What is poetic justice?

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   Roman Trendposted 13 years ago

   What is poetic justice?
   
   I would like to hear your definition, and also if you could give a good example.

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   Nikkij504gurlposted 13 years ago

   You ask of me, what is poetic justice?
   Its something I can not see.
   In everyday life, justice is corrupted,
   and keeps avoiding me.
   There's several flaws in the system,
   just beneath the skin.
   The world has forgotten virtue,
   They flock like sheep to to their sin.
   But it grinds at your teeth,
   it bites at your fingernails,
   it sits and stares at a soul,
   damaged beyond repair.
   We cling to our vices,
   our drugs, our addictions,
   not realizing these are the things,
   causing our afflictions.
   In a world based on justice alone,
   we would all rot in jail,
   but poetically speaking,
   we just breathe in the smoke and silently exhale.
   Eventually we all pay for our mistakes.
   Eventually we all get our due.
   But its not for me to judge,
   What is poetic justice to you?
   ~Nicole Marie Jordan

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   Roman Trendposted 13 years ago

   When an evil man walks – for a hundred days
   across the frozen plains,
   carrying deep in his belt the gold coins
   undeservedly in his possession, the spoils
   extorted from the frightened men
   the villagers from beneath the mountains
   
   When he sings, on the last day of winter,
   so gleeful for spring
   tomorrow will come
   equip him with riches, so safe and so dry
   and when he falls on the last stretch
   into hidden pockets of melting ice
   
   And there he dies, no coin will he keep
   he had his becoming, and thus we must weep
   but not with sorrow, instead with joy
   he met deservedly his fate, no longer so coy
   the darlings shall live long, the bastards shall die
   for so it is ordered up there, right behind
   the doors to the halls of poetic justice
   
   - Roman Trend

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   leni sandsposted 13 years ago

   Poetic justice is about the old saying "What comes around goes around."
   
   Poetic justice is when a character plots to undermine another and then ends up caught in his own trap.

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