Cinematic overture
Masquerade ball macabre
Stories from the pages of history
The winter cemetery
Abracadabra
Mountains of Bavaria
Hungarian rhapsody
Pearls of perpetuity
Threads of deceit
Born with two left feet
The shakiest gun in the west
Dracula and the dinner guest
Chagall’s whimsy
Frost like filigree
A snowqueen tale
The end of a fairy tale
Sleeping with prince charming
A storm is brewing
Brokenhearted sunsets
Sky with no regrets
The fairy tale must end
The beginning and the end
Morning apparition
The resurrection
Wings of wonder
Mourning’s in the eye of the griever
Tribute to Kim Rodrigues - title and every line are borrowed titles of her poems. I actually have a longer version titled SEA OF CHAOS.
AP: 1st place 2022
Submitted on August 2, 2021 for contest A BRIAN STRAND RHYMED POETRY sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - RANKED 1ST
and on September 14, 2025 for contest CENTO FAVES sponsored by CRYSTAL WOODS - RANKED 2ND
THE SHAKIEST GUN IN THE WEST
Showdown at dawn? I’m a clown with a gun!
Help me please! My lungs wheeze. I’m shaky!
Ordinary sort of a guy, shy with the ladies (grins)
Westward, I’m leaning. I’ve been meaning to run!
Don’t think me a coward! (wink) I’m for being alive.
Of course! Come with me. My horse, my lady, we ride!
Wind at our backs, bullet packs reject. Rescind the invite!
Never the worse, lest the showdown curse, the waning moonlight.
4/2/2018
Two rhymes on each line, an acrostic (Showdown)
Title relates to a Don Knotts movie
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