Pain Shooting Poems

Pikes held high,
Flags fill the sky,
Drummer boys sound the beat,
Musket men are on their feet.

White smoke swirls, ram down the ball really hard,
Pour in the...

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Hate Vacuuming?

By Mark Stucky
Vacuum cleaners are pneumatic nobles,
built to cleanse our offices and homes,
sucking dust from floors and crevices
to discard in trash cans
(where dirt belongs).

What...

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14,000 bodies
sprawled on the floor
bloody
dead

14,000 families 
screaming to the sky
confused
alone

14,000 bullets
laying empty on the ground
dented
stained

14,000 screams
echoing through the air
desperate
scared

How can we let this happen?
How can...

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In the dieing sky a flying wish
Speaks a hundred words in just a swish
We close our eyes and feel the pain
And pray to it for...

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Gunpowder residue
Around my mouth
From when you shot me.

Bullets ricochet in my head
Like restless thoughts.

Who knew a false pretense of love
Would hurt so bad?

Who knew the...

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I wanted to believe you  
when you said there was no such thing as Hell.
I wanted to believe you when you 
said that pain...

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SHOOTING BLANKS


I’m shooting blanks into the day, when I
can’t have my way, and talking to myself,
Of pain, of bitter truth, and lies. I cry,
And leave...

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Tumbling randomly without any semblance of grace
Without any companion or a familiar face
No path to tread, no orbit to trace
Just a nameless rock, in the...

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They asked me to go 
To the hills, oceans, valleys and deep steeps 
To see the beauty of danger 
The mighty of height 
The glory...

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It was an altar of prayer
but God didn't rise
evil entered the house in a noble disguise.
Bullets were strewn 
sanity was killed
bodies fell as corpses
blood did...

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The waves of hatred and defeat
Go crashing into the rocky shore
With the sands of love and peace
Before you leave you must teach
The world what you...

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A black
room filled strangers

black air  
the only visible sense

hands holding guns
blowing through 
hearts

smiles behind
smoked barrels 

bodies drop
as bullets soar...

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You say no one gets the beauty of fear
It's what reminds us how human we are
The subtle moment when all is so clear
That from birth...

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You say no one gets the beauty of fear
It's what reminds us how human we are
The subtle moment when all is so clear
That from birth...

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