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Best Crossbow Poems

Below are the all-time best Crossbow poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of crossbow poems written by PoetrySoup members


This Clerihew's For You
Don't cross swords with A Poet Destroyer,
pretentious jousts really do annoy her
Her weapon of choice: a crossbow or a saber
she'll Cupid your mind, turn your...

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Categories: crossbow, appreciation, dedication, humorous,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member It's Just a Game
These Limericks were written after playing a card game called Poo Pocalypse... don't ask or I'll blame it on Jan...lol


History recorded leaders in wars
Great men...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crossbow, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Horse-A Horse: My Kingdom For a Horse
A horse!  A horse!  My kingdom for a horse!

Wast penned by The Bard of Avon of course!

Richard's steed Surrey lay dead

Slain by a...

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Categories: crossbow, horse, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Fox In the Hen House
Fox in the hen house.


There is a farmer, a good man, his name is Jahn. 
He raises livestock chickens, pigs, cows of all sorts and...

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Categories: crossbow, character, god, humanity, meaningful,
Form: Personification
The Ex Soldier, An Allegory
The ex Soldier An Allegory


A foul furtive fellow,

came a knocking at Joe's door,

what doth thou want,

thou craven knave,

Speak up else I put thee in thy...

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Categories: crossbow, allegory, allusion, soldier,
Form: Verse



The Maid of New Orleans
The Maid of New Orleans


A teenage cow girl who couldn’t write
Was told by God to front the fight
the hundred Year War against the French
And cut...

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Categories: crossbow, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Goose Chase
Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,

sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evoke outer limits
of twilight zone

prompting...

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Categories: crossbow, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Smitten With You
Have I ever told you?
I was smitten with you then 
when we first met.
A quiver ran down my body
by your single look.
Your fine archery
couldn't have...

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Categories: crossbow, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Cupid Sniper
With accurate placement
aim and precision
take your pick
an advanced weapon system
a marksman
staring down
keeps his eye 
on the target
judging distance
will take his shot

The ultimate assassin
for two lovers...

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Categories: crossbow, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Driven
The keys rattled gently in his pocket.
Gradual jumps like the ocean,
Peaking with every heart
Or every step.
The music was in sleep
Allowing silence for thought
To contemplate on...

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Categories: crossbow, adventure, age, autumn, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stained Glass Scarlet
Stained Glass Scarlet, Scarlet Fasinera  . . .  a fictional character
          a vigilante haunting...

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Categories: crossbow, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Evensong
I can't
Now that that name 
Has dominated my life,
An evensong with
Everlasting lyric
That at times when I may
Be still
I can recite through memory.
It is yet still...

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Categories: crossbow, love, nostalgia, may,
Form: Free verse
Life and Death In the Ladies League
Twas the night of the Ladies League Final and the atmosphere was tense
Only two teams were competing, no loyalties allowed on the fence
There could only...

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Categories: crossbow, funnywoman,
Form: Couplet
Hansel and Gretel's Surprise
Here's the story of Hansel and Gretel
But, again, not like they said
Their's was way too humdrum
So, here's my version, instead

First, their father wasn't a woodcutter
He...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crossbow, funnytime, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Cuspids Gun
If Cupid has an arrow let him put it's down and reach for a gun to slay me like prey let him have an iron...

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Categories: crossbow, angel, beautiful, break up,
Form: Blitz

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