Short Shootings Poems

haiku 9: shootings

the birds were chirping---
butterflies played in the air;
then there was gunfire....

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In hard sciences
    'Why' is a great question

  To stop shootings and murders
    It's not the best suggestion...

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Camelot slain with JFK
  Blood-stained guilt from MLK
Hope left town when Bobby died
  ~ These shootings left us horrified...

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Shootings here, violence there
     Smash-and-grab everywhere

   So it seems, but look again
     It’s a mostly urban scene

   How much longer can it be 
     ~ To death our cities bleed...

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Volcanoes are really scary I admit
Nothing's more scary, perhaps an asteroid hit
Why am I promoting doomsday
World's a shiny orb each day
Aside from mass shootings, these lunatics commit...

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America is known as "the land of the free", am I right?
People free to own weapons of war crazies use in mass shootings
Women free to make decisions about their bodies. Oh wait...




Date written: 11/17/2022...

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Where's Jack Nicholson?
Where did he go?
Is he dead yet?
Does any one know?
Wars, and opiates,
mass shootings and debt,
and that potential nuclear threat.
Is this truly as good as it gets?
One might end up with Tourette's,
as good as it gets..



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Gun violence
Yet another - 
Madness!
When will it end?
Homicide rates are
Through the roof
And it
Continues
To rise
Mass shootings
Schools shot up - 
Now a new normal
Something needs to be done...
Now!
It's out of control!


Date written and posted: 05/08/2019...

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school shootings
anguished screams

  public outrage
    calls for action
      marches & rallies
        media blitzes
          politicians fulminate
        propose legislation
       congress debates  
     bills stall & die
  anger subsides

nothing happens
school shootings...

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At Sunday school 

Don’t break the rules

Sabbath ends on Saturday


Church is out

Devils sprout

In play grounds children stray


Void of God

A new Dollar Lord

They learn the prayers of hate


Emotional bullets

Shatter innocent hearts

Sad days of school shootings...

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too much hostilities
in all the big cities
and all the small towns
they have their own frowns
there's too many guns
for fathers and sons
people are dying
many are lying
shootings are on the rise
and way too many cries
guns are selling like hotcakes
our protection no mistakes
U.S. becoming bloody
making our future muddy...

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Undertones
Underpinned
My 9/11
was his
introduction
into the world
we live in.
Mass shootings
Overtones
Overly enumerated 
a shoulder shrug
Life goes on
But, does it really?
We want cures for
cancer
but won't
excise
the tumors
of our thinking
He's gone
I'm still here
undertow
with overflow
of life's deeper
meaning...

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Ranting, raving, protests and looting
Multiple deaths, multiple shootings

Why do we not cry out to God to fix this mess
To bring the Messiah, with peace this world bless

                       ********
That might have been a nice end to this poem
But God's Hearld is waiting until we show him
  that we will receive ~ not forgo him...

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We wish to live in peace 
How can it be so?
With guns and war
School shootings and rights taken 
Land of the free?
More like home of the oppressed. 
Claiming to be free
Without knowing freedom
Stop the lies 
Stop the hate
No more segregation 
We stand as one
Under our 
Red white and blue flag
Our symbol of freedom 
Is not free...

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A tragic mass shooing has occurred once more.
This time, in a Boulder, Colorado grocery store.
Today, it seems there is no safe place to go.
Incidence of gun violence seems to grow.
The number of murdered victims amounted to ten.
It looks like we cannot keep this from happening again. 

From a news story found on CNN.com
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Here's another shooting incident we have to see:
This was at a high school in Knoxville, Tennessee.
There was a wounded police officer and one fatality.
No known students were counted as a casualty.
We have heard about shootings in the news too frequently.
I wish I didn't have to write this kind of poetry.

From a news story found on msn.com...

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Killing each other

Whether Christian or Muslim 

A crime against God!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
     15 March 2019


BBC: Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 40 wounded in shootings
at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

RIP our brothers!

* I am a Christian but my heart is bleeding the same for my Muslim brothers!...

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Another gunman opened fire and went wild.
Among his four deceased victims was a child.
It all happened in Orange, California, near Los Angeles.
Many people are outraged because of this.
Why have there been numerous shootings like these?
I'm afraid in the near future, there will be more fatalities.

From a news story found on aol.com
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Innocence lost on the battlefield of life.
A baby born just to sink into sin.
What are we doing to ourselves, our children?
Suicide running rampant.
The bullies and the bullied.
School shootings; everyone questions why?
Why did this happen?
Open your eyes and look around at this world we live in.

Ashes to ashes.
Dust to dust.
Soon there will be no more us......

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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes

Just a bullet spent while another dies

Mass shootings occur as our flag still waves

More caskets are buried in shallow graves

The right to bear arms is still in our sights

Those ill of mind shouldn't have the same rights

The madder they get more people will die

As long as there's yet free bullets to fly...

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Social issues affects many people from all walks of life. 
A nation of destruction from past to present days from addictions, excess bank fees, church burnings and shootings, Covid 19, human trafficking, famine,, food shortages, childhood traumas, mental illness, no affordable housing, homelessness are the results of causes and effects of social issues beyond one’s control....

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Watching the news
makes me want to cry
I read it in the paper
and I can't stop asking 'why?'

An innocent one that has to die
I feel the tears in my eyes.
A family with a broken heart
the world we know,
is falling apart.



~~My Heart goes out to all the families who were victims of school shootings. ?? We HAVE to end this! I don't want to hear of another victim!!...

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Red, yellow, blue.
The fireworks in the sky 
Go crackle boom-
And mother-
Like a child,
Scurries
To her room-
For the sounds 
Remind her of
Shootings in Beirut
Bombings in Batroun
Other mothers sobbing over their
Children’s tombs
The fireworks in the sky
Go crackle boom-
And the city celebrates
As my mother’s
Cold heart
(Iced with fiery war-)
Thaws with gloom....

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Folk commit heinous crimes
we hear it on the news
senseless stabbings
multiple shootings
Bang! Bang! Bang!
So many innocent victims lose their lives

Callous cold blooded killers
get locked up in a cell
some live for many years on ‘death row’
they get reprieve after reprieve
sadly the victim’s families have a life sentence
and yet they call this justice


12/18/18...

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School Shootings
Miracle Man
6-6-2022

School shootings can never be unseen,
they’re scenes, which children never forget.
Real life pictures that became obscene,
forcing children to live their lives in regret.

An evil person, their innocence has stolen,
young hearts now become filled with fear.
Sleepless nights, eyes red and swollen,
recalling daily those whom they held dear.
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