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Categories:
murder, betrayal, bird, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse
Tears in GazaThe wives wail for their fallen husbands' embrace,
The children's tears fall on their mothers' lifeless face,
Men beg for mercy from soldiers in the fray,
I weep, powerless to save them from this dismay.
Displaced and far from...
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Categories:
murder, faith, freedom, grief, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Rose Red Pyre Black PetalsVisceral incantation from onyx velvet lips,
moan, groan, to twist my bits as a witch.
Salem pyre ancient oak standing the edifice,
wrist shackled chains gather round vile cultist.
Breast bang dolorous dirge ignition of limbs,
Rictus permeated rancor give...
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Categories:
dark, death, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
The Weight of TimeI feel the weight of time
Pressing down on my neck
I thought the weight of
stress would dissipate
with time
but the frosting
no longer tastes
better than the cake.
How could the snow
no longer look the same?
Santa nothing but...
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Categories:
murder, betrayal, dark, death, fear,
Form: Prose
Can't rebuildIn my sense of dwarfish
I sought to fill the hole in
Myself with plain grass and cow dung
But know I see that the kinly love
I wish to carry and craddle
Is locked behind a curtain...
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Categories:
murder, anti bullying, bullying, cry,
Form: Ninette
As My Body RotsAs I succumb to the wounds you've inflicted
gasping for air, for life,
eyes bloodshot, cheeks wet,
Will you love me then?
My cold, bloodied body will lay lifeless in your bed,
my crimson seeping into the sheets.
What will you...
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Categories:
murder, conflict, dark, heartbreak, love,
Form: Free verse
Front-Page Headline News
Categories:
death, moving on, murder,
Form: Prose Poetry
Murders and mysteriesIt's a whodunit
with mystery and suspense
right up to the end...
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Categories:
murder, mystery,
Form: Senryu
Six DogsSix dogs die
And one guy cries
the dogs are not political
Oh! My, My,
Don’t you know?
Deaths are always political
Be it mosquitoes or a martyr
Someone’s always there to take credit
to call them pest or bravehearts
to declare them something
to...
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Categories:
murder, cry, death, dog, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Shepherd's WatchA voice for the voiceless
whose cry still unheard
Alone in the womb
but blessed by the Word
Defending the helpless
as murderers loom
Divinity watching
— a reckoning soon
(The New Room: April, 2024)
...
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Categories:
abortion, birth, death, murder,
Form: Rhyme
'Peaceful Campus Protests'
Shouts of ‘Only one solution –
an Intifada Revolution’
at protests described as ‘peaceful’
by pundits expert at circumlocution...
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Categories:
hate, jewish, murder, peace,
Form: Couplet
IncarnateBoyhood days of bees, butterflies and songs,
The protective range of my mother’s voice,
A sweet, happy place where a boy belongs.
A conch shell, a snow-white beach, and a choice.
“Leave it”, she said, “this seashell’s...
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Categories:
drug, mother, murder, sea,
Form: Sonnet
America's Decency's GoneWhere has America’s decency gone
Long time passing
All the folks who support Hamas
would thrill to Auschwitz’ gassings
Hamas rapes, burns and slaughters Jews
...
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Categories:
america, memory, motivation, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Trick Up Her SleeveWritten by Gail DeBole
on April 24, 2024
He ransacked the dumpster near the vacant campground
Looking for small trinkets like a well-trained bloodhound.
You know the story. His wife had to go.
After her death, his assets would grow.
He...
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Categories:
betrayal, death, murder,
Form: Couplet
Prior to the AfterlifeThe ceiling sparkled;
I saw the big dipper, then the little one.
The painters needed a bigger tip for their creative execution.
Without a warning to prepare, a requiem played.
The symphony corned all aspects of a...
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Categories:
anger, farewell, murder, pain,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Murder Poems
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