Best Cannon Poems
Cannon Lee
The ocean shatters on the banks of my despair
where I stand above the cliffs in mournful yearning there,
amid the thunder and the lightning
that cracks the black of night
I curse the rocks below that took his precious life.
Oh Cannon Lee, Oh Cannon Lee!
my merman of the sea,
so beautiful a creature the world has never...
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Categories:
cannon,
Form:
Epyllion
T. C. Cannon Self Portrait
A man with a creative dream
On an arid afternoon
Admiring God's creation
Relaxing in the sunlight
With his cowboy hat
Giving him a little shade
Watching the cumulus clouds
Shading the desert wasteland
Captured all by the artistic eyes
Of a man named T. C. Cannon
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Categories:
cannon, art, native american, nature
Form:
Free verse
Cannon Lee - Re-Posted For Reference
The ocean shatters on the banks of my despair
where I stand above the cliffs in mournful yearning there,
amid the thunder and the lightning
that cracks the black of night
I curse the rocks below that took his precious life.
Oh Cannon Lee, Oh Cannon Lee!
my merman of the sea,
so beautiful a creature the world has never seen.
To gaze...
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Categories:
cannon, imagination, lost love,
Form:
Epyllion
There's a Bloke In This Museum Dressed As a Cannonball
the kids are going nuts
one almost keeled over
one inquires about the whereabouts
of the large-caliber pipe pistol
one gives the spheroid
a handshake and hug
the arm like an tartarean
eclipse with a surreptitious
star-nosed mourning
mole on the end of it
one gives the projectile
a high five, invented by a
basketball player with
four fingers
but what about him?
who is he under the
cycloidal...
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Categories:
cannon, humor, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Loose Cannon
At times I'm a loose cannon
The difference is I use pens while you use handguns
I spray in every direction but I try to be careful with who I hit
When you fire that much at once, you're due to miss
Trying to solve the puzzle but there's no clue with it
I'll find my way through eventually...
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Categories:
cannon, anger, celebrity, courage, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Tubing On the Cannon
Echoed giggles remain hysterical in Spring
Abundant greenery grows tall along the river
Both sides of the banks merge their foliage
Connecting branches together overhead
Trees become an arching canopy above it all
Creating shade for children paddling on
Now bouncing on the Cannon traveling down
On inner tubes absconded from some ugly trucks
Filled with air...
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Categories:
cannon, adventure, appreciation, children, river,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
cannon, flower,
Form:
Haiku
The Cannon
A gaping hole
It’s dark and lonely
A soft wind dances through the deep cannon
Things here feel sad and empty
And the light is far away and unseen
It’s cold
There is nothing
And this cannon
it lives right in the very depths of my very being
Mocking me
Making a joke out of...
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Categories:
cannon, betrayal, boyfriend, dark, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Cannon On the Court House Lawn
It rests 'neath spreading sycamores on the small-town square,
A venerable old relic of the Civil War affair.
The sun casts a fleeting glint as it rises anew each dawn,
On the brass barrel of the cannon on the court house lawn.
Oft' on languid summer days I like to pause and muse,
About its past and the brave men...
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Categories:
cannon, historyold, children, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Eleanor Cannon
In time, in time, always in time
The prophets always say
There is no time in heaven
It just gets in the way
Perhaps the madness of my life
Has seeped inside my mind
Perhaps the sadness of my heart
Has reaped the poorest kind
For chains and locks are what they gave
To middin folk as me
And others hang from castle wall
Or from...
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Categories:
cannon, crush, girl, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Out of a Cannon
Like being shot out of a cannon,
I charged out of bed,
Took one look around me,
My spirits, they bled,
Jumped back into bed,
Hoping to sleep,
Another twenty-four years,
Before out of bed I again leap....
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Categories:
cannon, confusion, depression, funny, health,
Form:
Free verse
The Whisper of the Cannon
When all the words a king may say
Lay lifeless on the ground
And windstorms blow them far away
With not a single sound.
Then no one any worry pays
As acquiescence he seeks
But ears awake and eyebrows raise
When e'er the cannon speaks.
She speaks to warriors from the east
And armies from the south.
And words of wisdom should, at least,
Fall tumbling...
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Categories:
cannon, conflict, military, power, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Human Cannon
Human cannon
They shot him out of a cannon and lost his legs
He flew low over a forest that took his arms
And torso, his head landed in a hexes’ glade
From trees dripped gore like strawberry jam
They flew up with their brooms collected what
Was left of him and made a stew, and he
Thought what...
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Categories:
cannon, family, fantasy, fashion, fate,
Form:
Blank verse
In Memory of Cannon Hinnant
Little five year old boy
Just riding his bike
When a man came along
And cruelly ended his life
The boy was sweet
And gentle as can be
How could anyone take a life
With such Animosity?
He had his whole life ahead of him
And it was sadly cut short
His beautiful smile, his laugh
Are no more
I hope there is justice
For this poor...
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Categories:
cannon, child, emotions, goodbye, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
A Question of Cannon Fodder
A Question of Cannon Fodder
Drenched in the blood
Wept in raining puddles of agony
The wretched and forgotten
Mud of centuries
He fell by knees and palms
Dead to the feet of living
A Splashing tattoo of scarlet drumming
On the futile embrace
Of histories life spent warring
Driven by battle
Riffle, bomb, bow, lance, cannon, arrow and missile
And to thunderous skies
Where blasted shell...
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Categories:
cannon, war
Form:
Free verse