Get Your Premium Membership

Holstered Poems - Poems about Holstered

So You
...It stays holstered The hate that I carry But its never out of reach I heard your voice from a window And I imagined you falling out Spilling over the concrete Misaligned and stupid That's ......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Atlantic City Sunday
...Marble-sided buildings sunk in the sand Jumped 40 glassy stories on command. Everyone thinks life is nothing and money’s grand. Rolling chair hawkers spiel and cutely chide Sunday suited daddies ......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, america, society, technology, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Sooner a Matador Than a Commodore
...It was in Historic Forcados, Where I’d first touched Pride of Barbados: I’d run into A Talking Salvador Long arguing with Unshaken Ricardo, Whose interest were in Stark Bravado, His body partly......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, courage, desire, image, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Long Trails
...Vibram lugs 2 inches thick for edge work back when I was so young with mountains to climb the leather uppers with mink oil spread in the oven baked again and again Mountains I climb......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Endless Safari Days
... These leopard eyes warily see another crimson dawn on the cold concrete Serengeti A scarlet sun shaped like the barrel of a gun Dark plume of heat triggers the survival instinct scat......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, abuse, environment, perspective, violence,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Happy Trails
...Happy Trails Upon the floor I lay, Glued to the black and white TV set: In my western patterned flannel pj’s, Toting a cap-gun holstered at the waist, And a whistle tethered To my cowb......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, childhood, hero, memory, western,
Form: Verse
Yellow Flowers
...on a barren plain, the yellow flowers bloom petals painted with sunlight that never shined all the glory of the world gathered unfairly, although how could a single bouquet ever manifest this? ......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, color, flower, magic, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Re-Holstering Death Between Puffs of Moonlight
...A lifetime ago, somewhere in Houston, I really tied one on. Somewhere in the wreckage of a ninety-proof night. I got into a fight and lost the keys to my apartment. With a boozy shoulder, I attemp......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Run Away
...Run Away Ticket counter still open but no planes departing Ticket plus dog scheduled for 7:10 AM (Twelve Hours to nowhere) Bag packed with who knows what. Sidearm.38 snub-nose holstered o......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, absence, addiction,
Form: Prose Poetry
High Noon Antics
...High Noon Antics High noon, the time was set upon this arid, sultry day The guns would set against the other, quick-draw style In speedy rivalry and bid to have their final say With keen eyed r......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered,
Form: Rhyme
The Devil Came To Aspen, Part Ii
......The devil didn’t hide, he strutted right out, a smile painted on his red face. “Why my dear sheriff, how in the world Did you ever find my new place?” Abner stared on, seething with hate. “......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, adventure, courage, evil, faith,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Sand
...End your war now decades gone join again, relented brawn plant once more your dirt less lawn holstered arms yet never drawn Brotherhood mesh in faux glove family pride hangs black above leave......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, childhood, courage, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Open Carry Gun Laws
...At Sunday service I found myself mystified by something shiny. It was Granny's gun holstered, hanging on her hip. She smiled so sweetly. Nodding nervously, I put my eyeballs back in a......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, freedom, rights,
Form: Verse
Men, Do Not Give Up Your Dreams For These Girls, Keep Sleeping
...Men, do not give up your dreams for these girls, keep sleeping. My cousin had read this phrase to me in August, when my wife left me for a harvard graduate that moved in our neighborhood, which......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, desire, feelings, future, good
Form: Free verse
Harley Davidson
...HARLEY DAVIDSON The roar of the victorious twins that spark, Enigma of the spotless glint in the dark, The riders, symbolic of rare brood, Tattooed with insignia and bandana as hood. Third y......

Continue reading...
Categories: holstered, beautiful, car, character, dedication,
Form: Narrative

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things