Murder Poems - Examples of all types of murder poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Oh HenryGod 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 maidens
appear at will
Which one will prosper
how many fall
Into the moat
—of...
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Categories:
divorce, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Sandy Hook Tragedy: Dedicated to the 26 victimsWhen I was six, I was in a car wash,
I watched my father's car getting cleaned.
However, I looked at the news with curiosity,
Twenty pupils died in a harrowing tragedy.
December 14th, 2012, no one could imagine,
The...
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Categories:
murder, grief, horror, memory, mental
Form: Rhyme
NOBODY ASKED ME“ NOBODY ASKED ME “
NOBODY ASKED ME BUT I WAS THERE
I WONDER DID ANYBODY CARE
WITHOUT A VOICE I DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE
WOULD NEVER GO TO SCHOOL OR LEARN...
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Categories:
murder,
Form: Free verse
ODE TO A GNATGnats, fruitflies, midges, black flies
What do you call them?
I call them pests.
Unwelcome guests
I call them demons from hell.
They fly past my face.
They go for my eyes.
Lucifer in disguise
They like my white screen
They’re like a bad...
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Categories:
murder, 7th grade, evil, insect,
Form: Light Verse
Right HandI carry a machine gun draped over one shoulder, other hand shoved into my pocket
Nonchalant grim reaper with a list of names, fist balled up around bitter poetry, the names of future dead
Angel and devil...
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Categories:
murder, america, dark, death, military,
Form: Free verse
Vanilla Killer - trigger warningAnother shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie, please be there, and say you care.
I loved working alongside...
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Categories:
child abuse, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Driven to MadnessOfficials seek opportunities to steal,
While soldiers earn double for lives, they reveal.
Ribbons, crosses, gallons, and stars they don,
Drowning their souls with debauchery's song.
As thousands lay sick, wounded, and deceased,
Fields filled with...
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Categories:
conflict, corruption, murder, war,
Form: Rhyme
Times GalTimes Gal
Give it back she demanded
He took the small barrel
Off the table of her 22 pistol
Saturday Night Killer being cleaned
Or it wouldn't fire as dirty
This gal was bad ass
All the effing way
She cut the metal...
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Categories:
angel, conflict, murder, satire,
Form: Blank verse
The Day You Let The Lion OutIt was the trophy hunt that played you out
In deafening degrees,
This video-invention of yourself revealed –
A theatrical display that formed the day,
A message of power, the plug-and-play
Of your most infamous hour
There was no...
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Categories:
america, death, murder, violence,
Form: Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
death, murder,
Form: Personification
la fermeIt was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She lives in Paris, but she owns a Château and surrounding...
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Categories:
murder, 4th grade, easter, family,
Form: Free verse
PROMISESOUTSIDE EDEN
To the garden, add children twist - the boys
Outside Eden; were they ever great friends?
Cain’s sin parts ways; his jealousy destroys.
The blood of Eve’s son cries…to God ascends.
HEARTBREAKING KNOCK AT THE DOOR
A quiet day...
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Categories:
angst, bible, christian, murder,
Form: Sonnet
The Story of Her Life
It seems like the darkness,
Risking tears, - erasing the prayers
So sensitive, kissing away all the fears
Dancing through the leaves, enchantment
Like winds, collecting all the light
In gently flowing moon song, beads of hope
Glistening on the night,...
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Categories:
mental illness, murder,
Form: Free verse
And Murdered in her Bed(Oscar Wilde wrote that long poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" in 1897, quoted here. In it, a man met his death; for some decades the UK has not had the death penalty.)
...
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Categories:
murder, anxiety, death, emotions, fate,
Form: Free verse
IT WILL END IN TEARS
My friend, don’t struggle so
Not much longer to go
No more working for the all-mighty buck
No more lusting after the…
Ahhh your dirty mind
Will be the death of us all
How dare you think
Such a tragedy you...
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Categories:
murder, allusion, anger, angst, art,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Murder Poems
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