Poems About Tragedy by Top Critiquers
#tragedy
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
19th Aug 2023 1:56am
19th Aug 2023 1:56am
Whole Life
Letby faces becoming only the second woman alive to be handed a whole-life order, meaning she would never be released from prison, when she is sentenced. The boys' parents described the nurse as a “danger to everyone” and said she should never be released.“ - Josh Halliday, “‘They could have stopped Lucy Letby’: babies’ parents criticise hospital bosses“, The Guardian, Fri 18 Aug 2023
A glistening van
in the rain
outside a courtroom.
A polished, oaken box
with brass rails.
An oil painting of
a woman weeping in the dock.
A pale...
A glistening van
in the rain
outside a courtroom.
A polished, oaken box
with brass rails.
An oil painting of
a woman weeping in the dock.
A pale...
#murder
#violence
#prison #tragedy
#prison #tragedy
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Lozzamus
Poem Published
13th Jul 2024 5:36pm
13th Jul 2024 5:36pm
Silent - A Tragedy
Two Years Ago, Gavin
After that? Pretty blurred, really. Tragic, like a dying swan. All that beauty gone. Jace invited me back to his for a drink and a grill up, but I made a decision: get a train and return home early, enough of Philippa. Dawn went to fetch Paul, and Paul drove Dawn, Jace and me back to Lyme House to collect my stuff. Then on to the train station.
We didn't say much on the way to the station. Such an intensity of emotion, Jace and Dawn seemed upset by my departure, even though we hardly knew each other.
At the station, Dawn hugged me,...
After that? Pretty blurred, really. Tragic, like a dying swan. All that beauty gone. Jace invited me back to his for a drink and a grill up, but I made a decision: get a train and return home early, enough of Philippa. Dawn went to fetch Paul, and Paul drove Dawn, Jace and me back to Lyme House to collect my stuff. Then on to the train station.
We didn't say much on the way to the station. Such an intensity of emotion, Jace and Dawn seemed upset by my departure, even though we hardly knew each other.
At the station, Dawn hugged me,...
#mystery
#risk
#tragedy
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gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
6th Aug 2019 11:12pm
6th Aug 2019 11:12pm
Summer Tragedy
Dog days of misfortune! Curses be fortune!
Sultry affliction beside the seaside’s beautiful fiction!
Shipwreck on the beach, for some a vacation of death!
This bottleneck constricted by the heat of my turtleneck.
Oh, I sweat in hope of the coming doom – so, so soon!
The catastrophe of lightning brings the agony of chastity!
So, to you my good beach goers, embrace the tragedy!
Sultry affliction beside the seaside’s beautiful fiction!
Shipwreck on the beach, for some a vacation of death!
This bottleneck constricted by the heat of my turtleneck.
Oh, I sweat in hope of the coming doom – so, so soon!
The catastrophe of lightning brings the agony of chastity!
So, to you my good beach goers, embrace the tragedy!
#summer
#tragedy
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Baldwin
Poem Published
8th Oct 2021 8:16pm
8th Oct 2021 8:16pm
Where are we headed to?
I wonder if,
in light of the rapidity
in which we see
the attitude of Lamech
towards those who might attempt
to injure him
encompassing the world
within a burgeoning hostility
that voids morality,
man’s destiny is doom
and inescapable calamity.
I doubt that love of enemy,
no matter how much honour
is obtained by it,
will ever be sufficient, fit
to quell, or more importantly, reverse
the darkening curse
that’s now upon humanity
and all the earth ...
in light of the rapidity
in which we see
the attitude of Lamech
towards those who might attempt
to injure him
encompassing the world
within a burgeoning hostility
that voids morality,
man’s destiny is doom
and inescapable calamity.
I doubt that love of enemy,
no matter how much honour
is obtained by it,
will ever be sufficient, fit
to quell, or more importantly, reverse
the darkening curse
that’s now upon humanity
and all the earth ...
#tragedy
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mysticstones
Poem Published
2nd Aug 2020 8:38pm
2nd Aug 2020 8:38pm
The Plantation
did the plantation ever die?
worthy of a private eye
a question, needing the address
flipping the pages of unrest.
vast were the lands
providing for the heritage to withstand.
now the humor is less than jest
once again the owners read from their list
mistakes, obviously they did make
heavens let's not forsake.
the fierce of the whip
in modern times they do skip.
honey from the evermore sinister
the plot now is given less vinegar.
did the plantation really die?
observing of these days,
cripples me to say. ...
worthy of a private eye
a question, needing the address
flipping the pages of unrest.
vast were the lands
providing for the heritage to withstand.
now the humor is less than jest
once again the owners read from their list
mistakes, obviously they did make
heavens let's not forsake.
the fierce of the whip
in modern times they do skip.
honey from the evermore sinister
the plot now is given less vinegar.
did the plantation really die?
observing of these days,
cripples me to say. ...
#freedom
#tragedy
#morality
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mel44
Poem Published
21st Mar 2023 3:33pm
21st Mar 2023 3:33pm
Mortality
Who shall explain
devastating tragedy
imprisoned in death
never to be free
Demons do creep
there is no misgiving
venomous strikes
attacking the living
Spectres of regret
carve images in the mind
casting ominous shadows
calamity assigned
Heart wrenching fate
brutal and unfair
it comes for us all
innocents beware
devastating tragedy
imprisoned in death
never to be free
Demons do creep
there is no misgiving
venomous strikes
attacking the living
Spectres of regret
carve images in the mind
casting ominous shadows
calamity assigned
Heart wrenching fate
brutal and unfair
it comes for us all
innocents beware
#dark
#death
#tragedy
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