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Both Barrels Poems - Poems about Both Barrels

Premium Member When It Comes
... When it comes at you both barrels In waves to devastate. When I face too many perils... And my help... It comes too late. When every fix is causing problems... That before were not there. ......

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Categories: both barrels, anxiety, blessing, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Portions
...Across the lakes Through frozen flakes They come in storm, Whose breath be warm To change a freeze Into a tenderness, To fall and splatter, With applause To somehow mat......

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Categories: both barrels, birth, good morning, hello,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Uncle Michael
...His ramrod back, his brill-creamed hair and waxed moustache gave him a certain air, a certain dash, and a military bearing. His speech was clipped. He walked his stick with sergeant major's f......

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Categories: both barrels, father son, friend, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Chicken With a Gun
...Early morning wakens and as the cockerel starts to crow, Mr fox starts his hunting and toward the coup he goes, Peeking through the door way and thinking of his fun, face to face he is now......

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Categories: both barrels, farm,
Form: Rhyme
The Dry Heat
...stars slowly diminish darkness completes still we feel the suffers of heat the fever suspends in the thick a velvet’s texture mix clinging to skin as if drowned dawn flexes, stretches a......

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Categories: both barrels, seasons, weather, wind,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Escape
..."Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln, Billy made his bold escape. Both of his guards died from thinking, that a shackled young boy couldn't break away." I've often wondered what thoughts w......

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Categories: both barrels, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Count Your Blessings, Or Just Wait
...When you’re counting God’s gifts Do you use just one hand, Or are both hands not ever enough? And does life never goad, Standing there by the road As your brain whispers “Things are so rough!” ......

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Categories: both barrels, angst, corruption, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
Both Barrels - Shooting Widows
...My husband is a shooter, Which isn't always fun, As every weekend He's out somewhere with his gun. So quality time together Can sometimes be quite sparse, "But I have to have a hobby." He te......

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Categories: both barrels, dad, daughter, humor, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Inner Chamber
...THE INNER CHAMBER Please. Stop holding back on me. Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering. I stand here longing to slip under......

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Categories: both barrels, betrayal, courage, devotion, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Today In Billy the Kid History - April 28, 1881
..."Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln, Billy made his bold escape. Both of his guards died from thinking, that a shackled young boy couldn't break away." I've often wondered what thoughts w......

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Categories: both barrels, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Asked and Answered - An Echo Poem
...HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF People often say to me “What can you tell me about yourself” guess it’s my duty to explain to them and so I look them in the face and reply My eyes are......

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Categories: both barrels, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ole' Tookie
...tookie winfeild was a friend of mine from way on back down the way back in my river days mean old man with a heart of gold ugly old geezer with a silver tongue ole tookie could talk a mile a sec......

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Categories: both barrels, angst, best friend, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Town Called Rotgut
...The hinges of the swing doors creak as Zack Waverley enters the Rotgut bar He stands in the doorway his huge frame blocking out the daylight ‘Hey Zack’ I cry ‘Is that a pistol in your pocket are you ......

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Categories: both barrels, imagination, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Billy the Kid's Great Escape
...* Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln, Billy made his bold escape. Both of his guards died from thinking that a shackled young boy couldn't break away. * I've often wondered what thoughts ......

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Categories: both barrels, history, horse, humorous, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 12. Btk Coming Attractions Part 4
...Continued From: 11. BTK Coming Attractions Part 3 http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=195843 **************************************************************************** B......

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Categories: both barrels, cowboy-western, historyhumorous,
Form: Rhyme

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