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Best Shoot Down Poems

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Telly the Trendsetter
:)           

What kids are watching on telly
are crimes and crimes in all variety! 

Crimes of...

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Categories: shoot down, addiction, film, youth,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Finn, Me and Mcgee
Me un Finn came  'round

In what did we found

The Pub, wid a very large lock

Aye keep the key where no one cann see

Said our...

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Categories: shoot down, ireland,
Form: Ballad
Last Breath
I will shoot down the stars,

Watch their blood spill across plains,

Choking and gasping for their last breath,

Before their glow fades away,

Into the darkness of my...

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© Julia Ho  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shoot down, dark, deep, evil, good
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Life Is Short
I bet heaven is so beautiful,
It has to be glorious and bright.
Imagine, angels singing lovely songs
They sing to Jesus who sitting on His throne.

No light...

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Categories: shoot down, faith, religion, light, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Fly-Boys
World War I gave us the fly-boys
Who flew by the seat of their pants.
Many would never return from war
While others survived by chance.

Their planes were...

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© Tom Zart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shoot down, adventure, death, history, inspirational,
Form: ABC



Premium Member Cowards Not Terrorists
Cowards, not terrorists, Call them what they are
Not Martyrs, killers of babies, children both near and far
Cowards, not terrorists, Call them what they are

How much...

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Categories: shoot down, violence,
Form: Free verse
Stephanie Slater
A Games Maker at London’s Paralympics 2012, 
Stephanie used to be a competitor able-bodied, 
In the Great Britain team, mind on the Olympics, 
Even tho’...

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Categories: shoot down, sports, strength, water,
Form: Blank verse
The Wasteland -Part 2-
A long time passes and I am still here
Silently insulting, brutally weeping
But then I lift my head from the ground
To see him standing there
Towering over...

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Categories: shoot down, adventure, allegory, angst, art,
Form: Free verse
Oh, Sweet
So innocent looking,
I wear your heart
On my bracies.

For the town to see and to know,
You could have been mine,
If I wanted.

You could have been here.
If...

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Categories: shoot down, love, passion, sad, teen
Form: I do not know?
Revolt
Revolt in a see of blood oh mourner and cast your voice away, the regime will shoot at you
today and corpses will roll.  Protest...

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Categories: shoot down, death, funeral, places, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Frustration
Frustration
By
Lionel Derbyshire

Convinced this is the poem
I dont want found
When a had been life
Is like a selection
Of random carrion.
At first by birth
I heard echo's
Of sweet expectations
A...

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Categories: shoot down, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Addicted To Doom
Doomed from the moment the sun came up, 
My black cloud rolled down from the hill.
The cliff in my mind didn’t care for this cloud,...

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Categories: shoot down, addiction, psychological,
Form: Quatrain
Hi
hi its james  christian this is my acount they shoot down my other one...

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Categories: shoot down, life
Form: I do not know?
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Underneath the starlit night I journey on this desert plain 
with each step the sand gets deeper, longer, and sharper—
The Pain.

This land continuously brakes possibly...

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Categories: shoot down, hope, love,
Form: I do not know?
We Need Better Monsters, Part I
It was quite a surprise to us
when monsters came out of the night,
the beasts and bad guys of legends
who for so long gave us a...

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Categories: shoot down, abuse, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs