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Best Handgun Poems

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


Premium Member Tattoo of a Broken Heart
It’s raining in the corner
Stripes upon the floor
Bloody knife in a barroom door
Drinking whiskey
From a hollowed out gourd
Full of wasps
That rage in my core
Old man...

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Categories: handgun, addiction, conflict, drink, lust,
Form: Free verse



Voices
Water trickles on her wrists
Wiping away the blood 
Wiping away the pain caused by so many others
The voices in her head are screaming for her...

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Categories: handgun, death, suicide,
Form: Free verse
A Fathers Love
She came to me this dark sad day, wanting to go but ordered to stay. Locked 
behind these cold metal bars. I long for the...

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Categories: handgun, devotion, imagination, uplifting, god,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member A Series of Unfortunate Darwin Awards
The Darwin Awards are a posthumous honor, recognizing those who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it by their own foolish...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, death, humorous, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Gray Queen
The Gray Queen
She sleeps in between
Dreams and awakening
She is always there
In the early morning light
In the deep darkness of night
She won’t cede her reign
Over the...

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Categories: handgun, suicide,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Satan Applauded
Hate infiltrated Orlando's Pulse club,
morphing into an instrument of death.
And innocent men died in pools of blood
as a madman's anger stole their last breath.

Armed with...

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Categories: handgun, anger, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Deep Indigo Mourning
My friend, how did he go so wrong?
Funny and jovial, was he, as happy as one can be.
Then, Paul shot his wife to death, mercilessly,...

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Categories: handgun, abuse, christmas, death, memory,
Form: Elegy
A Plot of Ground
When the moon is blocked by gray clouds,
A lone woman visits the graves,
She wears a black dress like a shroud.

She speaks, but her words are...

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Categories: handgun, death, funeral,
Form: Villanelle
The Last of the Funerals
“the last of the funerals”

today “the last of the funerals”
takes place &
the killings in CT get placed on the
shelf,
alongside the deaths at Columbine,
Virginia Tech...

those were...

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Categories: handgun, life, high school,
Form: Free verse
Bosom Buddies--Cont.
The drovers' hearts were beating fast
When our grueling drive was done.
They'd had their fill of dust and beans,
And the only thing they wanted now,
Was a...

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Categories: handgun, cowboy-western, death, friendship, history,
Form: I do not know?
Polemic: America, Land of the Dead
Every 16 hours a woman is shot
by her husband or boyfriend

One American is killed with a gun
every 15 minutes

Over 80 Americans are shot and killed...

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© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, miracle, missing,
Form: Verse
Concrete Lily
I ‘m stuck here were sometimes the sun never shines and my only relief is a drop of 
rain from time to time, I fear...

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Categories: handgun, hopeme, people, time, me,
Form: Lay
A Memorable Senior Moment
A Memorable Senior Moment

By Elton Camp

Old Mrs. Jones reached her car in the parking lot
Oh, but what an unwelcome surprise she then got
For two strange,...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, funny, car, men, old,
Form: Rhyme
Choice
Choice: the synonym of free will.
A crucial piece of the human puzzle.
If a human being was a handgun:
Choice would surely be it’s muzzle.
A machine has...

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Categories: handgun, encouraging, happiness,
Form: I do not know?
What Running Has Done For Me
I recognize they spot my back I undeniably do

Running keeps you in shape, when you’re stressing run, and my watch signals time to escape

When the...

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Categories: handgun, inspirational,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs