Best Buckshot Poems

...The gun seems gun-shy in this space;
where deer hides hang on rustic walls
and granddad-tick-tocks beat, instead
of hearts in hollowed skins. The gun

 a “trophy-bagger” in its rack, 
 a loud-m......

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...Scarecrow Addict
           

Gritted and dusty
Powered by flack jacket eyes
Bootsteps through grey puddles
Flotilla of cigarette butts
Trash kicked aside
In a desert of litter
Seeking the s......

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...In a small gold rush town sipping on ale
Mark Twain once overheard a bartender
Made himself famous by penning this tale
A frog jump contest with a large wager
Decided outright when one frog didn'......

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...Brave man
                              buckshot
                              rear rump
                              hot lead
                              stings red
                         ......

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...<                             Once was a gal shopped all garage sales
                               Nuts ~ bolts ~ screws ~  all found in one big pail
                               Husband said h......

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...Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river
most of the m......

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...My biggest challenge of my life
occurred in 1998 a year of strife,
routine mammography displayed a buckshot 
spray of calcification which displayed a lot
of cancer within its maudlin picture show......

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...The weather was just how I liked it
Looking like it would stay dry
The breeze had the sharp tinge of winter
Beneath a low overcast sky

The thick blackthorn hedgerow behind me
Bordered the tang......

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...rattlesnake
slithering toward sunlight –
buckshot......

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...The wind blows in through the palms from the East Sea.
The turtle doves and humming birds scatter like buckshot 
As the cows approach. 

In the rafters above, a hundred mice and their charges, 
......

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...People laugh and make fun of me because I wear a coonskin cap.
But they'll stop laughing because I'm through taking their crap.
People say that my cap makes me look silly.
They say that it makes m......

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...I'll tell you this first, guns are my curse
I was dealt Ace's and watched all their faces
Looked around and called all in
Everyone folded, but Buckshot just grinned 

He moved up his stack, with......

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...I’m walking through another crowded room
wondering if people can sense the tremors behind my eyes. 
Fluttering wings of falling Angels full of hellfire buckshot. 
I’m seeping into the Berber carpe......

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...-for the 99%

The cock crows at first light.
Cracking the wind’s direction 
like wheat under the heavy plow 
waking our eyes as red as buckshot
defying the night, calling the day, signaling 
s......

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...“Santa Anna Wind”.   

                  © London F. Buss

  Don’t fear sadness, only shadows, 
  who come through walls,
  It's always now and always then.
  It's loneliness never ends, 
  e......

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