Short Poetic Justice Poems

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In Time

In Time

Reason has no rhyme.
Poetic justice, no point
But they will in time.

©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    1/ 5/ 2008
Form: Haiku


Poetic Justice

The Justice we find in rhyme
Escapes with passage of time.
But worry not, friend,
It will never end
As long as there exists crime!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Poetic Justice

We went to Tegia to capture slaves
And we took some fetters with us.
But in the end, we Spartans were enslaved,
And they fixed our fetters on us.
Form: Rhyme

Poetic Justice

~Poetic Justice~
From Swofft, lyeth there,
in a land I dare Doth,
Soft or Swift, Day to Day, I Bare,
Deepening, Baring, Once Ended, Betroth'd...  ...

Poetic Justice

I thought I'd have a scar,
a line of smooth, pink skin
to rub like a worry stone.
But now I see the scar is yours.
It's my hand print
burned into your skin.


Premium Member Poetic Justice

She reported everyone for everything
She called IRS, medical boards and more
On Tuesday she got a ring-a-ding-ding
A misinformed SWAT team broke down her door

Premium Member Poetic Justice

A pickpocket named Dodger
lived to become an old codger,
alas a walking stick and heaps of pain
his getaway speed sadly on the wane.

© Harry J Horsman  2010
Form: Clerihew

Poetic Justice

I am ashamed
Truly I am.
For poetry is art and not a sword
I take my leave
No face for you to slap
Spit on my verse
For my verse is my heart
The blood that flows is my own
A tout le monde
Apologies.

Winter

In winters cold I found you
Lost too long to warmer times
Silence and solitude thoughts reflect
In frosted panes you appear fractured
Lines running deep, pane to pain
Written in crystal clear poetic justice

Stephen

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POETIC JUSTICE

There was an old man from Fontaine
Who walked with aid of a cane
One night he was mugged
By a wannabe thug
In the graveyard, the thug was lain


11 April 2018

For the contest sponsored by Viv Wigley
Form: Limerick

Poetic Justice

Spider deftly climbs on by,
Quickly moves on toward the fly.
Ugly, arrogant arach,
In he steals for the attack.
Silently devours his prey,
Hungry still, he moves away.
Enter bored and grumpy cat:
Death to spider, whack and splat!
Form: Acrostic

Poetry Is My Therapy

Poetry is my therapy 
it makes me more aware of me 
ignored, confused and left lost in life 
all makes sense when I choose to write 

Words I spoke always ignored 
mockery I then endured 
never comfort or reassured 
poetic justice my reward
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

What the Silence Hid

She smiled in rooms that cracked her spine,
where beauty bruised and grace meant lie.
They called her calm, not knowing this–
each breath she took was clenched like fists.
The silence praised was not her peace. 
It was the cage. She found the keys.
Form: Rhyme

Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice, Tupac Shakur, let the man peacefully rest, bullets hitting his chest.
Poetic Justice, we need Justice for the people, Justice for the country, freedom from Corona lethal. Protesters scream Poetic Justice, Poetic Justice, Justice for the people!
Form: Rhyme

Poetic Justice

Of course I would never consider your harm a
Deliciously fitting comeuppance of karma;
I only confess that I might have enjoyed a
Judicious, wee smidgen of slight schadenfreude.

(Written 21 Dec 2018 for Caren Krutsinger's "Bunny Jump" rhyme contest.)
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Poetic Justice

I landed in Poet's Court
Caught me speeding in my Sonnet
They judged it a rhyme crime
According to the officer's pentometer
I was doing 50 in a 25 word zone
I'm pleading for comma relief
Hoping to be released to free verse
Under supervision of course
Fortunately there's no sentencing in poetry
Maybe they'll just revoke my poetic license
© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.

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Words hold so much mystery and power and bleed the heart out 

Healing powers of writing down my thoughts are what I try to do. 

My mind is lost and so is my soul 

Poetic justice 

In love I am 
Heart of a fool 
But to love 
so sweet the warmth 
Of exposing your true heart
Excitement of the slightest touch from skin on skin
To love

Poetic Justice

By Dr Jose Manimala PhD


Doctor, behold, embolden spirit cheer ye,
C M may sharpen yore bloody dagger,
To pierce your brave – heart,
Lo, the fallen mighty, dreams to dust,
Bawd Swapna swoon double - heart, 
Golden dreams took wings forever,
Na, crook ain’t  my king, no more,
Where chatte queens reign!
Derriere queen is no bloom.
But a sucking vortex!

Premium Member Les Petites

I.
Under the ice
   Life bleeds;
as it cuts its way
   through to the warmth above...
                                                       II.

Spring makes me
   breathe deeply;
It's the scent of 
   existence anew!
                                                       III.

I go
  "Amus-ing"
In search of
   Poetic Justice;
Did I just
   pass you by?

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In days of olde
Lords spoke French to their king,
In church,in Latin would sing-
Poets,changing this mould,
Their verses,in English did bring.

Note.Poetry & literature in the 1300's helped to coalesce English into a native,nationwide 
language by rejecting both the secular religious power of the 'colonial' French of the Court 
and 'imported' Latin of the state Chuch
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Poetic justice

I went to your retirement.
I needed to be there.
You had deliberately made my life miserable.
Still I thought I needed to attend.
I had mixed feelings inside.
Some would say 'unresolved issues'.
Saw for myself how you were despised.
I closed the loop on that chapter.
It was like watching karma in action:
What goes around comes around.



AP: Honorable Mention 2026

Premium Member To a Criminal

Busted! 

Smile.
You're caught 
on camera
yet again!
Why? 
Why in the world
would you rob
a convenience store
at gunpoint,
only to return 
to that same store
a few hours later
without a ski-mask 
this time
still wearing 
the exact same clothes
simply to buy 
a pack of cigarettes
with the money 
you stole?
C'mon!
Really? 
Are you for real? 
Poetic Justice.


Date written and posted: 03/03/2019

Heavy Conviction

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
but mostly fools, like angels, join the dead.
But every now and then, a sudden quirk of fate
reflects back to its source the origins of hate.

So is it fate or fortune that guides a ‘helping hand’
or just 'poetic justice’ that none can understand.
They say with some conviction, 'pen is mightier than sword',
but a fist is also mighty and can seldom be ignored!

Ivor G Davies
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member I Am Iron Man

It was once said, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth".
Revenge isn't really sweet, but it is a bit uncouth.
You were fooled by thinking you would win.
In your losing battle, you committed another sin.

It can't be called poetic justice that you feel.
Posturing and abject will never be the real deal.
It was just some silly words of a poet you wanted to ban.
Mr. Stark publicly states with boldness, "I am Iron Man".
Form: Rhyme

Outshined

Lord bless the nihility
of spirit and entity
'cause my mind is pallid
like a deaf actor
in a silent film
but I'm not craven
just frowned and mortal
antique in the name
of a poetic justice
hesitating no more
sleepwalking in time
one of the nervous eaters
I'm the oxygen moron
joining the armies
of heavenly damned
to luminize the libretto
at vanishing point
wounded and mesmeric
never mind the bollocks
whatever they say
I'll always complain

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