Gun Barrel Poems - Poems about Gun Barrel

who will be late

...who will be on time today for lunch?
who will be late?
always the same scenario
Mimi is early
Lee will be late, and she is
their behaviors as predictable as the coldness of a gun barrel...

A World on Fire

...There are going to be incursions, invasions,
military and terrorist strikes,

we look to the future, yet nobody can see
beyond tomorrow.

Earth and ash confirm
that there is a spiritual fire
...

Chapter 90 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Damali and Dj: United Nations

...The next day. It was iffy everybody 
Was tense. The Hakim family was
Distrustful of The Black China Men. 
Early morning 8 am Friday. 
Damali rose from his slumber 
First followed by DJ Desharah
...

Night Flight

...
"Night Flight"

the sky is 
an open eye
blue as the
Orpheus ocean 

clear in the 
shallows' grit
naivety irritates it 
birthing hard gems

it calls in 
from beneath...

Humming Bird

...The gentle buzzing sound echoed memories of a fading childhood

When she and her cousin had whispered secrets at the mosque

About undying love and first kisses before being stung by a bee

‘Ho...

Rat Exploited

...There is space, an orangey sort of large space,
That makes one wonder where his teeth had gone.
Stuck on the elm, pulled out by the dentist,
Swallowed by the hollow sun.
And on it a piece of ivor...

The Camel Train Vision

...The heat shimmered on the horizon
As the dust devils danced across the desert zone
Our car was placed in four wheel drive
As we traveled on in an effort to stay alive

The dirt road stretched in...

Happy Father's Day

...You’re my Dad that proudly introduced me to the race cars and sports, from spark plugs & curve balls to the other manly cool sorts!

You’re my Father that explored with me the adventures of hunting...

The Guardian

...He pours through my soul, like silky hot chocolate; I dream of loving smiles and a golden heart.  A guardian spirit whose voice I’ve heard only once.  You kept me safe as I trembled, looki...

Plenty Puddles Of

...

I was double aged in a gun barrel
Thirty silver pieces 
was gone in sixty trigger seconds

White smoke,
blue flame
Crimson puddles of scarlet pain

Crooked arch shot fear darts
fr...

Yeeeahhhh

...a cowboys whaaahooo?
hollywood sounded that way
then came clint eastwood

'the unforgiven'
the best western of all time
rawest truths of life

'ah'm here tuh kill you
little bill for what yo...

Cutting My Losses

...Atmospheric grayscale mirrors my mood
where rainbow pastels are loath to intrude,
monochrome perverse looms ‘cross universe -

black powder train, mind is gun barrel gray
cold dispassionate muzz...

Cannibal Lies

...

American Daughters of the Civil War Revolution
are so madly in love with their Bluish-Gray metal sons
Incestuous desires borne of slave tax oppression

Give to Caesar whatever tribute ...

No Fanfare For This Common Man

...zealotry yawping within un
   pretentious sporty, quirky, 
   oddly, manly, kooky, impisly, gummy, 
   edgy, dorky, cocky, belly airs

to disseminate, a quick  
  literary flourishing brushstro...

Nightmare Abroad

...Three years have been a lifetime, 
In a place unfathomable-

Met with a gun barrel to the scalp,
Scars cover his back, tortured for freedom,
  Punished for a woman he loves who stands proud with...

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