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Best Over A Barrel Poems

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Be Gone , Do Not Look Me In the Eyes
Be gone..
Do not look me in the eyes 

We were not belongers
But,Intruders 
who happened to trespass 
into each other's  lives 

We were no Romeo...

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Categories: over a barrel, absence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Hunt the Bugaboo
With the morning crisp and frosty
    and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
   ...

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Categories: over a barrel, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Poet Destroyer
"The Ballad of The Poet Destroyer"

Destroyer, and creator of words
Flying high on the wings of a bird
Drowning every inch, by foes and friends
Where has she...

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Categories: over a barrel, absence, courage, me, missing
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member An Insignificant Life - Collaboration With the Seeker
That godless sound
His head explodes at 6:01am
Same as every day
He falls out of bed
Steps on the cat
Slides into his slippers
Shuffles to the kitchen
Puts the coffee...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: over a barrel, absence, break up, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Small Stain of Blood
an early morning rise,
up the stairs
walk into the bathroom 
in the sink
a small stain of blood.

less than a measure of yesterday 
pulling a baby out...

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Categories: over a barrel, child, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cutting My Losses
Atmospheric grayscale mirrors my mood
where rainbow pastels are loath to intrude,
monochrome perverse looms ‘cross universe -

black powder train, mind is gun barrel gray
cold dispassionate muzzle...

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Categories: over a barrel, anxiety, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Knock Knock
Knock, knock who's there in my bathroom?
Jan the princess of posterior interior transfer

Knock, knock who's there not in my hot tub?
Cheryl the magnificent moonlight moon...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: over a barrel, funny, poets, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Within the Blue
in your arms, i feel as though
the sun will never set, 
i am the blushed morning rise
that doesn't rise alone,
i feel you rising as well.

sometimes...

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Categories: over a barrel, absence, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Polka Dottie
Polka Dottie

When the up-tempo “Beer Barrel Polka” began
I grabbed sweet John’s arm, curtsied to my man

The Polish side of my family hit the floor
While my...

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Categories: over a barrel, humor, wedding,
Form: Couplet
Ins and Outs
This is what life’s all about:
We barrel in and totter out.

Along the way, we smile or pout
And try our best to conquer doubt.

We may be...

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Categories: over a barrel, life,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Winter Bird
I was a valued, vaunted veterinarian, maintaining health for animals I loved,
As a rainbow sparkled rich colors, from the moment peach sunshine shoved.

I was dedicated...

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Categories: over a barrel, bird, fantasy, friend, home,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Bobcat Moon
She sits on the porch in a cool desert night
A bobcat stalks prey in the day's fading light
The moon looks like a big orange in...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: over a barrel, autumn, friendship, loss, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Pirates Life For Me- For Contest
Here we are in 1650, which is ten minutes to five
swing the wheel to the West, which is left,
put your sun cream away, man the...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: over a barrel, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Mark Twain Sausage Analogy
**“Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.” – 
American Humorist/Author Mark Twain (real name Samuel Clemens) 



Prestigious lawmaking bodies...

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Categories: over a barrel, funny
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Roulette
ROULETTE

My twisted mind
Had everyone blind
No symptoms
Not a single sign!
 
I want to forget everything,
Living a life of no regrets,
Facing the sun
Ignoring my debts
Wiping of the...

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Categories: over a barrel, death, epic
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things