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POEM STARTER

Inspired by Maranda Quinn

Write a poem centred around the theme of destruction.

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Afraid Of Blood

I know your plan

Wait till you can

Blood on the first day

That game, I can play


Whenever you say my name

I feel you and I are the same

But you always hesitate

Your fear is so great


You know how to get there

To give them that deadly stare

But you don't know how to punch

Eat their pain for lunch


You are too afraid to fight

Faint at the sight

Of a red drop

That pain I cannot stop


It is my life

...

Destruction and Construction

The opposite of consrtruction

Might just be destruction

But there would be no production

Without destruction.


For each and every brick

And each and every stick

Did not start with a magic trick

But with destruction.


For the brick requires dirt

And for that the earth gets hurt

By mines the earth is girt

And that is destruction.


Metals like iron, alloys like steel

Farming for food to have a meal

A...

Lost

I had always been torn

Down,

Pushed around,

Since the day I was born.


My faith in things like laughter

And love

Flew away like doves

After

Society broke my heart

And destroyed my fragile

Soul.


I lost my faith in humanity,

For no matter how hurt I was,

It showed me no remorse,

No guilt, not even a tiny bit of pity.


It annoyed

Me that they

Had destroyed

Me in such a

Harsh manner,

So now I wave

...

Sharking

I’m tired of waiting

Always waiting

Wondering when you’ll notice


I gave you so many signs

It’s not hard to understand

That I’m not what you

Want me to be


When do I have to

Destroy the perfect picture

Of the girl you think I am


I’m sitting here

My world spinning

My heart pumping

Too fast

Too slow

My thoughts scattered

But you don’t know

You can’t see it

You won’t see it


“They can find it in...

Napalm Rain

Liquified flesh

Incendiary screams

Makers of the death sky’s

Pure souls deflowered

Innocence is lost

Upon the sludge flames

A concophony of choas

Animals and humans in discord

A chorus of hellish screams

War of the unholy heroes

Jungle of the burnt man

Wasted time

Wasted lives

Lost to the fumes of time

Earth that is beyond scorched

The scars of the unfair

Breathe stolen; life ablaz...

"Echoes of Ruin"

Beneath the weight of shattered skies,

The earth ignites, the silence dies.

In crumbling streets, the ashes fall,

A broken world, no voice to call.


a place so pretty, now in ruins.

nobody sure what to say.

will the world continue after this day.


people work, people sleep.

but the world they once had, is now obsolete.


they try to fix it.

they try to ignore

but this place is now unfit.


t...

Author Of My Own Destruction

One day, the earth cracked open

And another asshole leapt out, smirking with malice

I ended up marrying him

Like an idiot


A red dawn appeared out of the blue

And I threw a thunderbolt at it, but it eluded me

I ended up causing a landslide

I hit bottom


A trash compactor with teeth yawned widely

And I threw everything I loved into it

I ended up alone

Like garbage...

Destruction

The Home I built

Crumbled at my feet

Shattered glass

Shattered trust

Broken hearts

Shed tears

and Innocence we cant regain


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Ups And Downs

Life has its ups and downs

Why is it always down

I can’t find an up

And somehow it keeps getting lower


Why can’t it stop

I think the same thing every morning

Why can’t my thoughts,

My questions be answered


I just want to know something

I can’t get answers


I want to be done with life

So does my brain

So does my body

Why can’t it just stop...

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burning tyres

You've gotten sloppy;

Your poems don't read like they used to.

Hand sanitiser, drying up.

What use have you for being clean?

Or maybe you should down it.


Tell me why

You only write when your lungs are

Asbestos and dynamite.

So you can spill onto a screen

Your godless coughing, and

Un-literary prowess?

Whispered screams

And puppy eyes,

You're barking mad.


When did you forget what poetry is?

Why...

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