Crime Acrostic Poems

These are a selection of acrostic poems I made up:
(for the next 2, the crime verses are the same, for repetition!)
Knife Crime
Killings
Now very "popular"
Incidental?
For saftey, for protection
Emotionally slaughtering the family
Crying
Running
Incredibly...
MAD!
Eager to see Death..
Violent Crime
Very hard to describe
Intruiging? No
Over-powering
Lonliness causes this.
Eager to please
"Noooo!"
Tearing of hearts...
Crying
Running
Incredibly...
MAD!
Eager to see Death..
Hate Crime
Hate
Absolutely...
Terrible
Emotionally helpless
Crying
Running
Incredibly...
MAD!
Eager to see hurt...
Burglery
(I'm being the burgler here)
Bins? Nah
Upstairs drawer?
Ringing the doorbell? No, not for me...
Good, I've gotten through
Live, Laugh, Love, Burgle
Eeeeh... That's more like it!
Really annoying to the home, I know
Yes! I've got it...
Comments (4)
21 Feb 2019
Well done. You could’ve extended the verses. It was a bit too short.
Acrostic poems are meant to be short! I didn’t want it to sound lengthy.
Acrostic poems are often short and snappy. How did you decide what content to include in a shorter poem?
First of all, I guess I had to think about what I actually wanted to say. I knew that acrostic poems don’t have to (if ever) rhyme, having written one published in a book before, and I tried to think about the different perspectives: e.g. the family, the actual victim and the person committing the crime - explaining why I did the last one as though I’m the burglar. I found this quite interesting, because normally, we only think “Oh, poor them” or “Gosh! Why would they do that?” Not really answering the question. Although I didn’t actually include this in the poem, (except how they are “eager to see death and hurt”) I think I definitely thought about it - one way or another! Making the poster beforehand also helped because it gave me the chance to look back so that I actually know what I’m doing. As you say, Acrostic Poems are meant to be short, so I did have to bear that in mind. (Though, I had to go over it again and edit once or twice; it was simply repeating the same thing - but not a good example of repetition)
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