Gun violence Poems
Fatal Shots
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
They rang out clear on the spine of the night,
Smashing stained glass of basement churches
And disembowelling pots of truths.
Aiming at the tendons of hate from
Lone-eyed monsters,
The slugs, flaming and fertile,
And with sparks of racial rage,
Penetrate America's gloom
With a boom.
The Greatest Country in the World
by Layne Brogden
One hundred and forty mass shootings,
Over two hundred lives lost,
One hundred and two days into the year.
We consider ourselves the greatest country in the world,
A country that bans books instead of guns,
Forces women to have children,
Even when their young.
A place people don’t feel safe when leaving home,
Afraid of loaded guns.
How can we say we are the greatest country in the world,
......
Our Babies
by Corey Alpough
What are they doing to our babies
Looking on the news and see that they been dying lately,
What is going on this world its getting kinda crazy
Drop them off at school to tell them see you later, maybe
They go to school to learn and have fun
Shouldn’t have to worry about a killer with a gun
Preaching to them in the room like a nun
Praying to God that they never have to run
......
11:11
by Ceyx Kingfisher
Standing up and spitting down,
Stay praying for something to say.
All the decked out checked out hoodie hacks,
Hanging back way in the Slack.
Parsing Sharp and Forth,
Psycho goth tigers padded pacing,
Straitlaced tracing froth,
Grazing an ittle little bitty bit of meaning.
Congealing Venti steaming. Oxy healing.
Degaussed egos packed to the ceiling.
......
Fatal Shots
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
They rang out clear on the spine of the night,
Smashing stained glass of basement churches
And disembowelling pots of truths.
Aiming at the tendons of hate from
Lone-eyed monsters,
The slugs, flaming and fertile,
And with sparks of racial rage,
Penetrate America's gloom
With a boom.
The Greatest Country in the World
by Layne Brogden
One hundred and forty mass shootings,
Over two hundred lives lost,
One hundred and two days into the year.
We consider ourselves the greatest country in the world,
A country that bans books instead of guns,
Forces women to have children,
Even when their young.
A place people don’t feel safe when leaving home,
Afraid of loaded guns.
How can we say we are the greatest country in the world,
......
Our Babies
by Corey Alpough
What are they doing to our babies
Looking on the news and see that they been dying lately,
What is going on this world its getting kinda crazy
Drop them off at school to tell them see you later, maybe
They go to school to learn and have fun
Shouldn’t have to worry about a killer with a gun
Preaching to them in the room like a nun
Praying to God that they never have to run
......
11:11
by Ceyx Kingfisher
Standing up and spitting down,
Stay praying for something to say.
All the decked out checked out hoodie hacks,
Hanging back way in the Slack.
Parsing Sharp and Forth,
Psycho goth tigers padded pacing,
Straitlaced tracing froth,
Grazing an ittle little bitty bit of meaning.
Congealing Venti steaming. Oxy healing.
Degaussed egos packed to the ceiling.
......
