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Best Bowie Knife Poems

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Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: bowie knife, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member The Alamo
An earthen gray memorial stands alone against
A rugged desert landscape, built by the mortal
Hands of the faithful.
No bells do ring, in the churches steeple, but...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bowie knife, america, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ho, Ho, Ho / a Redneck Xmas
‘Twas close to the day when Buba Claus,
His red nose and Bowie knife shining,
Would be off to fill the manly's hearths,
With bacon for their frying.

The...

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Categories: bowie knife, holiday
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Buba Claus
‘Twas close to the day when Buba Claus,
His red nose and Bowie knife shining,
Would be off to fill the manly's hearths,
With bacon for their frying.


The...

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Categories: bowie knife, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Ode To African Child
Oh! African child, the temple
A redient beauty of nature
Thou are the cradle capital
 Of humanity and creatures
The founder of patriarchal

Oh! African child,
The coy the toy...

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Categories: bowie knife, africa, baby, birth,
Form: Rhyme



Dearest Mother
When I was a mere half grown boy
There was one thing that brought me joy
Animals; silken and fleecy 
Like look much better lying still and...

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Categories: bowie knife, anger, crazy, death, horror,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Righteous Sunday
Bands of sunlight
Streamed through the curtains
Woke up to a glorious spring day
In Lowndes County Georgia 1918
Little Sara and Clint jumped in our bed
For morning hugs...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bowie knife, america, anger, christian, death,
Form: Free verse
Whitby 2012
The embers glow mysteriously as the breezes pass
In Whitby where the terraced houses fell on mass
Two new friends sit and chat about the devastating storms
And...

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Categories: bowie knife, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I'Ve Been Framed
My DNA was planted at a crime scene
in an apartment that I truthfully have never been.
My fingerprints were found on the murder weapon,
a Bowie knife...

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Categories: bowie knife, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Thesack
THESACK

Hell is where the heart is
Or used to be,
Or never was.
Torrent Dead Sea.
Splinter life from me
Separate, who says we are free?

One in the bush
two in...

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Categories: bowie knife, fire, life, lonely, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thank You Ma'Am - In Memoriam Queen Elizabeth Ii
In memoriam:  Queen Elizabeth II died on 8 September 2022. May she Rest in Peace.

Gracious and a constant all my life,
not bending to public...

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Categories: bowie knife, death, funeral, grief, in
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Red Neck Xmas ( For Robert D.)
‘Twas close to the day when Buba Claus,
His red nose and Bowie knife shining,
Would be off to fill the manly's hearths,
With bacon for their frying.

The...

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Categories: bowie knife, funny, holiday, imagination
Form: Rhyme
Johnny and the Wendigo, Part Ii
...Johnny just shrugged, took out his Bowie knife,
and started carving off meat for a meal.
He built a fire and roasted back-strap,
it tasted strangely like pork,...

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Categories: bowie knife, character, horror, humorous, lost,
Form: Narrative
Annulment
I began to stop seeing her
When she told me
About her Bowie knife collection
And her occasional bouts with P.M.S....

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© Cj Krieger  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bowie knife, life,
Form: Prose
The Behaviorist
I’m lost in a foreign country
But I’ve lived here all my life
Recently I came into money
I bought a tractor and a Bowie knife
Now I’m farming...

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Categories: bowie knife, angst, birth, drink, farm,
Form: Lyric

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