Sister Murder Poems

"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed...

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Her derringer was at the ready
Ripper’s favorite kind of night
Marlys wanted to kill him herself
After what he did to her sister
Her Victorian dress was the...

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The Sonnet of Jane Doe

Jane Doe, number one four two. 
What is your name, what did you do? 
Were you a sister a banker or...

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Don't Let Go

Life gets hard, 
and seems...
overwhelming at times. 
Don't let go. 

Life gets rough, 
not just at the edges, 
but all over. 
Don't let...

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Charlotte was never really enamoured with her mother. 

 So, when the news that she had been bludgeoned 17 times with a baseball bat didn't...

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"Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one."

Whoever wrote this jump-rope song
About Lizzie...

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It was a mystery
The death of her twin sister
Helen became jittery
On the manner death had kissed her.

These few words sister could only say
“It was the...

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When I was young,                     ...

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Mother asked her big brother to pass the sugar;

big brother ruined it by splashing on liquor;

father rued spilt liquor by throwing his jigger

that hit sister...

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My sister, why must I die?
       Sister, my sister, why did you kill me,
     ...

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My sister Annick fixed me, locked me in, with cold, blue eyes as she sat down slowly next to me at the table. “I’m a...

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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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On the canvas of a cold, grey, winter sky,
In large black letters above the Iron Gate,
Read the message: "Arbeit Macht Frei".
A shrewdly sinister, propagandist lie,
Designed...

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Each morning I took the train to work,  
each evening I took the train back home. 
Each way we went through a long dark...

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Murder of the Bethlehem Children
Matthew 2:16-18

When you consider the wealth of love, 
Language, fashion and script of cree,
We have in today’s society - stealth dove,
Then...

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