Long Shotgun Poems
Long Shotgun Poems. Below are the most popular long Shotgun by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shotgun poems by poem length and keyword.
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
shotgun, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
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:
shotgun, 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:
shotgun, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Saturday, September 23, 2023Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
shotgun, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
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:
shotgun, history, horse, humorous, love, me, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Asked and Answered - An Echo PoemHOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF
People often say to me
“What can you tell me about yourself”
guess it’s my duty to explain to them
and so I look them in the face and reply
My...
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Categories:
shotgun, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poetic Interview With Nancy ClutterA Poetic Interview with Nancy Clutter
(This poetic interview is fictional and imaginary, and is based on 47 years of study and repeated readings relative to Truman Capote’s novel, In Cold Blood, published in 1965).
An honor...
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Categories:
shotgun, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Inception: God Is Alwayz Good -Part 2-Was I ever handsome in God’s eyes? When will I take…take…
When will I take flight?
I’m counting the days to see you fly so gracefully…in the aqua-blue sky
I can’t wait to see you take wing and...
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Categories:
shotgun, deep, faith, freedom, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
shotgun, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
Ghost of Tsali ComesGhost Of Tsali Comes
Lost in mist and maze
Ghost of Tsali in the corn
River water runs
Colors of fall alive
“Til moon replaces sun
That’s when Tsali comes
Corn roots cling to bone
As he tends the empty weirs
This spot...
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Categories:
shotgun, animal, autumn, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween GagChief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
shotgun, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
The Ordinary Care of ProvidenceMadison's defense of the establishment clause to the Virginia legislature:
"Religion both existed and flourished, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them, and not only during the...
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Categories:
shotgun, angel, body, light, miracle, religion, travel, violence,
Form:
Verse
Riding Sixties ShotgunI was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
shotgun, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
from St....
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Categories:
shotgun, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Walking Down Main StreetWalking down Main Street
As the rain pours down and all the people are indoors,
I walk down Main Street, under my umbrella, alone with the world.
The moon is full, the air is cold,
But I am at...
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Categories:
shotgun, america, family, love, marriage, memory, places, romance,
Form:
I do not know?
Tom and Terry - At Milton Creek[My recent poem ‘The Dimly Lit House’ received a
Comment from Charles Messina that it could be a Tom and
Jerry episode… what can I say? Something went ‘Ping!’]
...
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Categories:
shotgun, cat, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gagat Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.
Missus Shaner...
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Categories:
shotgun, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Beary Tales Episodes 34-35, Interlude, Episodes 36-37, Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
shotgun, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White TrashChief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”
As Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got brilliant idea
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua
putrid offal getup.
Missus Shaner (talon clawed,
shriveled relic...
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Categories:
shotgun, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Dealt With My Cards IrrationallyI have heard that you lived a successful, surreal and spectacular lifetime
I have heard that you given it your all and dealt with your cards so fine
I have heard that you are beyond intelligent than...
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Categories:
shotgun, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Tougher To Look At --- But Safer To DateBrody McGregor, who’d all of us fig’red fer single, come struttin’ into the pub,
all slickered up like a man fit to bury…an’ fairly well knowed fer ‘is smile -
Strolled to the bar like a...
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Categories:
shotgun, funny, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Redneck Family ReunionEvery couple 'a years or so
Our family reunites
It takes a couple 'a years or so
To recover from the fights
A family like our'n
Doesn't party like most do
Ours gets a little out of hand
That's why we...
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Categories:
shotgun, america, crazy, fishing, funny, humor, music, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Uncle MichaelHis ramrod back, his brill-creamed hair
and waxed moustache gave him a certain air,
a certain dash, and a military bearing.
His speech was clipped. He walked his stick
with sergeant major's flick.
His corduroys ...
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Categories:
shotgun, father son, friend, fun, soulmate, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Highlights From Highland ManorHighlights from Highland Manor
Courtesy Goofus and Gallant
who began their broadly-drawn
moral plays in the 1950s,
initially depicted as identical twins,
but later on, editors for Highlights
indicated the two were brothers,
but not twins, and...
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Categories:
shotgun, adventure, age, animal, celebration, environment, green, july,
Form:
Rhyme
The Christmas MouseThe Christmas Mouse
T'was the night before Christmas
And with everything done
The kids were all dreaming
Of Christmas Day fun
The tree was completed
We had wrapped all the toys
When from the basement below
We heard a faint noise
I sprung from...
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Categories:
shotgun, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme