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Slaughterhouse Poems - Poems about Slaughterhouse


Premium Member Slaughterhouse - Abercrombie
It's amazing what the sun can bleach How light can shine in and out of a place it shouldn't The workmanship means the walls stand strong But this place was always washed down at the end of the day It's presence standing here hasn't changed Where you walk in and don't walk out That feeling hangs in the air No matter how...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Candle of the World
It is the slaughterhouse of love for both of us My soul is tired of this story The caravan of a loyal friend is easy Keep me, my family, my life, keep me But if my way is easy Follow your path, I know my mirror Shadowed, I ask for a hand from Saba It's hard for me to deal with this...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, adventure, baby, best friend,
Form: Free verse



Slaughterhouse News
yet they thrive. there's no other way: they like the soap opera. subliminal, it opens a hole in their brains. then they sleep lobotomized, to wake up lambs with stale bread in the morning, happy and huddled together on the train heading to the slaughterhouse. Carpe Dien, says the old woman that saw the movie. everything is worth it when the soul...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, death, life, work,
Form: Free verse
A Slaughterhouse Escape
A tractor trailer with slats and moos pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy ramble down the street. Cop cars follow in no hurry. Police don’t have lassos and wouldn't know how to use them. The cattle stop for a snack in a...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, poverty,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Slaughterhouse
comets strike terror bombing nations rapid fire... a slaughterhouse roasts spiked towers pierce flesh… drenched with blood of raw corpses like clotheslines on trees from skies tainted black grounds crumble into thin rust… world in drained sandbag then, God says enough angels swoop to tend remains… guarding earth anew .......... . ...

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Categories: slaughterhouse, confusion, time,
Form: Haiku




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