another universal wound that needs an international suture
A forced appropriation into sacred laws and culture
A non linear approach to living by an exhibitionist social vulture
Wondering through...
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Categories:
capital punishment, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Humanity Uppn the FallingHumanity Upon the Falling
Catastrophic predictions for humanities future
Another universal wound that needs an international suture
A forced appropriation into sacred laws and culture
A non linear approach to living by an exhibitionist social vulture
Wondering through...
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Categories:
capital punishment, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Prince of This World
Prince of this world,
you've meddled in the affairs of mankind
since the beginning
From the time of the Egyptian pharaohs,
whose gigantic pyramidal tombs
had been built primarily by slave labor
A living testament to man's ingenuity and cruelty
Then you...
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Categories:
capital punishment, spiritual, truth, war,
Form:
Epic
Unmasked
Inside a boisterous tavern,
a-light with drunken gaiety
of spilled ribald laughter,
he quietly sits alone ...
gently cradling his mead darkly
Brooding thoughts of past paid coverings
buzzes inside his head
Talking flies having the faces of the dead
“Have mercy, please”
This...
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Categories:
capital punishment, dark, death, judgement, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Death Sentence Innocence
Roman capital punishment,
crucifixion morphed into
another raised gravity depravity
Guillotine justice dropping down —
off with the heads of the enemy!
Sleepy Hollow gangsters Herod-ing into town
Time pendulum swinging ...
death sentence methods changing again
Face the firing...
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Categories:
capital punishment, dark, death, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
I'M SorryTo the city of gold
It brings me great pleasure
To inform you that your application to grab hold
Of my attention has been successful.
Your name is self explanatory
Your status is...
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Categories:
capital punishment, 12th grade, anger, beautiful, betrayal, black love,
Form:
Blank verse
Heaven Wept
The darkest clouds ever
... overshadowing sight never before seen
Ominous high noon weather
shuddered the souls witnessing
the
death
of
the King of kings
It was...
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Categories:
capital punishment, history, jesus, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Capital Punishment Mama Daddy Spank MeCapital punishment
What year is it
I'm being spank with a switch
I am guilty
Mama whooping me
In 1960's
With a switch
a belt
some schools then a 2 by 4 paddle
For what I've done wrong
Lying the stealing
Who am I to call...
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Categories:
capital punishment, anxiety, child abuse, childhood, engagement, love hurts,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Insurgents Hard HeelsUnder Insurgents Hard Heels
Have you been under insurgents hard heels before?
While being in pain and suffering forevermore
Before you knew it, family member was found dead
And over him or her many prayers must be said.
While we...
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Categories:
capital punishment, allegory, anxiety, sad,
Form:
Couplet
CHANGING SOCIETY
CHANGING SOCIETY
If I could only stop abuse of child !
...
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Categories:
capital punishment, child abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
Pilate Hands
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing,
but that rather a tumult was made, he took water,
and washed his hands before the multitude, saying,
I am innocent of the blood of this just...
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Categories:
capital punishment, christian, religious, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
This Little Pole BoyThere used to a small boy,
without a mom or dad.
He thought he is going to die,
but wasn't that bad.
When asked about his life,
he wouldn't say a thing.
Just like a bird eager to fly, but without...
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Categories:
capital punishment, abuse, anti bullying, bullying, death, fear, history,
Form:
Rhyme
I Love and Would Die For My CountryI love and would choose to die in a micro second for my country,
but never ever in a war for which I just can't come to believe.
The whole thing would feel so capital punishment sinful...
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Categories:
capital punishment, war, love, war,
Form:
Rhyme
AbsurdityLo, Meursault, the hero, of the novel, 'the outsider',
Is spun by absurdity, like the web of a spider.
Neither religion nor society does affect him,
Nor does anything like Faith and Hope make him sing a hymn.
Takes...
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Categories:
capital punishment, life, people, psychological,
Form:
Couplet
Father Christ Jesus Cannot Be TrappedIn the passage before John 8:1-11
Father Christ Jesus frustrated the Jewish leaders attempts to entrap Him
But they turned with another test:
A woman caught in the act of adultery
They pretended in asking Father Christ...
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Categories:
capital punishment, christian, devotion, faith, god, gospel, religious, spiritual,
Form:
Light Verse
Capital Punishment School 1951 AustraliaOh I went to school in fifty one
Like every six year old should
I did’t know what was in store
A flogging for my good?
Bushy got a sandwich from another kid at school
He handed me another, nice...
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Categories:
capital punishment, adventureme, me, drug,
Form:
Ballad
The Midwest Boy KillerJudged an outstanding member of your community,
Only shows how erroneous some people can be!
How were you getting away with all that for so long?
Neighbors not suspecting you doing those things so wrong?
What horror transpired when...
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Categories:
capital punishment, history
Form:
Acrostic
The Big SleepI'm in a tight spot
this guns for hire
sure it spits fire
but only six shots
I'm in nightmare alley
down a side street
I see a red light
no black angel's in sight
there's no place to pray
no sacred way
just a...
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Categories:
capital punishment, america,
Form:
Rhyme