Shooting Poems | Examples

Premium Member Crap Shooting Boomboom

Crap shooing boomboom
Throws all his money away.
Wonders why he's poor.
Form: Senryu

Another Mass Shooting

Another Mass Shooting 
What's wrong with this country 
Put your arms around the cities 
Another horrific shooting 
Another historical tragedy 
Guns and bullets to destroy our lives 
Innocent children have to see this 
Our hearts goes out to the victims 
Another church shooting targeted 
With no morals 
No fear of judgment 
More bullets flying 
The world is burning  
Another unraveled town 
Someone has to pick up the pieces 
Violence will never end 
More flowers placed on the graves 
Look up to the Cross 
There’s no reason for this 
Leave all of this behind 
Another motive unwind 
No one deserves this 
Stand united with open arms 
Minneapolis Minnesota
Form: Rhyme


Aglow

You may missed it, but you are
incandescently alive; a shooting star
at dusk-colored sky. Falling

into the atmosphere, first contact of
fresh air. Friction
wears you armor in blazing flame, highlight—
In the star-sown space, you
a knight descending into this earth
on your loyal mount that is
you, and stardust from unnamed planets
that you once drifted among
aimlessly—until inevitably gravity
from this earth hooked 
you. Out of all lost asteroids—
You

Into this earth 
you fall, this earth you soar—in a sky shared 
with this new species called doves, you
fly your own sky, draw
a tail of wonderstruck dusts 
On trails no comets share, tremble—fear—
but keep chasing, by dint of
the white-hot oxygen that
ignites heartbeat at risk of explosion—

Know: in your motherland they speak
the tale of a young star
claiming his spark in new air.

Shooting Stars Are Exactly As You Are

Behind every person’s soul,
a universe quietly resides.
And I still find it strange
that despite that cosmic brilliance,
we circle back to fixate
on surface-level, fleeting things.
Things that could never touch
the depth of our own true radiance.

We never notice our own
beauty—isn’t that beautiful?

Premium Member strawberry moon

strawberry milk moon
dipped in dark chocolate sky
shooting star flies by
Form: Haiku


Premium Member A Shooting Star

A SHOOTING STAR

In quietness of night,
a fired star waving goodbye;
turning off its light:-
Form: Haiku

Premium Member shooting star hiku




                                      *
                               *     
                                   *       
                              *       
                      *       
                          *     a
                    *        s l o w
                      *    s p i r a l
                *    h u m    t h r e a d s
           *    t h r o u g h   b o n e
              *   o f   c o m e t    t a i l
                  *    t h e n   f a l l s
                *      i n t o  h u s h
             *                        
           *      
         *
     *
  *
***
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Form: Haiku

Premium Member Interview with a Shooting Star

I met a streak across the night, 
 a blaze of breath, a flash of flight. 
 A shooting star with silver flare 
 descended near, through whispered air. 

I asked, “You fall so fast and bright— 
 what secrets do you steal from night?” 
 It flickered once, then shaped a voice 
 as if my soul had been its choice. 

"I carry wishes, hopes unspoken, 
 tokens of hearts that remain broken. 
 Each trail I burn, a soul’s demand— 
 a silent prayer not made by hand." 

“Do you regret the paths you take, 
 so brief your flame, then you forsake 
 the sky, the stars, your cosmic kin— 
 for just one flash to spark within?” 

It laughed—a sound like chiming glass— 
 "Regret is for the ones who pass 
 through time without a burst or flare. 
 I live in sparks, I scorch the air." 

"You interview me as I fade, 
 but do you live the life you’ve made? 
 Or wait like dust in twilight’s seam, 
 hoping I’ll grant your dormant dream?" 

I tried to speak, but it was gone, 
 a sizzle swept the dark to dawn. 
 Yet in my chest, a burning scar— 
 left by the words of that bold star.
Form: Rhyme

Shooting stars

i only have one true wish to wish upon you,
I wish I could hold him in my arms as I look at you,
Shooting star,
I only have one true wish to wish upon you,
I wish he could hold me in his heart the way I hold you in mine.
Form: Lyric

Shooting Star

Attractive and luminous, 
Burning on your golden path 
Like an adamant against the sun.
Symbolising every entity,
Caught up in spontaneity 
Perusing the conscientious.
Uninspired to aspire
Yet inspiring the phenomenal,
As they claim all of what you grant.
During your death, they wield smiles
Making wishes of a lifetime
While you dance in cosmic time.

Premium Member Shooting Stars

He had found himself falling in love with a shooting star.
It was not too long until they had got so very far.
Sooner or later, their love burns into various shooting stars.
Form: Sijo

Shooting A Star

Shooting a star
It's a beauty and a crime
You ought to choose from.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Shooting Bottle Caps

Shooting bottle caps,
ring finger off thumb.
And a little cake -
the two breaks in half,
fixed with melting wax
and lighter.
Light years of 22
in impromptu breakfast party
then the boy is parting
for Tennessee,
to see to making a few bucks.
Toodeloos to Mom, Dad,
Aunts, Uncles, a random cousin
and a visitor. Who
can refuse to fuse together;
never knowing when
this grouping will reoccur?
Always a little drama, a smile,
too many hugs (we huddle).
Call me. I come. Gather
the troops as todays
don’t come around again,
only the memories; and
they fail to capture
the whole snapshot -
bottle caps bouncing
off familial walls.

Premium Member THANKFUL FOR SHOOTING STARS


Today I’m thankful for shooting stars…who prove quite effective
on helping us in life…keep a healthy and optimistic perspective…

For shooting stars all know…once from the sky the heavens free them….
only those of us looking up…will ever get to see them.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A shooting star

A tombstone is my thought,
I made my tomb out of thoughts
I knitted my shroud from hundreds of ideas
And out of sadness I finished my coffin.

I buried myself in the sunrise
When no one was outside
Just me, a small and insignificant creature
I was cooling my feet in death.

I wandering with the shadow of the spirit, the moon
I then stopped at each star
I wanted to forget the earth
For no one wept at my death.

I absolutely twinned with the Universe
To invent a new star together
In which we do not put thoughts,
And I will lie forever in it.
*
I involuntarily remembered the past
When I saw your face in stardust
And on the day when I was working a corner of a star
I decided to visit your land.

But moments had turned into hours
And the days turned into years,
And I had traveled thousands of years
When I got to see the earth again.
 
From above, from the sky full of stars
I sought to see your face again,
But because I didn't find you anymore
Out of grief, I threw myself into the sea.
Form: Lyric

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