Murder Poems | Examples of Murder Poetry

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 maidens appear at will Which one will prosper how many fall Into the moat —of...Read More

When 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...Read More

“ 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...Read More

Gnats, 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...Read More

I 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...Read More

Another 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...Read More

Officials 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...Read More

Times 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...Read More

It 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...Read More

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...Read More

It 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...Read More

OUTSIDE 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...Read More

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,...Read More

(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.) ...Read More

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...Read More