Long Slinger Poems
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Categories:
slinger, fun, humor, imagery, joy, poetry, satire, work,
Form:
Narrative
Tombstone
Whistle does the lone desert winds, flowing downwards from
Boot hill cemetery, in icy chilling breeze full of echoing voices,
From the past, begging for redemptions last chance of salvation.
Roll does the crimson tumbleweed, towards the ghost...
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Categories:
slinger, fantasy, gothic, halloween, holiday, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
In Hico,Texas;
city limits;on 2nd street and elizabeth avenue,near a tire shop,and its where billy
the kid the out law lived and died;as brushy bill,so sad,yet here stood by those
very same street names in real life,his...
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Categories:
slinger, cowboy-western, history, family, family, me,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Truth and Consequences
I walked the lonely path the color of ...
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Categories:
slinger, poetry, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
The Funeral Procession
This is the closest that I have ever been to a funeral for more than forty years, a young boy just eighteen was shot dead for stealing
I sat quietly on the school veranda and...
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Categories:
slinger, age, character, community, death, funeral, judgement, violence,
Form:
Narrative
The Fool Kid Named Benny Pence
October had now come again just like it did back since,
The gunfighter Sam Holt had shot the kid named Benny Pence.
It was on All Hallows’ night with the moon high and blood red—
When Benny came...
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Categories:
slinger, cowboy-western, death, imagination, mystery, brother, night, brother,
Form:
Couplet
Wanted: Slinger of Mirrors
Wanted: Slinger of Mirrors,
Tessellating lungs of fulcrum
Wading into scorn’s yellow Spring pond
We are flying to the airway Of. I hunger for our old hunger.
We dealt our Hand and every Star
Only one pond my reflection’s...
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Categories:
slinger, dark, death, mirror, psychological, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Bullet Holes Through a Four-Four Count
Slinger
Waiting on the day
for the Swallow to transmute the air
between this ether and yours
patterned after an annual bedsheet
and full of a chest
swelling with blood
and a face
as forgotten as chests
buried beneath sea...
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Categories:
slinger, dark, heart, image, light, psychological, relationship, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Advanced Nouvelle Cuisine
He did his hash slinger training
Then with a couple of his mates
Set up this high class restaurant
Where they didn’t bother with plates,
Just bits of brickkies rubble,
Guttering and such,
Jam jars and slabs of wood
Stuff not...
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Categories:
slinger, humor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bony Finger
The Bony Finger
Investigator Carla received a bony finger
Tossed through her window by a mystery slinger
With it came a note that vexed her curious mind
“This finger’s all I took, the rest I left behind”
The note...
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Categories:
slinger, horror, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Celestial NAAFI
The Celestial NAAFI
Well there sits old Buck like he always did,
Waving his pipe and tilting his lid.
There’s Johnny and Ronny and Shep and old Taffy,
And Soapy still doing his impression of Daffy.
Flapper all quiet at...
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Categories:
slinger, military,
Form:
Rhyme
Simple Pleasures
Simple Pleasures
© Ben Burton 4-7-2015
Remember when
In the heat of summer
Daddy would come home
And bark the delightful order
"Put on your bathing suits"
While he hooked up the hose pipe
To the front yard spigot
Streaking into your bedroom
Getting naked,...
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Categories:
slinger, childhood, fun, memory,
Form:
Free verse
The White Man
He was young,
Had his guns on his hip.
Walkin the streets,
With a cigar on his lip.
The town folk were scared,
They knew what he could do.
They have seen what he done,
To a chosen few.
The leather he wore,
Was...
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Categories:
slinger, adventure, bullying, history, husband, mentor, mystery, native
Form:
Dramatic Verse
LOCKED OUT
You cheated in our relationship
You said one thing, and it was actually for another
Supposed to be number one
Turned out into no number at all
I was put on pause
You were the cause
Always stepping out
Here and there...
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Categories:
slinger, anger, betrayal, black love, character, conflict, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
Latta
She drives a friend to the airport
Hug and say their goodbyes
She stops and adjusts the rear mirror
Because the sun was in her eyes
She puts on some bob Marley
As she drive and sing along
Her mom...
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Categories:
slinger, friendship, mom, mom, , western,
Form:
Light Verse
Slinging Stuff
Slinging Stuff
The Book of Judges talks of slingers.
Seven hundred strong, all left- wingers.
The Bible tells us they were terribly feared.
They could split a hair on an enemy’s beard.
And besides the ability to split a hair,
The...
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Categories:
slinger, bible, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Beg Your Pardon
Here’s a short story of a cowboy I knew
Whose name was Beg Your Pardon.
He wasn’t a gun slinger in the usual way,
Though his hands were fast
And his foots were faster.
But when Beg started shootin’
There was...
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Categories:
slinger, cowboy-western, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Quick Draw
With the challenge of writing a poem in the now
I reach for my pen, a lightning quick draw
Gun slinging the page with a six shooter of words
Letters ricocheting off of the page, escaping the poems...
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Categories:
slinger, adventurewords, write, write,
Form:
Quatrain
Mightier Than the Pen
Who'd have thought it so easy to run a great nation,
No requirement for Congress or Supreme Court confirmation.
All you needs a Twitter handle and Executive Orders,
That's his guarantee to secure our fine borders.
While the Constitution...
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Categories:
slinger, parody, political, riddle, usa,
Form:
Rhyme
Sanity Masquerade
The air slipped onto the gramaphone the needle cutting me bleeding on the floor as mannequins watched with there masquerade masks sewn on took my arm saying "care to dance my lady" as we waltzed...
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Categories:
slinger, dance, drink, gothic, mental illness,
Form:
Lyric
Pressing the Button
Don’t press the wrong trigger,
or you’ll get hit by a truth bullet
Peep sound advice: Don’t pull it ...
caliber of proof gon get bigger
Press your luck, if you want to —
false bravado can...
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Categories:
slinger, allusion, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
gun slinger
The Gunman
In Montreal, in a bar frequented by shadowy
people who used French phrases, making money
fraud and mayhem, I bought a revolver that still
had five bullets in its chamber
The next morning, our ship was...
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Categories:
slinger, 6th grade, allusion, art, beautiful, books,
Form:
ABC
Plastic Ants
His artistry is unpolluted
the way he pushes color across his world
is a miracle.
Whorls of potato people dancing
blots and dashes of undiscovered animals
black lightning streaks strike
a squarish-lemon meringue sun
orange finned tuna flying...
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Categories:
slinger, art, child,
Form:
Free verse
Epicure
He ate a caterpillar sandwich
Just to prove he could do it
He just gritted his teeth and
Chewed his way right through it
He washed it down with turpentine
Which he preferred to any wine
Ate a chunk of matured...
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Categories:
slinger, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Word-Slinger Duel
dawn dual duel
two poets
a face-off duel joust
free verse rhyme verse
a modernist traditionalist
mull and muse tell it true
prompt a reaction lay it out there
lover of words, jarring ...
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Categories:
slinger, poets,
Form:
Other