Ugly Cement Gray Howling City Wolves
...Ugly cement gray howling city wolves
More dangerous than their county cousins
Tearing families apart with contracts
Filling office workers up with impossible tasks
Tearing heads off colleagues du...
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Categories:
derringer, city,
Form: Free verse
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 Sheriff quickly opened up and beckoned Tom, to come insi...
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Categories:
derringer, america, death, western,
Form: Narrative
Derringer at the Ready
...Her derringer was at the ready
Ripper’s favorite kind of night
Marlys wanted to kill him herself
After what he did to her sister
Her Victorian dress was the bait...
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Categories:
derringer, murder,
Form: Free verse
Up Soup Creek Without a Paddle
...[Every good story needs a sub plot, so…]
He watched from his vantage point on the bank’s roof
And looked out for folk that he knew were uncouth
His years on the run had made him aloof
But soon ...
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Categories:
derringer, western,
Form: Narrative
Snake Slayer
...I have a ‘snake slayer,’
a derringer I carry
when hiking in dry States.
So when I saw the coiled rattlesnake
sunbathing on a dusty track
I unholstered,
ready to unleash some primitive instin...
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Categories:
derringer, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Riverboat Revenge, Part I
...Lyle Cosgrove had worked the Silver Queen
for two years now, ever since he had left
family drama back in Ohio,
he had simply left his home and moved west.
He made a living as a gambler,
had sp...
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Categories:
derringer, boat, conflict, family, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Man That He Once Was, Part Iii
......With that he kicked his horse in the flanks
and charged towards Thompson and the men,
not expecting it, two of them went down
before they realized he was no longer Friend.
Now it was just Th...
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Categories:
derringer, anger, character, faith, hurt,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Old El Paso
...A SAGA OF OLD EL PASO
AND LADY B GOOD
There was a famous lady of El Paso in the Old West
She hunted and trapped, trading furs with the best
Her pride, her joy, a red velvet cape trimmed in fur ...
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Categories:
derringer, adventure, destiny, fantasy, murder,
Form: Narrative
Mssr L'Vampyre and the Slovenia Werewolf
...MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE AND THE
WEREWOLVES OF SLOVENIA
While walking on a path sublime
accustomed to at times, when I'm
just going neither here nor there--
but all content to only passing time...
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Categories:
derringer, horror, scary,
Form: Blitz
The Westerns of Tv Land
...I was watching the TV the other day
When a certain Rerun began to play.
It brought me back to one of my brain's stifled bans
Because it was about Lucas McCain...the Rifleman.
All of a sudden I ...
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Categories:
derringer, hero, memory, remember, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
She Runs
...She Runs
She felt alone in her heart.
It shouldn't have been like this.
Her dark depression was her only companion.
A silver plated Derringer was her only possession.
Not to shoot randy men...
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Categories:
derringer, anger, angst, bullying, depression,
Form: Blank verse
Cyanide Footsteps, Arsenic Touch
...Cyanide Footsteps, Arsenic Touch
Everything about you is toxic. Your lethal kiss at dawn ending my life in a moment. Your breath stagnant when you stand in my personal space.
Suffocation.
The r...
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Categories:
derringer, anger, celebration, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Derringer
...Times of Nonchalance By Jimmy Boom Semtex
ISBN: 978-1-291-77683-6
Derringer One
That oh so beautiful Derringer pistol was not just a gun. She was art. Silver chrome that shone in the lamp ligh...
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Categories:
derringer, anxiety, heartbroken, hope,
Form: Verse
Bazooka Joe Is Gum
...WESSON
GIVES A LESSON
WITH A .357
DAVID SLINGS A ROCK
COP HOLSTERS A GLOCK
LIZZY BORDEN PACKS AN AXE
MAC HE PACKS THE KNIFE
BILLY BATTLES WITH A CLUB
TOMMY’S GUN IS A SUB
KELLY’S GOT ONE ...
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Categories:
derringer, america, conflict, death, education,
Form: Free verse
Bazooka Joe Is Gum - 1000 Ways To Die
...David slings a rock
Cop holsters a glock, Lizzie Borden packs an axe
Mac he packs the knife, Billy battles with a club, Tommy’s gun is a sub
Kelly’s got one too, Bazooka Joe Is Gum, Peter Gun...
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Categories:
derringer, conflict, courage, death, metaphor,
Form: Shape
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