Short Caliber Poems

I aspire to be little more than of a certain caliber,
I'm inspired to become a person with much character,
Because I admire those who value integrity with vigor....

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Humans are like fleas
On this planet of created breeze
Your eyes will never see 
The whole diameter of the earth' degree 
Unless you are walking on the moon periphery...

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May the Lord express
        His credence
In thee, and let the
        Caliber
          -Of-
His conflations'
     Be surreal
In regards' to his
   Expectations'

            GF...

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J-oyful
O-perator
A-bout
N-ame

C-reates
O-ne
N-oble
C-omposition
E-mploying
P-oetic
C-aliber
I-n
O-utstanding
N-obility

Topic: Birthday of Joan R. Concepcion (May 21) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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About betrothal, caliber determines engagement:  Foresee glowing hundreds ideas, jealousy kindles love, magnetic night outset peculiar quake.  Rain serenades, tireless, unrivaled vision. Warm X-shaped yielding zenith!...

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High caliber verse
  the cartridge hand loaded

A new target centered
  all focus then squared

Its barrel’s been filled
  with red molten fury

Whose trigger awaits
  —a desperate will

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Forty-five caliber abstract
  targets big and small

Bullseye in the mirror
  memories recalled

Warning shots abandoned
  prey now closing in

One last bullet chosen
 —fired from within 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)...

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Twenty-two twenty-two caliber guns,
With twenty-two ammo,
Pointed at me....
By twenty-two small time hoods
Each having done twenty-two years apiece...
I'm hoping twenty-two times,
Twenty-two twenty-two's
Ran out of sufficient gun grease!...

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It might be a place
A heaven’s divine
Calling thy name
Given by mine

What you are
Is not your thine 
But solely based 
In creed and crime

Oh help forcefully
If you seek my dream
A gift of caliber fine
A lending hand as cold as hine...

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in a rapid wing
hovering even
slow motion
needs to be
slowed down

even the beating
needs to be set
from prestissimo
to larghissimo
Rimsky-Korsakov

tried to capture
the hummelflug
but this poem is
for the caliber of
the angelic colibri...

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swans left their bodies in the hailstorm
their souls traveled swiftly to pink lavender land
Ttey were met by colors and hues of the finest caliber
scents of rosemary, marigold and roses came into play
we are going to like it here
no, we are going to love it here!...

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Is your pen fully loaded,
  is the piston pulled back

Are the words of high-caliber,
  is your target intact

Does intention self load, 
  does conviction re-sight

Will the ink run like blood 
 —when you fire in the night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)...

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All power in the caliber,
not the number or the count

Its penetration deeper,
when focused and avowed

The wound well placed is mortal,
its shot not heard till then

But a gun’s not half as lethal
 —as what’s fired from your pen

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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plink and plunk

like rain of a small

caliber rifle on

a metal roof

and then a large

discharge from

a barrel that

unlike a sprinkle

of rain tears

a cloud apart

with such lightning

and thunder that

it leaves little doubt

of the commitment

of its intention...

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All power in the caliber,
  not the number or the count

Its penetration deeper,
  when focused, not shooting about

The wound well placed is mortal,
  a shot not heard till then

But a gun’s not half as fatal,
—as that thought fired from your pen

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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The caliber of my body contains fire
A roaring passion, embedded truth
That would send shivers down the spine of a lyer
A soul that awaits the coming of the messiah 
A furnace that a tsunami is afraid to come near
The mind must see that there is nothing to fear 
Then will arms and legs get into gear...

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When you witness that
Humans have turned against each other
Rebel against one's own self
Antagonistic to all living things.

Large quantities of firearms and ammunition on hand
Missiles of the highest caliber
That's enough to wipe out Earth several times over

Forget about global peace any time soon....

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Muzzle flashes
the stars shoot straight,
no curve balls, they light you up,
you feel the silver bullets
ricocheting inside the elastic walls
of your cringing red dot of a heart.
Low caliber
but they linger,
bounce around just long enough
for you to know 
that according to the long arm 
of the Universe
you hardly exist at all....

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musket
predecessor to the rifle
named for mousquette or sparrow hawk
smoothbore long-barreled firearm
cumbersome, heavy to lift

musket
used by infantrymen
during the War Between the States
Sometimes referred to as the Civil War
Or Sherman and Lee's war

musket
heavy to lift,
large-caliber, clumsy,
muzzle loading
shoulder gun
musket...

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human turret son
gun syndrome
genome thunder dome

range lightning rain
night sky of 40 grain
splendid caliber

X caliber

plink to think
dinky clinks
tiny echoes

bricks, all clear

fire flies
barrels of varying sizes
armorer princess prizes

she goes all .223/5.56
flash suppressed
range without a roof

took her rounds
now she frowns
tell her later

give them back
after dinner...

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Poetic depiction
prosaic description
Vowels come in colors
the rest black and white

They call to us orphaned
they call to us nameless
Our pens but a lifeline
that save with each write

To romance the serpent
to anger the saint
Each word symptomatic
our feelings acquaint

A bard or a preacher
their weapons the same
Whose caliber loaded
—to praise or defame

(Radnor Pennsylvania: June, 2022)...

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All has opened as far as it can today.
A 357 magnum Champagne bottle
brought down a wild unicorn –
frothy weeps the sea-snark.

How far open can a person get
and still live with those
ever expanding universes
inside them.
The spreading starfish
in a fluorescent splash of moonlight
knows how far.

The inevitable wilt returns,
but possibly tomorrow we may find
an even greater caliber to be fired from....

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I’m a poetic gun;
Shells of great caliber.
I measure each poem,
With my trusty caliper.

I load my own rounds,
Thoughts are the primer.
The powder’s my inspiration;
I’m a quick draw rhymer. 

With my cylinder loaded,
I’m ready to take aim.
Shooting poems into existence,
Into life’s open range.

In the heart of the prairie,
An outlaw poetic spree begun.
Shooting rounds onto the page,
From my poetic gun....

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since wrong is wrong,
and right is the only escape route;
can't we just forgive?
let bygones be bygones,
and love afresh renew.

Hold me tight like I was your own;
feed me not with crumbs,
oh brother of my father.
give me the jolly life as a man of caliber.

Do not sideline me
in the merriment of life.
blood is thicker
and water lighter…
let it not vanish;
these bonds we share,
oh brothers of my father....

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There were era's as old as the game itself
The lots were casted and fates decided
The era of old ways will soon fade
To welcome, the emergence of the new

Each gave way to the rise of the newborns
Nurturing them to become fully equipped
In the ways of the game

Soon the seats where filled with 
Different official dignitaries
Men of timber and caliber
In the council of the parliament
The Parliament of vultures...

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