The currency of powerPower equals currency
In a world that actively yearns for it
The more you have the more you are worshiped
And with worship becomes freedom
Where inequality is something they abuse
And power is the excuse they use as a campaign
To bully the people that they blame
To start an agenda of hate for the only personal gain
The same...
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Categories:
violence, discrimination, political, power, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Can Composure be Taught
Can composure somehow be taught
pre-packaged ‘poise lessons’ bought
Can’t say I ever gave it a thought
‘til I watched a WNBA 'game'
...
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Categories:
basketball, violence, women,
Form: Rhyme
Dead Or Alive
Some are less concerned
it seems to me
with the killing of the living
(whose taxes pay each Supreme Court employee)
than that of the unborn
or perhaps I should be more forgiving
but when someone says,
'Guns don't kill people, people do,'
(it drives me to vexation)
as I've never heard someone died
of a drive-by strangulation
(Have you?)
...
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Categories:
violence, death, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
You can't run from accountabilityWe know your game
And we are not going to become slaves to it
We've seen you spin your lies like a spiders Web
Your crimes of deceit will come back to smite you
The heavens will rain down on you
There is no escape from eternity
Hear these words said
Let them infest your head
Your silence will betray you...
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Categories:
violence, color, discrimination, prejudice, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Love Hurts
“Kiss me,” she says—
her eye swollen, rimmed in red.
“Hold me,”
but not like that.
Not with fear pressed
into every rib.
He doesn’t answer.
Just slams the door.
“He loves me,”
she whispers to no one,
eyes darkening with
each retreating footstep.
Years of apologies
smear her reflection.
Each bruise
a disappearing act.
“He’s just under stress,”
she murmurs,
twins curled at her breast
like unanswered prayers.
“I push him, really.
He doesn’t mean...
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Categories:
violence, anger, cry, poems,
Form: Free verse
Donald Trump is the felon on the looseImmortal mind, my ghost follows my every move.
Intercepted thoughts, clearheaded internal function.
Machines roam this world, time of the metal mind,
loss of human conscience, Elon Musk taking over the world!
Political confusion, MAGA intrusion, January 6th.
Hate your neighbor! Love your enemy! Donald Trump!
Constitution is the thing of the past, lock her up!!
No excuse given, just pure ignorance,...
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Categories:
violence, america, betrayal, bullying, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Haiku of A modern day holocaust:3
Justice can’t be served
in Gaza blood soaked stained sands
200,000 lives massacre...
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Categories:
violence, 8th grade, anger, atheist,
Form: Haiku
I dont blame herI dont blame her for how she chose to survive
It was never really her choice
It was a forced setup
A gun forced into our hand
To absolve them of guilt
But they guide our hands
On to the trigger
And coax us into pulling it
But was it really suicide
When the world forced...
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Categories:
violence, discrimination, hate, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
A funeral for myselfIt was a funeral for myself
And I still haven't buried her yet
The sky opened up and released its anger
Rained down in grief and sadness
The only other witness to her multiple deaths
The world built her to break
It was too late to save her
For she was now unrecognisable
In a casket crafted from pain...
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Categories:
violence, death, discrimination, funeral, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
naked gunThere once was a man who loved guns
With women he hit no home runs
He'd whip out his round
And shoot it outbound
While wishing to target their buns...
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Categories:
violence, anxiety, fantasy, identity, men,
Form: Limerick
I am the mirrorI am the mirror of truth
I am the reflection of accountability
That will show the shards of what is, not what's not
I will reflect their own darkness back at them
So they can feel an ounce of the pain we suffered through
To confront the truth of their own inferiority
And be trapped in a room full...
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Categories:
violence, discrimination, evil, metaphor, mirror,
Form: Free verse
The End of an Era: A Letter to Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu,
you once stood as a symbol of Israel’s resolve,
but power gained through fear and manipulation
is a flame that burns its master first.
You rose through the ranks
on speeches of security and pride,
but history has already spoken—
the tears of Gaza will not be washed away by silence.
Every forty-five minutes, a child died,
and the world watched—
but the...
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Categories:
violence, conflict, god, history, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Take Back The Streets
There used to be a time I can still remember when
but times have changed they're not the same
we have to roll the rock turn back the clock
things are going wrong something's gone astray
the streets are yours and mine
let's make them safe for kids to play
the good old days do you still remember then
those days are...
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Categories:
violence, children, city, how i
Form: Rhyme
The Silent ScreamsThere are voices all around us
Not loud, not obvious,
But aching to be heard.
Within this poem lies three unheard stories
Three souls, each silenced by society
A woman who smiles in fear.
A boy punished for love.
And a girl whose dreams shrink in the shadows.
Their pain is different,
But their silence is the same.
This poem is for them
For the unheard,...
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Categories:
violence, 10th grade, angst, anti
Form: Narrative
The strength we embodyThey told us our skin meant exile
That our joy would be put on trial
Because it brings rain
But how can they hate the rain when it nourishes the ground we walk on
The same ground that grows the food we need to survive
They want us to cower in the face of their Whiteness
To bow down to their...
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Categories:
violence, discrimination, prejudice, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Violence Poems
Definition | What is Violence in Poetry?
Poems Related to Violence
rampage, disturbance, brutality, clash, confusion, assault, fighting, cruelty, attack, struggle, disorder, bloodshed, fury, onslaught, ruckus, sharpness, bestiality, coercion, fuss, severity, flap, roughness, fierceness, vehemence, passion