Long Gunfire Poems
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The Escape"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."
I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...
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Categories:
gunfire, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Today In Billy the Kid History - April 28, 1881"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."
I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...
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Categories:
gunfire, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Classified Part FourI was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...
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Categories:
gunfire, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Travel Light* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
gunfire, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light -Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
gunfire, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
Billy the Kid's Great Escape*
Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away.
*
I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...
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Categories:
gunfire, history, horse, humorous, love, me, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Cooperative Pirate SchoolStudents conservative of body-health care
invest as necessary
in bowing and submitting subservience
to orthodox heterosexual vampirate mentors,
fundamentalist badnews evangelicals
sucking on pre-meditated rapture
of Heavenly bloodsucking EarthNatures.
To meet conservative RightWing
LeftBrain patriarchal
student membership classroom requirements
of monoculturing monopolistic
indoor health-safety classrooms,
research...
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Categories:
gunfire, care, education, green, health, heaven, school, society,
Form:
Political Verse
My Friend MaryRemembering our friendship
how we'd talk for hours about
any topic family love kids life
how it hurt not to hear from
one another sending cards
pictures letters remember that
I remember so well that achy
lonely...
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Categories:
gunfire, beautiful, friendship,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The 'Vice-Canceler' of 'Joizey'Officer Gwendolyn Becker - a “newbie” - at Newark P. D. down in 'Joizey', was combin’ the streets for a couple o’ thieves who’d been holdin’ up stations and stores...
When - back in an alley...
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Categories:
gunfire, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Watts Is BurningPoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014
Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!
Run for your guns
We ain't backing down
Not this time -
Run through
the
poisoned
black smoke,
that
permeates
through
Watts -
Run pass
the
looting,
Run down
the
land mine
streets,
Run pass
the house
that's
no longer
your home -
Run...
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Categories:
gunfire, anger, black african american,
Form:
Light Verse
Watts Is BurningPoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014
Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!
Run for your guns
We ain't backing down
Not this time -
Run through
the
poisoned
black smoke,
that
permeates
through
Watts -
Run pass
the
looting,
Run down
the
land mine
streets,
Run pass
the house
that's
no longer
your home -
Run...
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Categories:
gunfire, anger, black african american,
Form:
Light Verse
The Serb DogThe Serb Dog by Vee Bdosa the Doylestown Poet
There was a bunch of soldiers standing around watching
a house burn and somebody said "Was that somebody screaming,
did you hear somebody scream?"...
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Categories:
gunfire, conflict, discrimination, hate, war,
Form:
Prose
The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At the SaloonThe Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At The Saloon
That wash-bin washed away tons of trail-dirt
Many a pint of blood too said the old man
He was lean and mean in his cowboy shirt
Weather-beaten face and western sun's...
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Categories:
gunfire, art, death, history, imagery, judgement, life,
Form:
Narrative
Memories of the SeaAh the lovely seasdie
Ah the lovely seaside
Childhood scents
Salt air, Salty bitter memories
Jacques had turned just seven
He dreamed to walk along the seashore
He dreamed to see the seagulls sore overhead
He most of all dreamed to leave...
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Categories:
gunfire, caregiving, confusion, death, sea, war,
Form:
Light Verse
Rural Pastrual Idle Feild And Meadow Warning!In a foreign lush green sprawling land
A patchwork carpet stitched together
In shades of tawny browns yellows and green
Rugged rock forest and wind-swept moor
Is a awe-inspiring spectacle to be seen
In summer's adorned frock adorned bushes and...
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Categories:
gunfire, conflict, creation, environment, mother, war, world war
Form:
Free verse
A Soldier"A Soldier"
He gives his all.
With honor, for his country, his flag, his God, his family.
No questions.
No reservations.
He bears the cost with honor, and with his last breath, he pays.
A soldiers creed, "honor".... runs deep within...
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Categories:
gunfire, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Unsolved Criminal Mystery Modest PrevaricationUnsolved criminal mystery...modest prevarication
Found yours truly
a grateful dead head
convenient scapegoat dejure
Norristown police officers
fingerprinted me for
casual postal employment
linked to vicious brutal crime
someone else who shared
identical name and fingerprints as mine
the latter of corpse far...
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Categories:
gunfire, absence, abuse, anger, april, bereavement, bullying, cry,
Form:
Free verse
The Crying GrassThe crying grass
(for the late Victor Jara,* Pablo Neruda
and Salvador Allende)
by ‘bro. zayid’
In this stadium
of footlaunched spotted balls
of what should be promising soccer stars…
In this stadium
reeking with the stench of terror
and the numbing...
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Categories:
gunfire, memory, violence,
Form:
Free verse
VoicesSo many voices, both men and women all talking at once, it was dark.
I don’t understand a word of what they are saying.
I'm trying to focus but I cant, my mind is wandering.
I don’t...
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Categories:
gunfire, dark, death, dream, heart, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry and Death by yolanda nicholsenShe'd entered my dwelling, my stalker a complete fatal attraction, mimicking my every move, simply distraught I was ,who could this intruder be, ripping pages on my Elliot Ness desk, pages I'd written I in...
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Categories:
gunfire, beautiful, i am, passion,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
I Wanna Go Home For ChristmasCold, lonely, long nights
endless hours before dawn.
The flickering candle in the night,
brings up yawn after yawn.
I know I want some sleep
but the hill I'm climbing is steep.
Each and every limb of my body,
creaking, screaming, protesting,
composed...
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Categories:
gunfire, christmas
Form:
ABC
"lost? I'Ll Find You Friend Pt.1"Another day
Another pair of eyes
Depression is sulking you
Well words for a bloody deal
I don't i can deal with you anymore
But im making sure the rest see who you really are
Now let's start this story...
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Categories:
gunfire, confusion, forgiveness, friendship, losscar, house, car, house,
Form:
Narrative
Escape To StruggleEvils with machine Guns to kill,
Ghost of my imagination were there to kill
Or to protect me from the evils.
Believing in myself was what left within me,
Left with my heart, my soul, and my...
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Categories:
gunfire, art, blessing, body, books, car, care, children,
Form:
Epic
CowboysA man named Ben stood on a slope looking at the gates of hell,
He swore they’d never turn back, him and his best friend Del.
They knew the bandits came this way, they’d left a sloppy...
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Categories:
gunfire, adventure, best friend, courage, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Whats Next On Their AgendaNow the protesting has started. They (Our Government) will have groups of protesters put in with real protesters creating fires, destruction, even violence. They will escalate the protest to where there are shootings. Once that...
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Categories:
gunfire, america, dark, military,
Form:
Free verse