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Crime Poems - Poems about Crime

Crime Poems - Examples of all types of poems about crime to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for crime.
Favorite Crime
I tried to talk my way to you But you push me aside Like I was an unpaid speeding ticket you shoved away You race down highways You dash through towns No GPS was needed As you...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, abuse, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse
Guilty as charged
A poet once said, Never trust blood with, traces of ink. Never trust the hand, that holds the pen. Poets? We’re Liars. Your Honour, I’m guilty, I know. My crime? Obsession. I have a problem, I admit. Everyone, does. How art thou so different from me? Obsession...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, angst, conflict, confusion, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member crime spree duo
The duo runs from the law and evades the police Their wild crime spree did not slow or cease Bank robberies gave them half million each Their next target is jewelry store at Redondo Beach...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member poetry is not a crime
You surely can rhyme Heard this all the time Poetry is not a crime It could be sublime It makes not a dime Can be done in quick time Words that somehow rhyme Pop out from the grime Slither through the slime Some of...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member rhyming
Poems don’t have to rhyme, free verse it isn’t a crime I can write what I please—don’t call the police. Must I play the game, rhyme and spill intimate things? Can I develop leitmotifs without rhyming riffs? I could...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, abuse, encouraging, nonsense, poems,
Form: Rhyme



knife crime
Cut throat Cut knife Its double edged life Blood drips Life slips Whispers gone away Nothing to say Young lives losts Souls gone forever All because people think there clever Brainwashed into senselessness Adding to there so called cleverness Innocent angels Dirty devils The...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, dark, deep, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Global Crime
Global Crime Control Lost minds Lost lives Lost futures Controlling you Psychology Global mind ...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, fate, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Is it a crime
Shadows protect the monsters in my head, But why cant they protect me instead. The doubts and thoughts haunt me, It seems as my past lives taunt me. Is it a crime to love the rush of adrenaline? Must I...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The tip of the iceberg
I went to see the wounded boy in the hospital bed He knew not who had shot him nor why they wished him dead. His cousins sat nearby; I asked them for a...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, crazy, evil, family, imagination,
Form: Lyric
Crime
Dummy tries to rob gun store outnumbered...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, america, crazy,
Form: Senryu
Jumping Jill
Jumping Jill she just loved to jump From when she woke until bedtime. She was afraid that she’d get plump If she did not jump through daytime. Once Jumping Jill did jumping jacks, She hit and broke Ma’s precious chime. Ma...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, 2nd grade, children, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Greed
Greedy, bitter, jealous, and lustful women with free range Unfortunately the masks are off; they will be treated estrange, Impersonating many people with prideful alter ego capacity Self absorbing made them all grin and behave with audacity, The investigation...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, america, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trailer Park
After work at Google, I sat with the guys I said we were elite, enlightened and wise We had to censor those in this benighted nation Who spread disruptive disinformation. A Venture Cap named Hank said this isn't fair He...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, america, culture, discrimination, humor,
Form: Lyric
When wearing white becomes a crime
I’ve missed out on pub table conversations the shocked laughter and gasps The feeling of validation that they seem to get from confessing and every time I feel ashamed and childish you stare back at me. Hurt. How they...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mafia Ghost of the Gargano crime family controls corruption from an empty grave
Deadly greed allows mafia leaders to fake their deaths and impersonate my deceased father born 1942 why old disagreement’s unfinished bribes payoffs bleeding the life out of fallen officers sigh for the giving pray for...Read the rest...
Categories: crime, angel, anti bullying,
Form: Englyn

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