Rose Murder Poems

Plentiful and preposterous piles
Pennies and notes across miles.
One mindset turned so hostile
The mansion deserted for a while.

A drop of "spice" on his tongue
Misunderstood and spread...

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* Content Warning: this poem touches on physical/emotional abuse*

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        “dabble,...

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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,...

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Down through the night, it's infamous knight
Rides through the battlefield of a war long lost.
Settles upon the spot of it's demise.
The petals glow in a...

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..... 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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A drop of blood trickled from a vein
Cut up for being vane 
Gazing at the reflection in the pane
Ignoring the emerging pain 

Shoes lined up...

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Red blooms 
Mourning...

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Ben Matlock-He Was The Best


				Ben Matlock
				Attorney at Law
				Atlanta, Georgia,
				That’s where he was, y’all,
				He was one of a kind,
				Answers he would find,
				A hit series on CBS,
				His...

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strobe into the secret night
the scene of our sacred crime
not just any old crime

I confess to you but 
I cry most insidious in design 
a...

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Thunderheads tumble 
in from the north
the sky is 
Dull lead dark 
at its core a storm 
waiting to be born
Thunder clouds like
that of different deities...

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He plays throughout the house at night 
a braille touch for his lack of sight
and dreams of all the crippled things 
with broken legs and...

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I 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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On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians...

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Rose petals fell before us 
Hands slid into each

Evening’s intermittent rays 
Twinkled out a desperate reach.

We took those steps together
Blessed by day and holy night

With...

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 TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan

(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands...

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