People Shooting Poems

(In memory of the 19 children and two adults killed by gun violence in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022…as well as the countless others...

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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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ONGOING ELEGY

The words you’re about to read are part of an ongoing elegy that began in 1999
after 12 students and one teacher were killed in...

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I don't know
How
But we let it happen
again
there are already
too many
too many angels in the sky
too many. 
a girl
trying to save everyone
a heroine 
a little boy
who...

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Shooting sixty four rapids in the time stream

Powder milk biscuits helped yours truly, 
a Norwegian farmer wannabe feel bold
enough to weather inclement
steady rain which swirled,...

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Shooting stars
By Michelle Morris
03/12/2022

Like shooting stars
Across the sky
We lit up the night
We lit up our lives

We met when 
I was young
A teenage girl 
With eyes...

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man-child used to being a shooting star
drinks always came for free at the cash bar
full to brim with urges and willfulness
left wondering alone in wilderness
not...

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Have you ever seen that shooting star?
When people die they don't go far..
Look at the sky on a warm summer day,
the love you two shared...

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Into your arms, we raise our lovely children lost!
The innocent ones, that we raised and you created...
Killed by a soul-less madman,may his judgement 
be swift!

Forgive...

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Here are tribute poems for exceptional children and teachers who should be alive today:

Emilie Parker,
the horror grows starker
as we see your sweet image
and cringe at...

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Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
 
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we...

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In this world of beauty,                    ...

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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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"You are not alone" she whispered to a dying girl 
 while the angels swooped down to hold a pearl 
 Unspeakable acts in a...

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First we blamed the bully, for being hateful and unkind
Then we blamed the shooter, because there's something wrong with his mind
Then we blamed the parents,...

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