Long Water gun Poems

The kid who often was lost in 
The sauce Joshua! His 
 birthday was in June. He became
The strong silent youngster with 
The youngest kids. 
 A small Celebration was held in
Josh's honor party at...

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Barbie, Atari, He-man 
Batman, She-Ra, Ronald Reagan
Lower student loans, and landline phones
The Dark Crystal and around 5.2 billion people 
Andre the Giant’s Honeycomb commercial 
Rainbow Brite, Jem, and Rose Petal 
Welcome to the Jungle, Cheers!...

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Out of the west, amide a beautiful sunrise… came a pie eyed son of a gun.
Looking for Armadilly Billy the Sling Shot Kidster… water gun… in hand.
He rode a very slow plug, an inchworm called...

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Your chlorinated water comes through colluded rusted pipes ;
your city taxes you to clean it up;
 your house is torn down so they can build a strip mall;
 they ridicule you and at the school...

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"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."
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GOING  with  GUNS 

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“Everything you can imagine is real” – Pablo Picasso


So many books, movies, and paintings
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ALONE IN THIS HOUSE QUIET AS A MOUSE WONDERING WHEN IT'LL BE MY TURN
 
NOTHINGS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE POOR

THE PRICE I PAID THE WOMEN YOU LAID ONLY IF SHE...

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HAPPY  HOLI  &  HAPPY EASTER  TO ALL MY FRIENDS ON POETRY SOUP

Why the colors of Holi
.
Whenever spring comes
It brings the feelings of a joyous season 
When the birds 
Began to sing
And...

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I'm not critically aclaimed,
I ain't got no money to my name,
I'm having ot hang my head in shame,
there ain't nothin' good about me,
I'll just have to wait for you to see.

I'm going to let you...

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I have been chained to this movie set for days.
By the time the stars come back to start the season
I will be lying in a dehydrated puddle of death.
I dread how my corpse will smell.
It...

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We get it, You're so tough
We know you're not the type to bluff
You talk loud in a crew, but when you're alone you sing low
You've never held a water gun, but you act like you...

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Hood fellow, pull her hair like I do the trigger
Plenty of cash, don't care if she's a gold-digger
She broke-up with her ex and got me, lost and found
Get in bed, take out my pistol, let...

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The howls of the wolfs strike the beast beneath the bed it roars 
For it’s the full moon to night Scary of course
The little kid crawls out the bed to go to the toilet that...

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Down the interracial, middle-class block
there's a kid who talks like a mature guy...
using words only a grown-up man does,
" It's awesome to be cool! Let's have a fist fight!"
One evening, he drank from a can...

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We want fun
So lets have fun

Lets feel the warmth of the lemon colored sun
And have in hand a water gun
I want the pellets to hit our faces
And try to run through the dry spaces

Oh, isn’t...

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i was six and you were nine
you would pack sunlight into a jar
tell me it was mine.

at night it lit my room.

when the stars were out
you'd throw stones to wake me up.

butterfly nets in hand
we'd...

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“Baby, win me a prize at the county fair.”

The smell of funnel cake mingles with the metallic scent of rickety rides.  The smoke billowing in the air accents my chills but I still want...

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Once so happy and carefree
Filled with wonder and curiosity
looking for answers to life's mysteries
Love once filled the void in me.

As a mother there was a lot of fun
soaking my kids with the hose or a...

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We cousins looked forward to our summer holidays which were full of fun
Our barbaric guffaws were louder than the joys of any battle won
One was always on the run while another chased him with a...

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Seagulls circle my head,
looking for a place to land,
I wave my arms frantically,
so they will ignore my hair,
a way to give them a scare. 

Seagulls circle my head,
those darn birds are stubborn, 
they are persistent...

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It’s like living in black and white, 
suddenly there is color; 
It’s like tears in your eyes, 
then suddenly you’re on fire;
Give me a water gun and mug me;
Hand me that piece of plastic, 
whip...

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Summer Water Weapons

Forty caliber water gun
Holding off the summer heat
To lay in wait behind the hedge
Then beat a hasty wet retreat.

Super soaker weapon of choice
Beneath the scorching summer sun
Secret cache given away when
Drippy footprints circle...

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