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The Hunt, at Daybreak
Categories:
animal, cry, men, murder,
Form: Footle
Black and WhiteIn the visiting room evening's ebony is shellacking everything.
He sits across from me at the sable-shaded table, in shades,
pours black coffee pungent as the Gauloises he smokes,
his sun-starved skin bone-white but brooding black light,
an abandoned...
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Categories:
life, murder, prison,
Form: Free verse
Pest Control
Categories:
cat, giggle, murder,
Form: Monorhyme
The next Whiskey Bar
War to go
One scream away
From murder
Art done right
Never to fight
Conscience of convenience
Sand blind cold boots pant rash hair clay mud pies
Resident sadists social decay
Where there are no truths and no lies
Foot soldiers claim
Their genocide...
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Categories:
11th grade, murder, war,
Form: Free verse
The shower sceneDelicate fingers gripped the slender neck firmly-
after soft, full lips caressed cold, wet flesh desperately-
whilst deep breaths were taken forcefully;
yet suffocated moans and screams pierced discordantly
heavy silence.
The now despised and trembling cold embrace
lost its...
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Categories:
murder, abuse, angst, bridal shower,
Form: Free verse
It Just Blows my Mind
Of all the insidious signs
'Abortion is Health Care'
just blows my mind
for Abortion is 'Women's Self-Care' ~
the infant's...
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Categories:
abortion, conflict, health, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Paradise Lost
I have been humbled, they had thought.
Exile would be painful, they had wroth.
The forest would swallow me, they had spoke.
To sunshine and sparrows, they had woke.
Though at night, no one knew, that hemlock
And nightbane had...
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Categories:
anger, dark, evil, murder,
Form: Rhyme
The Internal Affair with a Serial killerShe entered the parking lot of my townhome
devastated I was after several home invasion
my stalker an accomplice after the fact of arson
murderer of eight Ciro Gargano the sheer reason
the FBI approached me...
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Categories:
adventure, literature, memory, murder,
Form: Blank verse
Men of the SeaI’ll speak of me past, of stories once told.
Of men that rode waves out in the cold.
Tales of the strong, the courageous, the bold.
Most of them died young, a few were quite old.
The things that...
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Categories:
murder, adventure, courage, horror, life,
Form: Sonnet
SuffocationHe got buried six feet under
No eyes to see the thunder
He has no heart to feel sorry
He has no soul to feel any worry
He simply is and is all there will be
He would want a...
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Categories:
murder, anxiety, dark, death, deep,
Form: Rhyme
FOX-MANS REIGN OF TERROR
The heavens opened wide that night,
Thunder pounded the skies with might,
Lightening, God’s pyrotechnics were in play,
A great delight for the fox to have his way.
Power knocked out, no doubt this was a dread,
The local rag’s...
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Categories:
murder,
Form: Free verse
Green has sway
More murders in East Chicago today.
None of it matters, the green dollar has sway.
Drugs are the main cause of urban decay.
It goes on and on without any change
You gotta, know somebody's getting paid.
Meanwhile, People are...
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Categories:
drug, murder,
Form: Monorhyme
They killed himSlow, as one stares at a clock.
Painful, as needles tearing ones throat.
Easy, as killing a wounded bull.
But, strong as they come
Only came ever so often.
It was a sight to hear
and a sound to...
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Categories:
betrayal, freedom, murder, poetry,
Form: Free verse
JosephineWhen I was a younger man, the ladies fancied me.
I’d beguile them with my smile and winsome flattery.
“Tell me do you love me true? Am I the only one?
Do you swear...
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Categories:
love hurts, murder, romantic
Form: Lyric
Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads
Veronica Sawyer, a rebel in plaid
She joined the Heathers, but they were so bad
They ruled the school with their cruel games and lies
But Veronica had enough of their fake smiles and hair ties
She met a...
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Categories:
murder, angst, betrayal, crazy, death,
Form: Rhyme
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