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Best Showdown Poems

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Premium Member Showdown At Soup Creek
It was now growing dark as the sun was going down
When a stranger rode into Soup Creek, a frontier town
No one could see his face,...

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Categories: showdown, america, humor, sun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Showdown
The Lilliputians are out playing ball
   Enjoying the fresh air of late Fall
When storm clouds roll in
   Hulking Gullivers, wearing wide...

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Categories: showdown, anti bullying, basketball, bullying,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Showdown
'Twas an ominous moment when rode into town
To its marshal defy and outdraw and gun down
A notorious, murderous varmint named Slade 
Who had widows and...

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Categories: showdown, adventure, history, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The Conclusion
It was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The...

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Categories: showdown, america, death, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fifteen Fabulous Felines Pet
A cacophony of cats in my life.
Not one or two, but fifteen!
Each,who along with joy,
brought sadness and strife!
All shapes and sizes with grand
and most loving...

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Categories: showdown, cat, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Clocks Ticking To Politicking
(Read later stanzas for more of the humour part ; parody of politics)

I Can't think well of a democracy
if nepotism and false promises
are part and...

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Categories: showdown, international, parody, political,
Form: Rhyme
Ethereal
a single drop
escapes and shapes
the one reforms into the many
forces merge and maintain the center
as an ocean to a clear running stream
effortless delicate movements
the beautiful...

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Categories: showdown, appreciation, beauty, creation, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
To Believe Or Not To Believe: the Power of Unbelief
your belief system is the major indication
of what you can accomplish with positive validation
if you can see it, you can achieve
if you can perceive it,...

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Categories: showdown, inspirational, life, philosophy, god,
Form: Ode
All Regrets
All regrets, in every backward flashback
leave bitter tastes like remorseful morsels
  left drowning in your tear welled eyes
    each day was...

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Categories: showdown, angst, forgiveness, introspection
Form: Free verse
Starless Night: the Art of Giving (Rhyme Incorporated) Part 2
Thinking of O, Ms. Jill Martin was in her solitude “Quietly…breathing”
That, she just waved her hand greeting April Lewis “Without Speaking”
I spied humorist Donald Meikle,...

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Categories: showdown, art, friendship, funny, on
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Purr, No Chance To Dream
The worst of the bright-cracks have passed.
The tumultiest of the bucketiest of the rains have proved not to last.
The cat has chirp-purred his way into...

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Categories: showdown, cat, morning, rain, storm,
Form: Free verse
A Cowpoke and His Beer
I was in the saloon to beat the heat
To have a few beers and rest my feet
I removed my hat a took a seat
Just then...

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Categories: showdown, anger, conflict, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Great Evening Meal
Birds in midheaven flying all around
Soaring high then gliding down
Gazing with hunger upon the town
Instinctively knowing up from down
Observing unbridled spiritual breakdown

White horse and rider...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: showdown, bible, bird, christian, judgement,
Form: Monorhyme
Cats and Hats
my attempt at a simplistic limerick suite
thank you


"cats and hats"

I once went to the beach with hats
and noticed in the back seat were my cats
I...

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© Lisa Ricci  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: showdown, cat, fun, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Lucifer Gets the Gig
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.” 
Anatole France

"I heard you wanted to see me Boss?", Lucifer...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: showdown, heaven, satire, universe,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs