Ballad Murder Poems
These Ballad Murder poems are examples of Murder poems about Ballad. These are the best examples of Murder Ballad poems written by international poets.
The Ballad of Sarah PikeThis is the tale of Sarah Pike
Who lived in a cottage at Hangman’s Dyke,
Twixt Preston and old Burnblack town
She walked the byways up and down.
Travellers...
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Categories:
death, lost, murder, music,
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...
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Categories:
murder, anxiety, death, emotions, fate,
Song of Death..... SONG OF DEATH ......
Tick tok, Tick tok,
In the past, goes the clock,
Where there lived a girl...
In a cottage, white like pearl...
She used to sing...
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Categories:
murder, death, evil, gothic, history,
Mother, Father and the Birthing of the AngelYou have led my course through fractured lanes.
Your groaning ballad my only light.
Kill blessings from stained lips safely float our steps.
Where would I be without...
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murder, angel, death, fear, horror,
Execution StyleSonny hid behind the melons
In a busy Asian marketplace,
Near the plantains and the mangos
Where the shadows could obscure his face.
He inhaled...
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Categories:
adventure, allegory, corruption, murder,
Murder Ballad: the River WitchI rose from my bed in the darkness
and escaped to the river in the dead of night.
Clad in only my thin fragile nightdress,
Much to my...
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Categories:
betrayal, murder, romance,
The Hanging TreeCome, my love and meet me
Come, my love and meet me
Along the fields by The Hanging Tree
Come, my love and watch the navvies building the...
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Categories:
allusion, murder, mystery,
The Ballad of Rayshard BrooksHe was a nice quiet gentle man
He had family friends wife and a daughter too
But Rayshard Brooks was also a black man
He was just waiting...
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Categories:
community, death, integrity, murder,
The Ballad of George FloydOh Lord, they laid George Floyd down
They put a knee to his neck
and pinned him to the ground
for nine minutes they held him on...
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Categories:
murder, america, death, fear, judgement,
24 Murder Me SestetsLet me die from its rage
I am no Lab rat which finds jolly from the syringe
I am also human,...
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Categories:
murder, anger,
Confession of a Killer's KillerI killed a killer this morning!
I gorged his eyes out with my naked hands
Counted his teeth one by one
Like pebbles on a plastic platter;
Belched...
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Categories:
murder, society,
Ivan Milat Is DeadIvan Milat is dead
There is nothing to be sad about or to dread
He killed seven backpackers in the Belanglo State Forest
Finally dying from the cancer...
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death, murder,
Death On a Lonely PlanetWhen we landed it seemed true
That we would survive the whole month through
Then slowly one by one we died
With each morning we wanted to just...
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death, murder,
Human SacrificeA baby is a gift from god
But when a father decides
To sacrifice a defenceless baby
By throwing it in the sea
What can you think except that
This...
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Categories:
death, murder,
The Trolley ManHe couldn’t find a place to stay
So living on the street was his only way
Until a Friday in Bourke Street Melbourne town
A Terrorist set fire...
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Categories:
murder,