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Best Shootout Poems

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Premium Member Shootout, and That Wild Young Cowboy From Laramie
Shootout, And That Wild Young Cowboy From Laramie

Her heart said, I want a cowboy from Laramie
Six-gun shooting hombre to take sweet care of me
Tender lover...

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Categories: shootout, fate, repetition, word play,
Form: Rhyme



England Won a Penalty Shootout
Many years of dreaming and searching
Will this be the year we finally stop hurting? 
I can't believe these words are coming from my mouth 
I...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shootout, football, fun, funny, soccer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shootout On Main Street
A shootout on Main Street at high noon, Buck
Bring your rusty six-shooter -- lots of luck!
You’ll need it, you see,
When up against me
Nobody survives calling...

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Categories: shootout, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Execution of Paul Carter
My name is Paul Carter and I want to tell you my tragic story
About the wrong path I chose in life, that wasn't one of...

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Categories: shootout, america, dark, death, drink,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Kevin Barry
Irelands uprising in ninteen sixteen was crushed by the state
The ringleaders were arrested and death would be their fate
Charged with the crime of treason against...

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Categories: shootout, death, england, ireland, murder,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Fifa Women's Word Cup
Written: August 09, 20230
Fifa Women's World Cup 2023 Poetry Contest   Sponsored by: Mark Toney
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In the realm of soccer, where dreams bear flight,
A stage...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shootout, america, analogy, appreciation, soccer,
Form: Rhyme
Bravada
bare up to listen if you dare
to words of poets spoken so rare

within these words chosen with care
timeless messages encoded there

our hearts to the depths...

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Categories: shootout, allegorylife, words, life, poets,
Form: Couplet
Underdogs Have Their Days
Well, well, well!
The whole world knows by now, impossible dreams can come true,
In the game of professional soccer, it has just been proven at Leicester,
Starting...

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Categories: shootout, appreciation, community, encouraging, football,
Form: Free verse
A Gangster Comedy
Gangster
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Shooty shooty bang bang ####
Dark alley
" siete sulla mia terra ? .. 
* o ouais vous êtes une star .. bastard !
" andando a...

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Categories: shootout, conflict, confusion, french, giggle,
Form: ABC
Cowboy Luke and Horse Thief Pete
A shootout took place on a Texas street
Cowboy Luke, the rancher and horse thief, Pete
Sun was high overhead
Noon, a body lay dead
Pete's blood staining the...

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Categories: shootout, conflict, western,
Form: Limerick
Spirit of a Hero
Deep in the forest they walk in pairs,
Wearing uniforms guns in their hands,
They follow a family of jumbos engulfed,
In whispers as they follow the trails,
While...

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Categories: shootout, hero,
Form: Bio
Premium Member March of the Taunting Tercets
Sitting on a global seesaw
Play a universal keyboard
Show (don't TELL) discordant sounds

Kneel to Ultimate Disruption
Flood the zone with zoonosis
We've got your mess uncovered

O the weaponized...

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Categories: shootout, dark, humorous, society, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Your Heaven Is Cold Without Me
All these years, you risked your life endlessly,
Protecting me from the cold world effortlessly.
You relied on my promises,
Kept me clean in my dirty premises,
Like a...

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Categories: shootout, death, death of a
Form: Limerick
Morgan's Secret Recipe
In a little old town of 
Kentucky,
There's a legendary tale of 
Morgan's secret recipe.
It was the time of the Great 
Depression, 
A lighthouse shone out...

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Categories: shootout, absence
Form: ABC
Dialog Coach
I was having a dialog
with my inner shock collar
a present from my fairy godmother
who had trimmed the hedge
into leafy mammals with teeth
ready to protect the...

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Categories: shootout, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

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