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Retribution Poems - Poems about Retribution

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Premium Member Changing Ends
The gravedigger’s spade shall dig and not waver Theres gossip abroad and it’s gossip to savour Four dozen worms that were once many more Awaited the man they’d encountered before It wasn’t just blackbirds that liked a good worm This...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Retribution
Everything that you do Is permissible, but not All are rewarding....Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, engagement, meaningful, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Senryu



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the vanquished were mocked humiliated their graves were unmarked memory erased that day space was scarred it wept silently time too held its breath in stench of decay womb of Mother Earth became infertile Schumann’s resonance dropped its frequency the sun dimmed its light moonlight became...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, death, evil, sin,
Form: Verse
Trump Poems and Epigrams VI
Trump Poems and Epigrams VI Trump’s Retribution Resolution by Michael R. Burch My New Year’s resolution? I require your money and votes, for you are my retribution. May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats and bigger and deeper moats as part of my sweet...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, america, giggle, hilarious, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Sinner's Retribution
Hands clasped, eyes closed Future’s dim, stories untold Awaiting the ember flame brimming with toiling shame Pleading for a broken retribution Grasping for my long, lost salvation What have I done? Where have I gone? I’ve lost my way under the guiding...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, death, forgiveness, religious,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Learning From Loss
The hardest losses are those too late to repair what has been win/win time lost to despair Just as love cannot co-arise where fear grows fully uprisen a prison predicting anger's nearby impetuously apprised surprise. So too, Freedom cannot thrive where addiction has hard helped us feel we are...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, addiction, anger, fear, happiness,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Retribution
You shall always think of me. You shall soon see How you went about it all wrongly, As well as how you wronged me. You shall always think of me. You shall soon see How I much rather things be, And how...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, abuse, hate,
Form: Quatrain
In the Fires of Retribution
Our final hour draws near As the pillars of the earth Are raised above the threshold The human condition of primeval primitivity It's tribal, and civilized devices Our cherished, but brittle and unstable societal constructs Have been refined and pondered upon By wisemen...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, bereavement, heart, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Into the Flames
Into the Flames is where your soul will remain The book of Life thirsts for God's pen of judgement and smite Can't erase it even if you thought forgetting would please Him You walked around without repentance holding...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, allegory, bereavement, christian, death,
Form: Rhyme
Thief of Trust Dishonesty Seething
The only thing I hate more than unintelligence Is a bold-faced liar that thinks they blend amongst friends Using weakenesses as weapons falsely condescending contention Crashing house of cards paper tiger denys a correction Even knowing that they face...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, betrayal, blessing, character, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Dissonance Diminished
From the time we spent in vain There was alot I did not gain From the breath of mornings kiss To the taste of evenings bliss Cast a shadow of formless waste Hollow shell. A basket case Numbing touch I've...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, absence, allegory, best friend,
Form: Verse
Premium Member War and Peace In the Time of Love's Retribution
"War and Peace in the Days of Love’s Retribution" All is fair in Love and War they say Lost are the gambling angels who walk tight ropes from the point where time departed the jewel stolen from her crown sacrificed for...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
What Is the Price of Your Voice
On July 4th, 1776 This Land Became Emancipated or Freed from Great Britain, though My Fore-Fathers would Remain Enslaved for the Next 80 Plus Years Till September 22, 1862, and again on June 19th, 1865...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, america, christian, discrimination, independence
Form: Free verse
Not Your Father's Reaper
You pick a fight to live today, You tell the time you saw the dreamed-of shore of an island, Gilligan, Gentle wind at your cheek, A kiss parting lips caress, A day wide-eyed as a lamb, But then the harrow...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, inspirational, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Port Royal
PORT ROYAL You want to see the fate that was Port Royal’s? Then let me flyyou back three hundred years: look in this tavern, see those buccaneers, flushed more from fiery grog than honest toils, who soon would dice...Read the rest...
Categories: retribution, religious,
Form: Suzette Prime

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