The Quieter You Are
...ENOUGH!
I felt deaf from the ‘noise’ of information,
constantly butting, buzzing against my mantra of:
“The quieter you are… the more you… hear!”
At present, my lifestyle felt media manipulated...
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Categories:
gunning, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
The Chiefs Got Smoked
...
Patrick Mahomes and his boys all choked
When they went up against the Eagles, they got smoked.
The winning team in the Super Bowl earns a coveted trophy.
It's named in honor of the late ...
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Categories:
gunning, football, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Who am I without achievement?
...I am going to draw koi fish on my nails.
Tiny little things, swimming free in a sea of blue
they can’t see the end of.
But I can.
Everything has an end.
You must remember: live life with your ey...
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Categories:
gunning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Who am I without achievement?
...I am going to draw koi fish on my nails.
Tiny little things, swimming free in a sea of blue
they can’t see the end of.
But I can.
Everything has an end.
You must remember - live life with your e...
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Categories:
gunning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
How Their Eyes Danced With Darkness
...We had a desert mission
Just north of us in Zarghun Shahr
But little did we know that day
We wouldn’t get that far.
We did not doubt the intel
That led us up the road of dust;
an IED exploded,
...
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Categories:
gunning, war,
Form: Rhyme
Unorthodox nonestablismentarian epitome
...Unorthodox nonestablismentarian epitome
Describes celibate bent aegis.
Mein kampf illustrates gravitas.
Underdog muted lest intimidation
think bully brandishing fist in my face
threatening t...
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Categories:
gunning, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Matthew delivers his latest bullet tin
...Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...
from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out
eager and ...
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Categories:
gunning, absence, america, angel, august,
Form: Free verse
The Ghost Of A Laser Beam
...I would be a miracle
Caught in my display.
Another face and another name
Caught in a colored way.
Stylistic stipulations.
There is soft iron somewhere.
The ghost of a laser beam
Gunning at my ...
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Categories:
gunning, life,
Form: Free verse
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
...Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.
I chiefly function to amass knowled...
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Categories:
gunning, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Food glorious food
...Food glorious food
Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gu...
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Categories:
gunning, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Formidable flourishing fiends
...Formidable flourishing fiends...
harangue since landing
yours truly immersed
in a dream-like
fiercesome state of war,
not quite a dream
can be described
as a "hypnagogic state"
whil...
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Categories:
gunning, angst, animal, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Last Night's Freestyle Battle In Full
...My 1st round:
I know we just met and you seem like you're cool but there's a whole bunch of s**t that I don't know about you. Now I don't care about your race, what kind of car you drive, or how m...
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Categories:
gunning, angst, crazy, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
GASTON GLOCK THE GUNSMITH GOES HOME
...??????GASTON GLOCK THE GUNSMITH GOES HOME??????
Gaston Glock, the genius gunsmith,
The gun guy behind mysterious myth
And the groundbreaking Glock handgun,
Produced the glock gun but now gone....
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Categories:
gunning, 1st grade,
Form: Alliteration
Happiest Science Teacher
...Good morning Poison Squirrels,
Today I am going to address your bowel problems
My class groans.
We don’t like to think about them.
We are teens.
Your mouth chews up food, right? Asks Mr. Lee...
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Categories:
gunning, science, student, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Too Bizarre To Believe
...Anthony Blinken in Israel to plead
for a humanitarian pause
Though Israel contends it would aid Hamas' cause
In the West folks think that Hamas supports the people of Gaza
but th...
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Categories:
gunning, death, humanity, surreal,
Form: Couplet
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