Best Cumbersome Poems

Let us make promises to one another,
with waiting touch to be made. A man

can never be certain of the silence if the
silence is impossible to touch. Floods may

come and floods may go; either way the
trees will grow much as always. Eyes may

travel from left to...

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musket
predecessor to the rifle
named for mousquette or sparrow hawk
smoothbore long-barreled firearm
cumbersome, heavy to lift

musket
used by infantrymen
during the War Between the States
Sometimes referred to as the Civil War
Or Sherman and Lee's war

musket
heavy to lift,
large-caliber, clumsy,
muzzle loading
shoulder gun
musket...

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You're meaningful to me with glee
You're perfectly precious and free
I'm hiding in the shadow of the sun
You saved me from the devil's gun

It's a cumbersome life that I'm living
It's a cumbersome world worth giving
My eyes are as cold as ice to aqua 
My silver soul...

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