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Shooting Star Outgunned
SHOOTING STAR   OUTGUNNED


A  single rocky  space  ship,
A sizzling visitor,
Flashed in our pan,
Dashed in and ran.

A fleeting meteor,
Meeting our fleet of...

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Categories: outgunned, assonance, stars,
Form: Rhyme



Pointless Fighting Power When You Are Clearly Outgunned
Fair warning to you

My fellow brethren

As justified as your cause 

May well indeed be

If you wish to take

The powers that be on

And state your case

Not...

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Categories: outgunned, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Michael Collins
It has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron...

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Categories: outgunned, england, ireland, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
The Voice of My Ancestors
Every morning
When I glance into the mirror
I look deep inside
Deeper than my subtly-thinning hair
Deeper than my raven beard
Deeper than my mocha complexion
Laden with marks
Of life's...

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© Lord Bard  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outgunned, america, black african american,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Don'T Forget Ukraine
For over three long months , the war has been raging
Against the Russians, the Ukrainian army are engaging
You can't help but admire them, for putting...

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Categories: outgunned, war,
Form: Rhyme



Yarra Was An Old Sloop In 1941
YARRA was an old Sloop

Yarra was an old ship in 1941...........about a 10 year old Sloop
She was a small Destroyer with three 4 inch guns...
So...

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Categories: outgunned, warold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Tennysons Revenge
Tennyson's Revenge

Unknown bumbling stumbling reading,
Of an old poem, its story older stored,
About the 'Revenge' of English men
Who died keeping Spain from our shores.

Sir Richards blazing...

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Categories: outgunned, conflict, courage, england, hero,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slam
Wham bam 
thank you ma’am.
This is a slam 
and slam I am.
First and formost
I DON’T like your name.
I live in Pee Dee.
How can I slam...

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Categories: outgunned, funnyslam, slam,
Form: Free verse
A Bad, Bad Dream
In the far off distance the cannons make their report,
As we huddle in groups to show our support.

Blindly attacked, all we can do is to...

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Categories: outgunned, confusion, death, dedication, imagination,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Hunched Backed Mobster
A HUNCHED BACKED MOBSTER

It’s sunset in late afternoon, where towards a water pan,
A pride of lionesses, approach with a much rehearsed plan,
Followed by a clan...

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Categories: outgunned, animal,
Form: Limerick
Six Men Dead - Part 3
© 2011 (by Jim Sularz)
(The true story of Frank Eaton – AKA “Pistol Pete”)


At nearly twenty-one, Pete knew he may have out-run,
his luck as the...

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© Jim Sularz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outgunned, history,
Form: Ballad
No Fear
When your heart
is being torn asunder
and completely
being ripped to shreds;
when your spirit's 
being crushed 
by that heavy, 
heavyweight,
"DO NOT COWER!!!"....
and...."DO NOT DREAD!!!"

When you're standing
"TOE TO...

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Categories: outgunned, courage, destiny, inspiration, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Goebbel Voices

In the lush beer gardens of New Berlin,
fräulein Democracy dalmatian died
giving birth to a litter of surrogate lies

Fourth Reich Vandals with mongrel desires,
now on a...

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Categories: outgunned, evil, history, holocaust, wisdom,
Form: Tristich
Recovering
Outgunned by life,you escape 
to epipheny. The inner- 

voice had betrayed. Are you
ready to meet the believer ?

Sad ending of mithridatism- 
in the wake of...

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Categories: outgunned, art,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Are We Too Late - America's Plight
How did we get to where we are,
America - the one undimming shining star,
A land of freedom, of unbounded pride
Where no one needed run and...

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Categories: outgunned, addiction, anger, drug, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs