Best Shoots Poems

A
circle
on the pond-
then another
one-
one
after
the other-
merging into
a
ripple-
the surge
overflows the
dam-
a
flash flood
saturates
the yellowing
earth
and
subsides-
awakens
the comatose
seed...

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shoots a laser gun
at rows of quick aliens - -
they invade with ease

for Gwendolen’s Video Game Extravaganza contest...

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Photos taken
Are  precious and wholesome
View them, share them or simply keep them
Smiling and teary-eyed sometimes
But even smile and laughter exudes
As we preserve them
In any way we want, be it in albums
Or in CD’s, PC’s and camera chips
As these are sweet nothings
Priceless, likened to a cherished heirlooms
For a life time sake.
Single or group pictures
Photogenic or...

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The Moon shoots us angrily each night outing
her arrows come furiously in our direction
but only lands on us as shadow’s fingers
When I go out with my cutie in the forests
seeking for adventure foreign to hotel rooms
to hear whispers of nature in wilderness
and listen to  music sang by throats of forests
the Moon looks at us...

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when doubt hurt anger
rise between us
when the and in you and me
may change to versus

then love smiles first
and asks questions later...

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Hybrid seed planted on rocky ledge
Shallow shoots baring tomorrow's dreams
Sunny vistas lure fragile roots to the edge
Clouded visions hover distilled with availing streams
Prevailing winds scour surface, growing strains hedge
Cool, night air shivers; a paring frost rends fibrous seams
Blighting fears preen stalk but fealty's sustenance cannot dredge
Morn's warming rays on your fortified residual gleams...

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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 secret is frequent hugs."

In short, what do you credit your long marriage to?
"Tough love means you don't always say what you're thinking."

Interesting, Grandpa, how you shoot from the hip.
The ball's...

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She also dies
to be reborn in hallucination.

Her spouse’s corpse
is wrapped in a white dhoti.
		
She makes everything
safe within the walls, slamming 

the windows and doors.
Bacteria perform the post-funeral rites 

before the burial.
A smoldering Frankincense gulps down

the fetid smell.
She’s one among the multitude who 

can’t see *Mangalyaan
landing on the lap  of Mars.

No one can alter 
the...

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Not a soldier of war
MIA'S Caught up in a family of no one cares just drive by
MIA-Mother's Involvements Always cries
Raising infant, toddler, teenaged boys alone what for
Cousin Charlie sitting on the steps
Not even knowing it's soon to be his last breath
You better run
Drive, bye...
Coward points a gun
Run
Somebody
Dun got loose
Shot brother Bruce
Better run
Shoots his next victim
Run...

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Bamboo shoots


I am at peace in a land of dreams.
The creatures of nightmare may scream,
But I am serene in my bamboo garden.
Waterfalls, wooden instruments, whistle their winding calls
And all attune are the birds of Eden.


I have never found love in this place of pure Earth,
And rockeries, but no broccoli please.
I only need pretty flowers to...

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Gun owners indiscriminately brandish
loaded firearms toward innocent victims,
and concomitantly excite
purported in accordance
with first amendment, relish
yet proliferation allowing
free ranging banshee dervish
sans weapons of mass destruction
(mainly innocent lives)
inures citizens to appear off fish
U.S., and self-important
becoming comfortably numb
at regular headlines detailing
some lone a bit mish
hug ha, an automatic killer
methodically unloading with a swish
multitudinous cartridges attempt
to evening the score,...

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Men defend 
their mental status quo 
even through a mortal neglect.

But here, 
a rare deed 
emanates from a girl’s heart. 

She plucks 
the puppy
from the crow beaks that carve death. 

Resisting 
the pessimistic voices around,  
she tends to that stray animal hit by 

an auto rickshaw. 
Her virtue is buttressed 
by her brother and...

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T   R   A   I   L
B   L   A   Z   E
W   H   I   L   E
S   H   E   E   P
G   R   A...

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This epidemic re:
murderous love affair perfervid
with gruesome morbid
fixation allowing, enabling
and providing terrifying
trappings, whence went Pandora out the lid
anger loosed maniacally gun down
(in S-L-O-W mo) recorded by hid
madding crowd, each person
locked in crosshair grid
source (perhaps pathetic plan
premeditated) employing did
da ding from flying bullets,
a coterie upping the ante vis a vis bid
ding fare thee from odious
loading incendiary...

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Imagination's
        Innocence
 Tender shoots ~ Protect!...

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