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Short Guillotine Poems

Short Guillotine Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Guillotine by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Guillotine by length and keyword.


Premium Member Madame Guillotine
Heads roll
  ~ Bells toll...

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Categories: guillotine, death, paris,
Form: Footle



Sharp and Short
knelt before the guillotine
anticipation of my decapitation...

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Categories: guillotine, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Compromising Soul
Easy road to take
Is compromise guillotine,
Unprincipled soul....

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Categories: guillotine, freedom, gospel, judgement, spiritual,
Form: Haiku
Guillotine of Clouds
Who you know was claimed
By the guillotine of clouds
When the neck touched dirt...

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Categories: guillotine, change, corruption, dark, depression, sad, sky,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Guillotine
heavy painting fell
no heads on the chopping block
plenty of goosebumps

11/29/2018...

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Categories: guillotine, fear,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
A crowd she upset
To guillotine was led
They cut off her head

5/30/15...

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Categories: guillotine, history,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Severance Pay - For Contest
Severance Pay

His job as Guillotine Tester was short lived.


10/12/2016

for Live or death one liner contest...

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Categories: guillotine, humor,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member L'Etat C'Est Moi
Louis' neck in the guillotine
CEOs glean much from this scene
Selfish as ever
These kings mean and clever
Make their steely getaways clean...

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Categories: guillotine, allegory, business, funny
Form: Limerick
Salty and Sweet Limerick
Is it sweet or salty or sour?
Brimming with happiness or always dour?
Prancing, living with gaiety
Or waiting for a guillotine 
Now standing forever to scour?...

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Categories: guillotine, chocolate, cry, death, grief, happiness, joy, sweet,
Form: Limerick
Guillotine
Robespierre, Danton and all of those 
crazy French revolution 'heroes' 
had thousands guillotined  
by La Machine that gleaned 
heads; then 'offed' their own midst their wild throes....

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© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guillotine, history,
Form: Limerick
Lady Guinevere Decided To Follow Her Passion
Lady Guinevere decided to follow her passion
By finding employment as a hired assassin.
  She practiced technique
  On her cousin Monique,
But found the guillotine to be out of fashion....

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Categories: guillotine, dark, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member I Fear Not
 I Fear Not the Hands of Tyranny
 Nor the Common Brute, Nor the Thieves Of Liberty
 I Fear Not Death, But the Passage Of Time
 So release the Guillotine, Freedom Is A Universal Right
...

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Categories: guillotine, courage,
Form: Quatrain
Death Calls
The gallows were offered,
guillotine chosen

Executioner a matter
of choice

The sinner repentant,
evil now lessened

Death calls
—in a welcoming voice

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Categories: guillotine, death,
Form: Rhyme
Death Calls
The gallows were offered,
  the guillotine chosen

The execution a matter
  of choice

The sinner repentant,
  the evil now lessened

Death calls,
 —in a welcoming voice

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Categories: guillotine, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am FEAR
those knots that wrench your gut belong to me
the terror in your eyes, yeah that's mine too
but soon my friend your death will set us free
when the guillotine severs you in two 
for heinous crimes against humanity 


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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: guillotine, fear,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Premium Member Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
                                                  Quite the coquette.
                                                Beautiful French queen,
                                                 She met the guillotine.



1/27/12...

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Categories: guillotine, history,
Form: Clerihew
Love's, Winter Soldiers
Gathering by her western gates: jovial....
Their babies while arriving; this sought after
Day and desperation beginning to show his face     
Biospiritual warfare namby-pamby's, pass waterloo ?
Jupiter's, rising swift the pendulum time's guillotine: delta....

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Categories: guillotine, baby, birthday, love, , western,
Form: I do not know?
Heads Will Roll
Heeding the call for the death of nobility
Each will teach another 
And soon rocks will fly like
Dying birds in the 
Sky

Win or lose the King
Is bound to
lose his
life

Round heads and towheads and bowed heads
On down
loving the kiss, the
lick of the guillotine...

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Categories: guillotine, history
Form: Acrostic
Rawr
The Sun; a guillotine.
With its giant convex blade of light
Slicing through my skull
Eyes first
At 186,282 miles per second.

My floaters explode
Like ejaculant;
Smashing and spattering
Outward
All over the white hole oversoul.

“Tag!” Says the Sun.

“You’re it!”...

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Categories: guillotine, appreciation, beautiful, nature, sun,
Form: Free verse
Stoopid
When you try to shove, what you yourself can't even prove, down a MF's throat. 

When you slap some sap in the guillotine, for doing something you once did, thirty times a month, merely months ago.

When you leave a bar, and penetrate a stranger, uncovered.

You're being...

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Categories: guillotine, abuse, america, angst, anti bullying, bullying, world,
Form: Free verse
Streets
Streets love desperation
Somewhere old awakenings
visit the future

This world is failing
Our time unsure…

For the guillotine
surrounds my consciousness
Wrapped in blood…in tears

My head fits firmly in the stocks
Just waiting for the world
to mock my severed life...

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Categories: guillotine, allegory, angst, death, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Facing the Guillotine
The prior king with no good reason

Guilty of commiting treason

His circumstance so seldom seen

Is facing now the guillotine

Things needed to prevent our fall

Are laws that should affect us all

The one so good at dodging curves

Will get the fate that he deserves...

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Categories: guillotine, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Queen
The Queen
Has caffeine,
A great cuisine,
And nothing in between.
Her name is Colleen,
With her middle name Jean.
She has a daily routine,
And eats a tangerine.
This isn't the best scene,
But there's a guillotine.
Off with their head and spleen.
Now Parliament can reconvene....

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Categories: guillotine, adventure, fantasy, funny
Form: Monorhyme
The Skeptic
Religion is a separator,
not a lifesaver. 

Man made it in his mind.

Take a lesson in history,
maybe you’ll see. 
I do not believe
that God is right for me.

Neither the Devil nor Jesus,
do I believe to exist.

Go spread the word of your deity
and end up at the guillotine…...

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Categories: guillotine, betrayal, bible, corruption, dark, gothic, perspective, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Sensitive Community
Naive Guillotine


I once knew a poet named Balveen
Whose heart was not a touchscreen   
Confused when she read some barbs
Until she was shot by shards 
She rued at their naive guillotine


Syllables per line-97779
February 29, 2016
Contest : Sensitive Community
 A PD Contest...

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Categories: guillotine, heart, poets, symbolism,
Form: Limerick

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