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Best Sawed Off Poems

Below are the all-time best Sawed Off poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sawed off poems written by PoetrySoup members


Shell From Sawed-Off
I'm aware that
They'll dare me to surrender when my burner's unkindled
And the barrel is empty
Since their whiskey is missing
 
But it's in our blood and...

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© Criss Jami  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sawed off, adventure, art, cowboy-western, philosophy,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: sawed off, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Keefer, the Rabid Dingo
Once there was dingo, rabidly mad as he could be
who thought he was a Bruce of a man by how he spoke
But no man would...

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Categories: sawed off, character,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Oak Tree
The Old Oak Tree

For thirty-three years she’s been standing there,
With all her majestic beauty, without a care.
From a tiny seedling I had planted her,
The years...

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Categories: sawed off, nature, old, tree, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pointe Coupee Parish
The last living light
Twinkles in his dead eyes
Alive a moment ago but now gone
Someone should shut them
A stare so lonely
Into a place that only he...

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Categories: sawed off, culture, death,
Form: Free verse



I Can'T Stop the Bleeding
My daughter is dying and as I'm praying, I'm pleading.
She has been stabbed and I can't stop the bleeding.
An ambulance is on its way but...

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Categories: sawed off, boyfriend, dark, daughter, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Reina Rogan
The rebel who came to town
In search of inner peace 
She roams the American West
Specifically, the Texas Hill Country and South Plains
She keeps a journal...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sawed off, care, forgiveness, grief, how
Form: Free verse
Dreams Blown Away

They decry their gun birthright 
is to defend their home,
protect what they own
A government tank might come rolling
down the road one day
New Roman centurions coming...

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Categories: sawed off, death, political, truth, violence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Cold War
The war it's cold with no signs of any ending, it's like adding another twenty years to a life sentence, even in the heat of...

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© Corey Ross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sawed off, faith, war, life, war,
Form: Free verse
Mr Remington Goes To Therapy- Session One
I’m always loud. I was never really good at whispering 

I have a love/hate relationship with people and animals

I suffer from bulimia and my vomit...

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Categories: sawed off, death, society, violence,
Form: Personification
Wild Out
Lock me in solitary
And throw away the key
It ain't no different 
Then what I've already done to me
Already told you once 
You done got the...

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Categories: sawed off, anger, betrayal, crazy, dark,
Form: Rhyme
One Christmas Eve With Dyad
The young trees weren't agog with winter snow
As the leaves chose to wither than grow,
Wafting gently its autumnal crocus to the frozen ground,
While the night...

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Categories: sawed off, celebration, christmas, tree,
Form: Rhyme
These Dreams
Dreams don’t occur very often
When they materialize they are deep and terrifying
I can't stop these delusions
They just happen
Trying to forget
Hoping they will eventually fade away
Or...

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Categories: sawed off, age, child,
Form: I do not know?
Aphasia From a Broken Heart
I cannot show it. I have promised.
Building up in the shores of my thoughts and soul,
An overflowing ocean of emotions I'll risk,
To drown in my...

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Categories: sawed off, longing, lost love, love
Form: I do not know?
Things Gone Missing
There once was a flexible stripper
got her nipple caught in a zipper
the fabric flexed
but she was vexed
It got sawed off in the gripper

There once a...

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Categories: sawed off, nonsense,
Form: Limerick

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