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Dead Eye Poems - Poems about Dead Eye

a small fish
...A Little Fish I opened a tin of sardines in olive oil for my evening meal. Headless and nicely packed they were, except for one that had a head-on was alive. I filled water in a jar. Put th......

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Categories: dead eye, 8th grade, age, angst,
Form: ABC
Premium Member High Noon
...Palindrome Limerick: High "Noon" A gun duel set for high "noon" A noisy crowd gathers round soon See Dead-"Eye" "level" his gun Against the quick, evil "Nun" Then the "pop" gun went, Ka-boo......

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Categories: dead eye, conflict, courage, death,
Form: Limerick



A perfect triangle pretending to be right
... A perfect triangle As he stood in the shadow Of the dead eye windows of his home His face alway up Stars or cries of cloud his theatre The sounds that based from his neon lit blue ears He ......

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Categories: dead eye, poems,
Form: Free verse
king oskar sardiner
...A Brisling (King Oscar sardines) I opened a tin of sardines in olive oil for supper Headless and nicely packed, except for one that had a head and was alive. I put the live one in a glass jar; ......

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Categories: dead eye, america, animal, arabic, beach,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Kinda Wonky
...Wonky is nature's norm! Our obsession with straightness, conceived in arrogant innocent bliss, kowtows to a belief that adroit straightness following straight lines, somehow makes things strong......

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Categories: dead eye, nature,
Form: Free verse



There Was Trouble Brewin' In Soup Creek
...As morning glowed pale light over the town of Soup Creek, Jenna woke with a start when she heard a floorboard squeak. She raised her gun and took aim at a shadow near the door, "Hold it right ther......

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Categories: dead eye, poets,
Form: Narrative
Love Is Overrated
...Love is overrated Misunderstood, miscalculated. It is the morning mist, A dew rested on the grass. In the warmth, it ceases to exist. with the heat of the sun, it's gone. Love demands caring, ......

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Categories: dead eye, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse
Dead Eye
...I hope worms devour me, cross my heart and let it be that my coffin lid lies loose. Lovely little bird, I don’t know if you’ve heard that I found you dead by my front door. No more chirping, ......

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Categories: dead eye, dark, death, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Dead-Eye
...Obliging black arms, crooked fingers cut freezing as they reach for winter greys, blues of sky- The trees are framed within her eyes green as last Summer's carpet. Embroidery of native......

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Categories: dead eye, allusion, angst, corruption,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Childhood Lament
...attracted to her fingers and slippery as an eel its one dead eye stares at her — the silver dollar lonely child spoons dirt over the sandwich bag zippered shut there’s naught burial at sea —......

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Categories: dead eye, child, death, fish,
Form: Dodoitsu
Shoppers Distribute Disasters
...customer service is not an alluring activity a dissatisfied customer is like Chucky their disguise is sweet until they speak, it's evi......

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Categories: dead eye, slam,
Form: Free verse
City
...Ah, faith! Golly gosh, life in the city! Hustle and bustle n' a big metro wander Exhaustion, life, anger and pretty gritty Misty, grimy lights loudly grab a beggar The sidewalk shops like a col......

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Categories: dead eye, city,
Form: Free verse
Tombstone Jack
...here be layin mean en evil tombstone jack they done shot em six times in the back they was afeard of his dead eye aim that gived jack his well knowd name but now they kin jist call em holey ......

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Categories: dead eye, america, humor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
A Little Fish
...A Little fish I opened a tin of sardines in olive oil for my evening meal. Headless and nicely packed they were except for one that had a head on and was alive. I filled water in a glass jar p......

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Categories: dead eye, imagination, islamic,
Form: Blank verse
Evidenced
...Evidenced FIFTYFOUR CharlaXFabels The Church Parsonage on Church Street the old Methodist Church where eye used to go to church it Burned down. My mother died a horrible murder death. My broth......

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Categories: dead eye, death, introspection, loss, mother,
Form: Prose Poetry

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