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Raid Versus Woe
Raid versus woe

Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.

Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...

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Categories: handgun, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form: Rhyme



The Last of the Funerals
“the last of the funerals”

today “the last of the funerals”
takes place &
the killings in CT get placed on the
shelf,
alongside the deaths at Columbine,
Virginia Tech...

those were the “big ones” right?

well, now, Aurora was a “big one,”...

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Categories: handgun, life, high school,
Form: Free verse
Polemic: America, Land of the Dead
Every 16 hours a woman is shot
by her husband or boyfriend

One American is killed with a gun
every 15 minutes

Over 80 Americans are shot and killed 
every day

7 children are “unintentionally” shot
every day

33,000 Americans are killed...

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© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, miracle, missing,
Form: Verse
I Won'T Deny Part 1
If I can make it home
I swear I've learned how to be a better man
If I survive tonight
I promise to never leave again
I've seen so much blood and anxiety I have to take down with...

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Categories: handgun, war, friend, me,
Form: Free verse
Reduction of the Hero
reduction of the “hero”

sees him on television
marching in the shows that
glorify war by painting so-called
“heroism,” as anything but 
being hired killers.

sees her in the advert prior to
the violence ridden film, when
the life of a soldier...

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Categories: handgun, life,
Form: Free verse



A Fathers Love
She came to me this dark sad day, wanting to go but ordered to stay. Locked 
behind these cold metal bars. I long for the day to count the stars For I can no 
longer...

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Categories: handgun, devotion, imagination, uplifting, god, me, dark, dark,
Form: I do not know?
Prodigal Son
He was born Joseph
Became better known as Box
He was a cool and clever guy,
he was crafty and cunning as a fox

Fell in love with the bouncing basketball,
and with the sound of the sneakers on the...

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Categories: handgun, brother, faith, lost, relationship, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Untrained Poet
I AM THE HOLDER OF THIS PEN
THE MAN WHO'S THOUGHTS HE WRITES
ON THE LINES OF THE BLANK SHEET 
JUST TO FEEL BETTER I TRY

NO MATTER WHAT I WRITE DOWN
WHETHER IT IS PERSONAL OR RANDOM
THE WORDS...

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© Troy Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, adventure, anxiety, inspirational, motivation, perspective, poets, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
I Know What It's Like
I used to have a recurring dream
In it, I was running 
I mean, I was attempting to flee 
From a man with a gun
Who tried to shoot me
Terror was gripping me
When my legs went numb, and I...

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Categories: handgun, conflict, dark, dream, fate, grief, scary, violence,
Form: Ballad
What Running Has Done For Me
I recognize they spot my back I undeniably do

Running keeps you in shape, when you’re stressing run, and my watch signals time to escape

When the handgun is fired you dash off leaving the opposition thinking...

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Categories: handgun, inspirational,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Goodbye, Andy Warhol, Rip
Goodbye, Andy Warhol, R.I.P.

Welcome to the world of sensationalism.
Welcome to the pop culture of Andy Warhol.
Who saw, in a can, nutritious soup for consumption.
And beauty in the face of an ungodly woman.
But remember, “Andy was...

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Categories: handgun, art, perspective,
Form: Verse
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.4

What a grand grandeur idea granulated.
Gaston Glock's genius granted 
Global...

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Categories: handgun, 1st grade,
Form: Alliteration
Bosom Buddies--Cont.
The drovers' hearts were beating fast
When our grueling drive was done.
They'd had their fill of dust and beans,
And the only thing they wanted now,
Was a long, hot bath, and some cow town fun.
  ...

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Categories: handgun, cowboy-western, death, friendship, history, life, people,
Form: I do not know?
Concrete Lily
I ‘m stuck here were sometimes the sun never shines and my only relief is a drop of 
rain from time to time, I fear someone may step on me and crush me into the...

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Categories: handgun, hopeme, people, time, me, mother, people, time,
Form: Lay
Quickest Way To Transfer Pain
Henry sat in
His room staring at his
Ceiling thinking, that any man that
Thought exactly as he did
Ought to have his, head examined
Or be seekin, professional help, 
But he could never convince himself
It was what he needed...

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© John Conde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, absence, cheer up, crazy, depression, encouraging, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Driving While Black Vs Ptsd
Dear Mr officer I'm just trying to make it home I haven't been smoking in the car sir that's just my cologne I just left a meeting about something that's gonna change my life I...

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Categories: handgun, abuse, america, anger, anxiety, bullying, car, corruption,
Form: Narrative
Ketchup
A child scratches a spacecraft in the dust,
He does not call it a 'spacecraft'
because it is 1911. The Colt Firearm Company
has patented the first reliable semi-automatic pistol;
it does not look like any other handgun.
Decades earlier,...

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Categories: handgun, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deep Indigo Mourning
My friend, how did he go so wrong?
Funny and jovial, was he, as happy as one can be.
Then, Paul shot his wife to death, mercilessly, 
Beneath their family Christmas tree!
Leaving behind, children...three.

He never had a...

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Categories: handgun, abuse, christmas, death, memory, murder, wife,
Form: Elegy
Voices
Water trickles on her wrists
Wiping away the blood 
Wiping away the pain caused by so many others
The voices in her head are screaming for her to kill herself 
Telling her to forget about the small...

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Categories: handgun, death, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Jocular Hint - My Soliloquy
Written: May 6th 2024

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It's tough to revel in delight, but I grew!
Dreams rouse me, not in an...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, analogy, nature, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Mind Full of Hurt
Why am I not strong when my feelings hurt inside
They took away all I had left me feeling blind
She ripped my heart out while he battered my soul
What’s it all for as you are thrown...

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Categories: handgun, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Series of Unfortunate Darwin Awards
The Darwin Awards are a posthumous honor, recognizing those who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it by their own foolish actions.

In a robbery way out in Long Beach
Elliot's handgun misfired...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, death, humorous, silly,
Form: Limerick
Deaths of Two Roanoke Reporters
Deaths of Two Roanoke Reporters

As we progress along but some times precursor
To things happening and then becoming worser
Again, another bad thing just had been done
Reporter and photographer were shot by a handgun.

Not only that, on...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, death, horror,
Form: Couplet
A Memorable Senior Moment
A Memorable Senior Moment

By Elton Camp

Old Mrs. Jones reached her car in the parking lot
Oh, but what an unwelcome surprise she then got
For two strange, rough men were sitting inside
With sudden anger, the elderly lady...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: handgun, funny, car, men, old, car, men, old,
Form: Rhyme
Cancel That Meeting and Greeting
PLEASE CANCEL THAT MEET AND GREET

Instant insanity insinuates itself repeatedly but not on me
You know who they are because of their unconventional  thinking
It’s the paranoid  pathetic people as per that which I see
And...

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Categories: handgun, angst, people, me, people,
Form: Quatrain

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