Best Shootings Poems

1. Then the Inhabitants of those Cities:
Felt their Nerves change into Marrow
And hardening Bones began
In swift diseases and torments,
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Eerie howling, wolfhound calling.
Amber eyes alight.
Spirit of the deepest forest.
Stealthy pads the night.
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Praise to you, Lord, for our life and our experience.
Thank you for our success and our occasional failures,
and for giving us the grace to learn from both.
Thank you for allowing us to live long enough to gain wisdom,
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'T is said that in the Holy Land
The angels of the place have blessed
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Wide Worldly Wish….
Poem During These Corona Pandemic Times
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How we were friends
Throughout the years
Some in kindergarten
Warm milk made us peaceful
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The patter of rain in early spring
The song of birds being sung
I'd rather hear then about shootings
Or many people in sorrow
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We are equals
War is yours
War is ours
Since we want it
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I heard from people after the shootings. People
I knew well or barely or not at all. Largely
the same message: how horrible it was, how little
there was to say about how horrible it was.
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No religious wars
No political domination
No economic gains
Just pure hatred for humanity
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copyright 04-21-08
for single-parent urban Moms
Happy Mother's Day
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New York City psychologist, Kathryn Faughey,
was hacked to death by a patient.
It was very personal killing by the use sharp objects,
not a projectile from a barrel,
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Who can forget that tragic day
The year 1970, the month of May

The National Guardsman’s poised on a hill
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Who created all this anger?
The unrest that makes man fight
Who sends the mobs out in the streets?
To set the cars alight
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Dear America:

It must be nice to be insulated
Against this evolving world
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Here's three cheers for the U.S.A.
Home to the Brave and the KKK
Where wealth buys stock in liberty
and the poor die on social security
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Enough is Enough!
This can't go on
And something must be done
NOW! ! !
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Dallas, sad, all!
'Action and reaction are opposite and equal';
With police Shootings against American Citizens,
And with the citizens replying the Police in the same way! !
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I am telling you the truth herewhat I remember;
First round for fun was from Mark 4 or 303 rifle's fire!
Then bullets of defenders flew like bees were after attackers;
Heavy machine guns, LMG bullets came from soldiers! !
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year date: July 2016
continent location: North America
country location: mainland USA
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With faith in their eyes they had gathered to pray
they had not come there to see massacre or hate;
they had themselves vouched to assemble
with peace in their minds and reverence in their hearts;
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Thursday was another sad day as another life went unfulfilled
A colleague of a friend of mine was waiting for a bus when he was shot and killed.
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A Society disintegrating politically and socially,
Liberalism kills!
'Let everyone do whatever they want! '
No holding back, no religious frills,
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Trillions
spent in lives and
treasure lost.
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Murder is without a doubt a very extreme, coldhearted, cowardly deed,
So, it usually deals with jealously, selfishness, immorality and/or greed,
Here's a death planned by criminal masterminds of the highest degree,
That of Colonel James Sabow, “USMC.”
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ALCOHOL AND WAR
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EXCESS DRINKING CAUSES
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Place: morning before the shooting
Place: student's home
Reason: to present a different position on the NRA, from the current one around
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Drawn scorn forlorn like this
In and through this
While the bulk of skulking hulks balk, face trial
While retorse remorseless Dr. Death retorts tut-tutting,
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Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
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Shootings in the day
Shootings at night
Welcome to Baltimore
Be careful with your life
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Nazi's are making their way back,
Another Hitler will soon rise.
Society will come to crack,
This will surely be our demise.
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FATHER'S DAY TRIBUTE TO MY FATHER

A civil war failed me a duty to my father (2)
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It's a firework holiday,
so let's light up the night,
wave the stars and stripes,
eat barbecue and drink bud light.
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Father in the heaven! I will love you until I die;
It's a sin for me to say you goodbye!
Father! You gave me a life, your gene to share;
Thus, you are alive in me, forever!
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Father (A war hero, an army officer of the First world war (1914-1918)and a martyr of the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971) . The photo was taken in September of 1965.


I am telling you the truth here what I remember;
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MY FATHER GOT THE BULLET IN THAT BLOODY WAR
Poem by Chan Mongol
I am telling you the truth here what I remember;
First round for fun was from Mark 4 or 303 rifle's fire!
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TALKERS
Poem by: Chan Mongol

Many talker people never been caught in the middle of a horrible war;
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Another mass shooting…this one in Texas…I don't remember exactly when
because the days all run together…and there's been 6 more since then.

We're on a pace to break the record for mass shootings in one year…
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We've abused our great freedoms
to reap the results
with school and church shootings
hate speech a new cult
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'That girl of nineteen who was shot in the knees
And thrown down the concrete stairs in Berlin
Whose fate raised a righteous anger
That pleased you in its excitement -
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Hurricanes are massive…they devastate cities, homes…and more.
But hurricanes are natural disasters…we can't stop them from coming ashore.

We have come to realize that hurricanes, swirling off the water, are the norm…
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Another mass shooting this one in California…and another day goes by…
289 people are shot in America each day…87 of them die…

I'm not sure which is sadder that each day 289 shootings are taking place
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What if she was you and you were she in those massage parlors?
what if she had to shoot you when you least expected it?
what if she had grudges against you as an Asian-American?
what if you had done no wrong and you were innocent?
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Can no power on this earth stop this war
when millions of people have lost their homes,
when thousands of people have lost their lives?
how will a nation uphold its duty and honor
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Many deaths, many wounded
many bombs, many explosions;
many soldiers, many shootings
many dead, many injured;
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A hundred days of war and no peace
a hundred days of no mercy nor compassion,
a hundred days of no proper food nor nutrition
a hundred days of sleeplessness and anxiety;
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Tall skyscrapers, tall buildings
many apartments, many people
metro networks, many travelers,
many buses, many roadways;
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2016 USA President Barack was silent
did nothing while white police officers
wore their immunity police uniforms
executed innocent black lives victims
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if you are recognized as the most
powerful man in your country
the most powerful man in the land
the most powerful man in the world
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increasing bills
cost of living makes
reality a scary place
politics politicians taxes;
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write I wanted to write something meaningful one day
meaningful is insight sadly not everyone's cup of tea today
many expressional prefer coffee on the run just to have fun
escapism from work life realities when the day is done;
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Hey, Xavy:
If we're still here
When you get older,
Check if they fixed the potholes
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Hey, Xavy:
If we're still here
When you get older,
Check out the potholes on my street;
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they were not killed
because they were American
they were killed
because they were GAY
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announce official Queen Bee Cindy Arden Labour party policy
it is remove all assault rifles automatics from citizen peasantry;
allow all criminal gangs Tribesmen and Killer Beez gang rivalry
their firearm incident drive by shootings are acceptable anarchy;
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announce official Queen Bee's
Cindy Arden Labour party policy
it is remove all assault rifles
automatics from citizen peasantry;
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ignore violence ignore crime
Queen Cindy acceptable criminality
gang shootings spilling into Auckland
suburbs is a new terror normality;
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ignore grass roots kiwi violence ignore crime
part of release nation wide prisoners Queen Cindy
prison's too full new acceptable criminality policy;
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Queen Bee Cindy rolls out stolen car ram raids,
youth crime to corner shops, liquor stores jewellers numerous;

Queen Bee Cindy dramatically increases, drive by shooting statistics,
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it is true writers poets
journalists observe witness
feel then emotive write
an interesting point;
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I have thought believed
since about twenty
that most people are so engaged
with stress working economic;
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year date: July 2016
continent location: North America
country location: mainland USA
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- - - - - - - - - - - WE REAP WHAT WE SOW- - - - - - - - - -
According to Ann Graham, late Billy Graham´s daughter,
in an interview:
There IS war, because we ourselves want that eagerly since we refused peace
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Wish I could
paint a beautiful picture
of the world
and its condition
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In their law uniforms
The brave drive off
Not knowing who shall return.
With a proud devotion
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A Muslim kills... he must be terrorist
A Black dude kills... he must be a thug
A White man kills... he has mental illness
And suffers from lack of love!
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Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Schicklgruber was
the illegitimate child of Maria Schicklgruber.
World history could have been different if their rather
farcical surname stuck, but it was changed to Hitler
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Another mass shooting.
This time a young white man
shoots nine black people
in a South Carolina church
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Logistical reasoning would infer that over the course
of hundreds
of thousands of years humanity
lived in a very violent habitat, where violence
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Poetry even after being here twelve years
I have great difficulty
In piecing together a poem that is worthy
Of your interest.
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Einsatzgruppen ultimate genocide killing machines
plans so heinous Satan glorified as his SS hells legions;
task forces sowed vile atrocious monstrous Nazi deeds
SS paramilitary death squads systematic mass killings;
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Express like an eclipse from the air above
A beautiful shootings stars in heavens
Shining rays in a misty morning of enchantment
With gravity and intensity from gist of the heart
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Why do shootings occur,
Why do mind mindlessly,
What the reasons?
Who those gun-masters,
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Why do shootings take place,
Why do they shoot after all,
Who are those shooters,
What their identity
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Why do shootings occur,
Why do mind mindlessly,
What the reasons?
Who those gun-masters,
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written in response to '8 Dead in Atlanta Spa Shootings, With Fears of Anti-Asian Bias, ' The New York Times, March 17

white on white on this snowy day
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The Brave New World, XXXII

a shooting star...
another black man
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A haiku sequence written in response to mass shootings in the United States in 2022

on the news ticker
another mass shooting...
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Delirium!

In the bus; holding knife
He cut head; end to end.
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Charleston shootings

Esfahan is the city where I lived as a child
I was there for some months, since flood.
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Iranian Che

The shootings and murders
On the roads, inside jails
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Barcelona

Their tears fall and fill
-my dimples
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1342 to 1357

In 1342,
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['In Gaza, Fiery Insults to Jews Complicate Peace Efforts' - New York Times,1st April 2008]

['Here lie the killer and the killed,
asleep in one hole' - Mahmoud Darwish]
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Note-I wrote this the morning after the Parkland School shootings. I have just now found it again and had the courage to post it. WE MUST CHANGE OUR GUN LAWS! No more excuses! Never again!

Rewrite of The Murder Doll's song by the same name
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I’m concerned about the daily goings-on
The muggings, the shootings, the daily scams and cons
The politicians with their politics of lying
Their unnecessary wars, the unnecessary dying
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0715 shots ring out at least two are dead,
Most of the college students are still in bed,
Arising from slumber to check their email,
Everything’s normal with nothing new to tell.
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all fought for a reason
the liberators fought, hid
the freedom fighters, fought, hid
ambushed once in a while lopping off heads
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What do you suppose that means?

'What?
What does 'what' mean? '
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Why didn't witnesses stop a gang rape?
Why are there shootings on our streets?
Why are there crimes committed for everyone to see?
Why is there homelessness and hunger?
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The costumes adorned.
And the presentation to represent,
Your dialogue to encase mood and attitude...
You describe and to us relate,
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Of respect he may not be worthy but respect he command
The fellow who does have a gun in his hand
With the trigger unlocked and the barrel pointing towards your head
One word of disrespect at such a moment could leave you as dead
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The home of the brave and the land of the free
At least anyhow this is how it used to be
But in the U S nowadays homicides are rife
And many unarmed people there by foul means are losing their gift of life
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Men have not learned from war history war today is waged Worldwide
For God and Flag and Country far too many people have died
Far too many wars already waged in the twenty first century
A Human World that's free of conflict i may never live to see
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War it is criminal to say otherwise would be a lie
In war zones every day innocent children do die
And women are raped where serious crime it is rife
And little or no value on human life
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That war leads to acts of terrorism does seem fair to say
And more people in bombings and shootings are dying every day
That peace comes from conflict surely based on a lie
Some to kill those they see as their enemy are prepared to die
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Those guilty of murder live and die with their shame
It is people kill people though guns take the blame
Guns in the wrong hands a recipe for crime
So many firearm murders across decades of time
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For many the price of it is huge for to pay
When those who have power with their power do get carried away
Sadly history can repeat itself does seem true to say
The victims of despots in mass graves do lay
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In sexual drive with it's source in pleasure in most people a need
Linked in nature as the survival of our genes one of the main reasons we breed
This is what is known to some as protecting your seed
Us humans like most other creatures are quite complex indeed
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