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Best Gunning For Poems

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Premium Member Massacred Nation
The year 1890
December 29th
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
My tribe lost their lives

The USS 7th
On their orders so
To round up the Sioux
Railroad herd them and go

Us Lakota...

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Categories: gunning for, native american, war, cousin,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fear the Walking Dead
Fear The Walking Dead

Moaning groaning growling too
they stumble in the night.
Looking for someone like you
so they can grab a bite.

Bumping up against the door
and peeking...

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Categories: gunning for, fear,
Form: Rhyme
The Huntress
Biding her time, stalking her prey;
Knowing that far he can not stray
The huntress has readied her bow
And just waits for his heart to show

She’s set...

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Categories: gunning for, betrayal, break up, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Ruminations
Don’t call Moses a liar he was much more than that
There are no sands of time just time and sand
(and not enough of either in...

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Categories: gunning for, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cinderella What Now
CINDERELLA WHAT NOW

I’ve often seen you zoom past Mars,
Blonde hair flowing and blowing
In the breeze of the milky way,
And its trillions of stars.
I so longed...

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Categories: gunning for, planet,
Form: Free verse



Unseen Dimensions
second terra,masters of the nether world,
black is their art,as crafty smoke curls
behind a screen,landscaping scenes,amazing,
chemical elements influence our being
projecting images,manipulating thoughts
misguided perceptions easily bought
subliminal messages,chaotic...

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Categories: gunning for, allegory, imagination, life, evil,
Form: I do not know?
Not Kneeling
From neglect comes deviation, electrifying radiation, like a leaf in the shadow,
Drying stanza so bore-some, a bit much candidly said,
In the Sun thinly it is...

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Categories: gunning for, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Cowgirl Up
Subdue my senses like serenities face
a heartfelt happy embellished
his canter skilled with heavens grace
a companionship barley unblemished

except that she rides alone

Into the storm gathering speed
she...

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Categories: gunning for, courage, cry, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
He Never Loved Me
He never loved me
Well damn I just found out
Took a shot to the heart
Don't know where I should start
I guess I musta been strung out
Cuz...

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Categories: gunning for, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Cowboy Heaven
John Wayne will be there 
and the steaks will be rare,
in Cowboy Heaven;
And the Posse will be – not  gunning for me 
- in...

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Categories: gunning for, song,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Brodmann Area 4
The debate between free will and fate has taken a hard right
turn to neuroscience, Brodmann area 4 the primary motor
cortex of the brain located in...

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Categories: gunning for, children, death, games, lost,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Control the Skies
heat of the battle
dog fighters command the sky
top gunning air force


© Joseph S. Spence, Sr., (Epulaeryu Master) 1/22/08
All Rights Reserved, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Senior Advisor, to...

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Categories: gunning for, adventure, history, hope, life,
Form: Senryu
Kudos To Barack Obama
yea tis history - that end gin shelled a mesh by mit Romney wailin
such below figurative belt mortar attack subterfuge and constant railin
 per accusations...

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Categories: gunning for, black african american, courage,
Form: Elegy
An Expendable Right-Hander
The Mets figured they already had a pitching ace.
They badly needed a competent man to play third base.
A righty and a lefty were considered better...

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Categories: gunning for, baseball, history,
Form: Rhyme
Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To Rome
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. 

"I'm...

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Categories: gunning for, marriage,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs