Best Shoot From The Hip Poems

(Apologies to any cowboys in Derbyshire)

The telegraph came through, but just in time
before my coach had passed the county line
mah girl wuz all alone and...

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Let'er rip my daddy alway says in reference to who busted the beans if you know what I mean
And speaking of wind to much seems...

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We Rulers Of This Earth

Homo-Sapiens we call ourselves, rulers of this Earth,
   Intelligent and civilized, but what is all this worth?

We're working hard...

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I look at you and wonder, I wonder if they know,
If they look beyond the show, the ponytail afro,
the tatts, the kicks, the cloud of...

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Let er rip.  -    Shoot from the hip. Write using the meaning of this expression.



They were strangers
Yet they felt completely 
Au...

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Fear of rejection can come to us all
Feeling alone like facing the wall
All the outside just staring in
If only they could see what is within...

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Glory to the Ukranian Freedom Fighters
 
Democracy and freedom are under attack
Beaurocracy and greed man,
Don’t let this war criminal come back
Putin is lootin’ the streets of...

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Don't Get Caught in the Looking Glass

I want to understand what it is that I see,
My goal is for truth and not what I want...

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easy access and proliferation of firearms,
     now begs a serious hard question
     presenting daunting task,
quite aware that...

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CHALLENGES
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


The Many Challenges, You Will Need to Conquer
Some Shallow, Others Deep, You Will Encounter 
Stop and Ponder, Seldom Shoot from the Hip
Hurried Decisions...

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I sip and I sip
As rhyme drips from my lips
I shoot from the hip
With inane useless quips

My pen is the arrow 
That points at the...

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Comes the serpent in splendid garments
Silky satins with purest white tatted laces
Most deceptive of all Satan’s devilish varmints
How we welcome his warm tender embraces,
Sometimes taking...

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Today is the day
So be happy and gay
It’s the springtime, so play
And appreciate May
What’s that you say?
You need some more pay?
Well, I’d love to stay
But...

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[For the uninitiated or for the inebriated
Or because I fear my story might be underrated
I feel I should advise you using any fact that fits
That...

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Inquiring of my grandparents to explain love,
Teasing grandpa said, "Togetherness alone pays."

I asked him, what's kept you together all these years?
"Tethers do not work, the...

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