Stop Poking My Chicken Poop
...I have a rifle,
you have a double-barreled shotgun -
you're just old fashioned that way.
The cat, the black and white cat,
is watching everything from the barn.
I am just letting you know
t...
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Categories:
double barreled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Time Out of Time
...
Gone
lit-up-light-of-
nothing peculiar
we-you-and this
sewing tight the nebulous.
Salted tongues of silence,
pillow-sex for the nearly departed.
Adjust body-images,
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Categories:
double barreled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Imagine My Shock
...Hickory Dickory. Can you imagine my shock,
when I saw a mouse in my grandfather clock?
The hands moved until the chimes struck one.
I took aim with my double barreled shot gun.
That mouse squea...
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Categories:
double barreled, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Door Locked Is a Gun Cocked
...A door with a strong key locked
Is a room outrightly blocked!
So, in which space had folks flocked
When darkest eleven clocked?
Not a door at which one knocked,
For stubborn key one has mocked...
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Categories:
double barreled, allusion, education, house, places,
Form: Rhyme
Tales of the Bone
...Skull where is your brain,
where inside this abandoned cave is your mind?
Did God leave you like this
your jaw open in that crazy grin
the wind echoing under your cracked dome?
There are field...
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Categories:
double barreled, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Emily Said
...the sun is bright
but doesn't warm my heart
today
Emily said that "thing with feathers" *
perched in my soul
would never stop singing
it does
and I just want to crawl back in bed
be uncon...
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Categories:
double barreled, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Ballad of Reina Rogan
...The rebel who came to town
In search of inner peace
She roams the American West
Specifically, the Texas Hill Country and South Plains
She keeps a journal of her adventures and fights
in...
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Categories:
double barreled, care, forgiveness, grief, how
Form: Free verse
Murdered On Halloween
...It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen.
I was murdered 100 years ago on Halloween.
A man accused me of vandalizing his house but I didn't do it.
I told him that I was innocent but sadly, I ...
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Categories:
double barreled, fear, halloween, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Her Name Was Rose
...he looked at the gun double barreled and lean
but it was an old water pistol from his childhood
the rope around his neck had become a bunjee
and he bounced between floor boards and ceiling...
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Categories:
double barreled, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
So Double Minded
...
You love to double dare,
double down
Raise the stakes and double the bet
You love to double dip,
double back
Lower the cage and shark bite thru the double mesh net
The risk of getting ...
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Categories:
double barreled, evil, imagery, parody, word
Form: Rhyme
Totalitarian Menu
...
If you want to keep
your expanding
civil liberty weight down,
we suggest you try the alphabet dictator soup
It’s demagogue-approved to keep the
publi...
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Categories:
double barreled, metaphor, political, satire, truth,
Form: Verse
Confessions of a Double Barreled Drama Queen
...(just kidding, maybe should be titled: H to O)
career plan
He wants to be a pool boy
sitting round the pond
with a leather-tan employer
wearing nothing but her blonde.
when too littl...
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Categories:
double barreled, humor, water,
Form: Verse
Gun
...Does not always smell gunpowder
Even
The license Double-barreled shotgun
Hanging with the deer
on the wall
But if the gun
Be translated into any language alive.
The smell of death
#mostafa_...
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Categories:
double barreled, peace,
Form: Blank verse
The Suicide Soul
...A life uninhabited by the suicide soul
life ground him down and took its toll
once a fruitful hardworking life endured
grandeur created from dreams obscured
Being an Entrepreneur creating millio...
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Categories:
double barreled, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Five Year Old Logic
...FIVE YEAR OLD LOGIC
Earned a reward for yard-work with the mowlawner,
And kitchen work with the washdisher.
Then took a shower and used special hairpoo:
Went to theatre to see a performanc...
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Categories:
double barreled, humor, word play,
Form: Light Verse
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