Short Death And Destruction Poems

We Apache take owls in a storm as a warning
This owl was exceptionally fierce looking
I cringed, instantly thinking of death and destruction
I could hear the wind’s anger...

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unbelieving eyes
glued to surreal images
death and destruction 
and an ashen aftermath
terrorism had hit home


For Carolyn Devonshire's
"Remembering 9/11 Poetry Contest"...

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War

War is a strange word.

War is a strange meaning.

War is a strange sort of word and has a strange sort of meaning.

War is a strange sort of word that delivers the meaning of….

death and destruction....

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Kindness in every word and deed ~
  
    From death and destruction, man thus freed



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  Inspired by Evelyn Judy Buehler's acrostic, 
  'Spreading Happiness,' posted April 11, 2023....

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it is a cold winter day
the heat pump is broken 
and the cold slowly spreads
through the frozen pipes
spreading death and destruction
as it permeates across the house


pensively 101 prompt  three word challenge pump cold pipes...

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She sits beneath the old gum tree
eyes of black, teeth so sharp, claws of steel
she tells them stories and they listen
stories of death and destruction
stories of grief and misery
and so we sit under the old gum tree
the animals, the demon and me...

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Death and destruction.
All men stand alone.
Money is moral.
Our hearts are cold and
Love is forgotten.

My mother's love
Father's blessing
A child's laughter.
A sense of peace.

Where is hope.
What I see?
Selfishness.

Death, and
Chaos.

Why....

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Why so much death and destruction? Why the pain in our human race? Why must we hear of
these disasters, that on our earth are taking place?

This is dedicated to all of those who live in Haiti and to the families of those who were
lost in the tragic earthquake over there!...

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War is the murder of innocence.
Innocence of the same coloured blood.
War is the evil that men do to justify their meanings of good.

War is death and destruction.
War is horror and pain.
War is humanity failing.

Humanity will fail again and again and again and again.....

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Why are there wars
Is there a reason for death and destruction
The reason escapes me now
Is it to prove superiority
Why are there different races and cultures
That were disgraced and died
Is that a deplorable enough reason
My mind of today at 86 is still questioning it
There MUST be a reason...

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The blackened ground stretches out ahead
The fire has long since passed with dread
There are no bush sounds around
Death and destruction has sown the ground

The firefighters with blackened faces
Return now from hell fire places
Awaiting now a rebirth in rain
Whilst the bush recovers from the summer’s pain.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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many more lies said
laid with women while in bed
more bull us has fed

was kind and thoughtful
a natural born nice guy
you would want to meet

Lincoln supported
by many he never knew
who would need much help

another rumor
Trump has been put to get us
many more sickos

death and destruction
buildings torn to pieces
losses and chaos...

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(With apologies to Robert Frost)

Four feet to the sky, he lay
in an attitude of surrender
confessing his sins
of hunger, of greed
of slavery to his quest
for surprise, for enchantment
around the next bend.

The Armadillo found
that life sometimes slings
death and destruction
and the road not taken
would have been the right one
had he known....

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Visions unendurable
Thoughts not erasable
Tracers of red
Running through my heard

Yellow smoke for the dust off
Brings tears
Death and destruction
Memories of loss

Haunting images
Ghosts haunting me
Blood on my hands
Unable to clean

Youth destroyed
By war
Hate and anger
Unknown to me

Until The War

Tribute To All Veterans on
Veterans Day...

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Why is it
that we suppose
we are the superior being?
When all we do
is cause death and destruction,
that's all that I am seeing!
We go to school,college,uni
and listen to teachers teach
but when will we stop all war
and practice what they preach?
If you listen to Edwin Starr
his message was simple and right.
As far as I can see,
it really does no good
when all we do is fight....

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the worst hurricane
a category seven
annihilating

destroying places
breaking apart homes, shelters
taking away life

lord please take pity
for the land is gone and life
heal us once again

this storm has done it
brought with death and destruction
the worst hurricane

Russell Sivey

Entrant into PD's "NATURE THE DESTROYER *HAIKU FORM ONLY*" contest

3/9/2012...

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Imagine if Putin gave thanks
rather than sending tanks

What if he helped Ukraine's people
rather than crushing their buildings and steeples

What if he took the high road
versus death and destruction for gold

Then we would have world peace
and all would be at ease


Thursday, April 21, 2022
Anything You Want - New Poems Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke...

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Grim shadows of strife unfold
death and destruction
they have conquered the enemy
children silenced, doctors mourned
murdered the charity workers
murdered the refugees in churches
masses weakened by hunger's grasp
in echoes of desolation
they won
they killed them all
evil no longer exists
if you're Alice in Wonderland's sway,
illusions blur 
the devils tongue  has had its way
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Bodies lay dead and dying
Wounds never healing
Thought’s captured for life

Fears never thought of before
Innocents disappeared
Noises trapped in the mind

Bullets flying hitting on target
Graves unmarked and missing
Traps with exploding power

Death and destruction for politics
Coming home to burning flags
Sleepless nights of terror

Now riots in the street
Is this what we fought for?...

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Houston we have a problem 
Orbiting 
Safe space
In a Bubble 
Viewed through Hubble
We see the trouble 
Not on the ground
But from the window of a station 
Circulating into critical mass 
Nature's come calling
Evolving 
forming 
Death and destruction 
And repercussions 
Butterfly Effects 
God help those left
Subside the waters 
Raise the heaven's 
Wash away our sin
Let the light back in...

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I stand at your grave.
I do not know your name.
I know not where you are from.
Where you fought,
nor where you died.

The horrors and pain you suffered,
were not in vain.
The death and destruction brought you pain.

I weep at your grave,
for the life you gave.
I weep for the Mother,
that gave you that life.

I kneel before your grave.
I bow my head in gratitude to you,
The Unknown Soldier.
Forever Remembered....

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If we don’t want to fight
Why do we make weapons so right
And we plot and scheme
About defeating an enemy as our dream

So we stagger from one war to the next one
With death and destruction never quite done
Each generation never learns of peace on earth
Just Lest we forget for what it’s worth

And the old lie is told again and again
It is good and proper to die for one’s country.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Mans universe 
beyond stupidity goes 
far beyond grasping 







my thought on something
as man slowly destroys the planet they tax people on pollution 
yet its the greedy rich who burn up the ozone destroying forests wildlife etc 
they tax the less well of thinking they are smarter 
we are all stupid we let the rich destroy the planet 
in their greed man made wars for their benefit feeding off death and destruction...

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Sounds coming from thy mouth
Bring death and destruction
It is not man that kills but the tongue
Who orders man to a war of death

Sharpe as a two edge sword once said 
How powerful a few words can be
We follow like sheep to be Slaughtered
Through words and the stroke of a pen

The tongue is a weapon we all have
Some use it with kindness others kill
Spit out your words wisely with love
Use them with kindness not death...

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Death and destruction surround me
It attacks my heart and my mind
I've thought of ways I can fix things
Take my life and some peace I may find

I'm praying to God, can you help me
I'll give you my heart and my hands
I still see death and destruction
But now I'm a part of Gods plans

I'd offer my life if you ask it
Take it and do as you will
You'vve given my heart the peace that i crave
I'm yours till my heart beats are still...

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