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Best Sidearm Poems

Below are the all-time best Sidearm poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sidearm poems written by PoetrySoup members


Black Cloaked Man

In one ghost whisper of a town,
the mourning sunset had bloodshot eyes
A tombstone place that was
	long shadow 
past it’s boomtown prime
Withering eureka hope  ...

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Categories: sidearm, allegory, death, symbolism, violence,
Form: Epic



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...

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Categories: sidearm, anger, hate, truth, wisdom,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Stone Skimming
the sun threw a sidearm ray
that bounced off the surface many-times~
sank before making the bay


7-9-7 syllable count...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidearm, sun,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Have a Ball
Throw it, roll it,
  Bounce it, pass it
Dribble it, bobble it
  Kick it, toss it, miss it

Pitch it, hurl it
  Heave it,...

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Categories: sidearm, baseball, basketball, football, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Cap'N Save 'Em
He always got a Fantastic Four story to tell,
like how yesterday
        he Stretch saved 
all those people from...

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Categories: sidearm, allusion, hyperbole, parody, satire,
Form: Epic



Silence of the Lambs

Dueling Americans
love drawing blood from a distance
Crossing swords with their dogma guns ... 
a test of mettle:
Who will bow first
to the pressure building in their...

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Categories: sidearm, political, society, truth, violence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Let the Weak Say

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: 
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, 
and their spears into pruninghooks:...

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Categories: sidearm, judgement, religious, truth, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Short Walk
They marched me out 
Before dawns first light
The moon casting weak shadows, 
The stars in full flight
Across snow laid fresh 
Into field of gray
Not a...

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Categories: sidearm, war, me, me,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Skipping Stones
Looking for the perfect one, along the lake-front shore;
Mine resulted in ten quick skips, he wants his to skip one more.
I watched the mirror of...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidearm, father, son
Form: Rhyme
King of Dreams Subtitle Different War, Same Feelings
Upon a winged horse he flies
To spired castles in the skies
And there through star-lined halls he strides,
A fiery sword slung at his side.

The scabbard for...

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Categories: sidearm, angst, death, fantasy, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Run Away
Run Away

Ticket counter still open but
	no planes departing
Ticket plus dog scheduled for 7:10 AM
	(Twelve Hours to nowhere)

Bag packed with who knows what.
Sidearm.38 snub-nose holstered on...

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Categories: sidearm, absence, addiction,
Form: Prose Poetry
Volt Impurity

Ballot dolts
who got a gun love for the vote,
lift the sidearm
and affirm
their right to fire a bullet nope
Pulling the trigger lever
with lightning speed,
they choose to...

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Categories: sidearm, america, history, political, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Getting Deputized

Round up the posse,
get ‘em vetted Oval Office ganksterized
Appoint the piggy snouts,
then send ‘em out
with metal sidearm power
Ancient oppression done got modernized,
old Egypt Memphis is...

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Categories: sidearm, allusion, corruption, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Majority
With a closed mouth  (—) 
they murmur   their cheeky disapproval
	Issuing mute complaints
through raised palms,  
which are open to  () ...

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Categories: sidearm, allegory, symbolism, truth, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
The Past I Never Had
“love and darkness and my sidearm”

This line reminds me of youthful rebelliousness
Of summer nights, out with good friends
Driving along, in a car together
Feeling as if...

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Categories: sidearm, adventure, fantasy, friendship, happiness
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs