Long Manslaughter Poems

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And Libya Saw Our Weaknesses

and my CNN opened on a breaking news on a dark street in Libya, about Nigerians chained to be sold as slaves.
the television slide and roved over,
their tears shattered and their blood spoke of pains...

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Categories: manslaughter, abuse, africa, anger, art,
Form: Blank verse


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Voice of a doctor for justice

Voice of a doctor 
For Justice  



A doctor,
I am and was 
my father’s dear daughter,
pearl of mother’s eyes
my brother’s very heart,
not meant for 
such severe torture
or heinous manslaughter,
I lie wasted;

Of years of those buiguels...

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Categories: manslaughter, angst, destiny, emotions, hope, judgement,
Form: Free verse

Castle of Stupidity

2 puberty's
physical
mental
several years before your midlife crisis
about the time you will realise
criminals
dealing drugs and death
would make more money stealing art supplies
the psychology of swears
they wear on their sleeves
eventually demand a life lesson to be learned

the...

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Categories: manslaughter, happiness, historyme, me, drug,
Form: Free verse

Guilty

Today, I stand at candor’s peak
And yet, they all still look down on me
A prosecution of the persecuted, shall I witness
As Damocles’s sword hangs over my head
Today, I looked at the man who decides my...

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Categories: manslaughter, 12th grade,
Form: Narrative

Moderate Debauchery, Part Ii

...When we heard of his loss we took it hard,
at first it was very hard to believe,
and it made me double my efforts to
moderate my own debauchery.

But within a year it all began again,
this time...

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Categories: manslaughter, addiction, celebrity, endurance, music, sad, truth, wisdom,
Form: Narrative


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Salvation

Kneeling in the median, crying, crying, what have I done?
Oh the pain, the pain wishing the past was undone.
I have no hope for my wretched life, now that I am alone.
The horror of a dying...

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Categories: manslaughter, bereavement, encouraging, forgiveness, heartbroken, inspiration, jesus, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Jungle Boys

I don't know why a story should start with a boy hanging himself cause he was giving freedom to see life & have a kiss with his lips! 
Then, the pages moved on and on...

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Categories: manslaughter, africa, anger, art, childhood,
Form: Blank verse
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Fragmented Responsibilities

What would it take
to understand
a right to life
includes a right to choose well-being
or failure
for one's internal identities,
organs,
organisms?
AND
A right to choose
self-embodied empowerment,
health,
is a right to life redemptive choice
over deadening felt loss
of continuous healthy lifetime,
now present
and on...

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Categories: manslaughter, abortion, anti bullying, discrimination, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Forsaken In Prison

I m p r i s o n e d.
   C o n f i n e d.
      D e t a i n e d.
  ...

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Categories: manslaughter, anxiety, emotions, life, loneliness, prison,
Form: Free verse

Guilty, Guilty, Guilty

As the door to my prison cell slammed shut.
   It was then I realized just how deeply my life had sunk into this rut.
And why, what was the reason that put me here?
...

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Categories: manslaughter, death, high school, hope, imagination, life, me,
Form: Narrative
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Dear Dad

Dear DaD,
Please do not think of me and weep. 
I did not die on that dim lit street.
I'm the sun that shines on you in a warm loving way. 
I'm the son you'll reunite with...

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Categories: manslaughter, death, forgiveness, loss, sad, sonson, me, me,
Form: Rhyme

THOSE DAYS

Truly those days were fun,
Little children playing each,
With a fine decorated toy gun,
Life was serious yet catchy;
And we were easily convinced
‘ Sit back, I will buy you Akara’,
Was enough to pacify and evinced.

I can still...

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Categories: manslaughter, character, depression, identity, integrity, satire, society, surreal,
Form: Blank verse

The Man

A man acquainted with sorrows and grief
be it then was bruised for our relief
the ones  ruling over them kept them in pain
but struck was he so we might Life regain
 
All like sheep have...

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Categories: manslaughter, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, life, love, religion,
Form: Rhyme
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The Shootist

In "The Shootist", J.B. Books is not feeling up to snuff.
He has cancer. What are the concerns
of a man dying.

To die
commensurate with the way he lived his life.
Books dies in a gunfight.
McIntosh dies in the...

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Categories: manslaughter, cancer, city, education, heart, life, murder, wife,
Form: Verse

Car Crash

A dark room with a small wooden desk, no lamp
A thick pad of paper and a typewriter, never used
Like a museum exhibit, though they aren’t allowed to gather dust
And dead flies and moths, a pack...

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Categories: manslaughter, car, world, books, dark, books, car, dark,
Form: Free verse
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The Legend of Alfred Packer 'Cannibal Extraordinarie'

In the winter of 1873, Alfred Packer was hired to guide a prospectin' trek.
In the San Juans of Colorady they'd heard of gold that they wanted to check.
Alfred claimed that in Colorady minin' camps he'd...

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Categories: manslaughter, funnyold, old,
Form: Rhyme
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Dead End Street

Written: November 08, 2023, For John Lawless Contest

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Quote by Zig Ziglar
                ________________________________________

Along...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: manslaughter, analogy, angst, bereavement, dream,
Form: Free verse

And Benue Tears Cried

Let's create two cities: death and tears,
We'll name our tears shitholes because we've forgotten why we were called so by he whom power rests on his shoulders.
These memories of ours we titled death are fragments...

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Categories: manslaughter, abuse, africa, anti bullying, anxiety, art, child
Form: Blank verse

shipping accident

The shipping accident

It was late evening when the captain of a Russian owner cargo came down from the bridge where he and the first mate had mapped the route from Humberside to Amsterdam. North Sea...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: manslaughter, age, allusion, anger, angst,
Form: ABC

Pleas From a Child

Theme:  TAKE MY HAND
Title:   Pleas from a child

Take my hand and lead me away from this war torn land
To a place where I can be free and build castles in the sand

Take...

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Categories: manslaughter, 10th grade, children, chocolate, conflict, education, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
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A stab in the dark

Niel Charles was a regular thief, I hope ' not a killer?
Well he came to grief; Bury St Edmunds. Market town
June 2021 himself he found. Tryiing some doors at
 private houses around, its what he...

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Categories: manslaughter, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Manslaughter First Degree

I stand and watch inside this prison gate,
Wondering how I got here, was this to be my fate?
I only did what any man would do,
While trying to protect his family from people like you.

All through...

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Categories: manslaughter, imagination,
Form: Verse
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Either Can Win

The marksmen took their position a century away from the target

The silhouette shape stood defenceless at the far end of the range

A clear sign of an alarmingly unequal contest in difficult times


Fred was unhappy with...

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Categories: manslaughter, character,
Form: Free verse

Inside the Bottle

It's a burning sensation
Like a constant itch that you try to scratch
then you remember how the heart you held exploded in your hand
tearing through flesh, bone, and soul
as the time passes by every memory seems...

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© Jacob Frey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: manslaughter, addiction, dark, grief,
Form: Free verse

Illusionary Art

My perception of the world is illusory art
The darkness is absolute
Women suffering violent abuse
From the one who said, “I do.”
Men and women  pushing dope
To innocent souls searching for hope 
Carjacking, kidnapping, and kids without...

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Categories: manslaughter, 12th grade, allusion, betrayal, confusion, fear, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
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