Best Shotgun Poems
Shotgun Lullaby
They promised to never leave each other, never say goodbye,
Even when their hands parted, and they went their ways.
He never knew until it was too late, it was too late to say farewell,
He would simply have to cope with the empty home, the lonely days.
Drinking away his time, there was nothing more to do...
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Categories:
shotgun, absence, anger, angst, death,
Form:
Free verse
I Rode Shotgun
I rode shotgun
with someone
who look just like me
Had the same skin color
as far as I
could steering wheel see
I rode shotgun
with a racist someone,
who hatefully
talked the same way as me
Had the same gnarled speech,
same gnarly hands,
same ugly voice,
same cursive feet
like the carpal in the passenger seat
I rode darkie mind shotgun
with...
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Categories:
shotgun, anger, hate, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Bio
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent."
Marilyn Monroe
"Blue Shotgun Lantana"...
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Categories:
shotgun, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Shotgun Annie
We would go to the forgotten towns of west Texas
Places that we couldn’t name and hunt for their souls
Sometime it was on the roadside a place they had been abandoned
Sometimes in and old house broken and forgotten
She’d stand there in her boots and ragged old skirt and start to sing
A lonesome strain of an old...
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Categories:
shotgun, bereavement, death, sad, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Shotgun Wedding
Pa held shotgun to his head
"Marry her son or you're dead"
"It wasn't me" the lad pled
"Yes it was" she said
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved
Placed No. 2 in John Freeman's " Love or Humor"...
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Categories:
shotgun, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form:
Dodoitsu
Shotgun
When I was a kid, in the family car
We all knew where to sit;
If the order ever wavered,
Someone’d likely have a fit.
But today I heard of something new
Which tells me things have changed;
If someone hollers, “Shotgun!”
Well, the seats get rearranged.
The “Shotgun!” yeller sits up front,
Right by the driver’s side,
A better view, perhaps, and thus
A more...
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Categories:
shotgun, car, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Is a Shotgun
Bang...Bang...
Not the gun
sounds of hearts
engaged in battle
not having fun
Shells litter the ground
love is a hidden treasure
packed with ammunition
better off not found
Love is war
relationship gunfight
loaded with fools
smoking barrels
blinded eyesight
Love is never done
Love bleeds loud
Love will run
Love will kill
Love is a shotgun...
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Categories:
shotgun, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, love, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Gonna Chase Those Blues Away, To the Tune 'shotgun Blues'
I got worries on my mind,
And the blues weigh down my soul,
I got worries on my mind,
And the blues weigh down my soul,
Gonna chase those blues away,
Try to make myself feel whole.
Gonna forget my troubles
And hold my head high
Shrug off my demons,
The Lord knows that I’ll try,
The blues is heavy,
And it’s weighing down my soul,
I'm...
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Categories:
shotgun, angst, philosophy, recovery from...,
Form:
Lyric
Riding Shotgun
Speeding down the highway
I lament my life so far
and meanwhile Death is gleeful,
riding shotgun in my car.
So I crank up the volume,
speakers thrumming bass guitar,
but Death just seems to dig it,
riding shotgun in my car.
One child is an addict
and the other lives too far,
as Death adjusts the seat-back,
riding shotgun in my car.
My husband's soul is...
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Categories:
shotgun, allegory, angst, deathdeath, death,
Form:
Rhyme
An Old Vintage Shotgun of Mine
A loaded pistol,
With youthful courage till yesteryear;
Now lies naked and dormant,
And Is found to be lifeless and dead.
Somewhere, buried in my Junkyard,
Playfully tested till now in all arms to shame;
As it shyly, blushes and whispers to admit,
Murmuring its helplessness into my ears.
Ooh! My Childhood friend,
It feels like an impotent;
To be so bullet-less today.
My Golden days...
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Categories:
shotgun, age, childhood, emotions, missing,
Form:
Light Verse
Shotgun Wedding
(This is a fictional poem)
I stand here with a shotgun pointed at my head.
If I don't marry this man's daughter, I'm as good as dead.
His daughter is pregnant and somehow he thinks I'm the dad.
I've tried to tell him that I'm not but he won't listen because he's so mad.
He's just itching to pull the...
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Categories:
shotgun, daughter, wedding, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Riding Shotgun
The addict rests in the darkness
Comfortable in his skin
Knowing
Does not doubt his actions
Moves forward swiftly
Alone
Bottle and stash by his side
Chaos as his neighbour
Top down
Cruising
Upon awakening its us
Who needs to pick
ourselves up
wonder
where we have been
Where's the money I had
Who's that lying in my bed
With shame as our witness
Our mouths stinking of...
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Categories:
shotgun, god, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Shotgun Wedding Blues
we’re ready are you
wonder if it’s mine at all
do you take ~ i guess...
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Categories:
shotgun, allegory, allusion, baby, marriage,
Form:
Senryu
Shotgun Wedding
Miss Wild
With child
Not wed
To Ted
Dad mad
You cad!
Loads gun
Says, son
Wed her
You cur
If not
Buckshot
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired...
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Categories:
shotgun, humorous,
Form:
Footle
Bring Back Shotgun Weddings
Who cares if unwanted children
Abound all over this earth?
Someone else can feed them
Until they have proven their worth!
Of course we shall disgrace them
Until they learn their place
Somewhat less than human and
Completely devoid of Grace!
Pro-lifers must believe their God
Is an old, incompetent fool
Who simply can't remember
What they learned in Sunday School.
Freedom of Choice is an issue
Pro-lifers...
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Categories:
shotgun, abortion, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Verse