Short Cocked Poems

sunbathing wet stones
beneath waterfalls cascade:
dog with cocked leg...

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Bird on my porch rail
Head cocked, is observing me
Wonder what you see?...

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loaded silence
cocked
and fired



Published in Bottle Rockets Press #47

Posted on September 1, 2018...

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     guns cocked
     blasts shock

     men kill
     animal's still... 

     world sleeps
     who weeps...

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make believe wild west
fingers pointed and thumbs cocked
back yard gunslingers


For the "guns" contest

...

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Petite peak a Pierrots' hat
cocked tipsy veiled bride white
pines rigid as if in pews
do not bow to the winds' harsh chime...

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more defining than my laughlines    the line above my cocked brow














17.12.20

Composed for S. Grace's
"wonderful one liners"...

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Picasso in pieces —
a puzzle, out of sorts…
a commentary slice.
the raw rooster of war,
cocked and loaded —
a worldwide death sentence.

10/13/2019...

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Dead alive divine
Alkali
alkaline
earthy and noble 
tried and true
gaseous gratuity held by a glutton...
cocked fist held fast by none other than you....

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It’s hard to ask the right questions,
their answers easier made

The hammer cocked, the truth in sight
—through crosshairs query bade

(Radnor Pennsylvania: January, 2020)...

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He looks at her
Body calm - head cocked.

Her body rigid
vibrating with excitement.

The Kiss -
Said goodbye

	




By Judith Angell Meyer — 4/4/2015...

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cliché cocked

                              packing preloaded words

                                  eye on the kill shot
                                    






***...

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Gary Cooper cocked his gun
And pointed it at everyone
He aimed to shoot Frank Miller
A cowboy and a would-be killer
Of Amy, Gary Cooper's loved one.










3 May 2022...

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like a six-shooting cowboy
from the old west
you ride in
a sharp shooter
the pearl handled grip in hand
hammer cocked
firing all six hollow points
straight to my heart
another notch carved
on your bedpost...

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"We were cocked and loaded," Trump said*
His face turning orange then red
For Donald was tardy
To Kavanaugh's party
Since Iran fixed his squeaky bed 

*Proof that Trump hears only what he wants to hear...

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I asked you baby, 
do you
 have any screws loose?
You cocked your head,
 and answered
 with a yes.
And I replied,
with a penchant smile,
after all 
you've been through,
I'd have...... some
 screws loose too....

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there once was...

there once was a rooster from Nantucket
with vocal stylin's, it only could cluck it
it cocked and it crowed
strutin' loud 'round abode
'til the farmer's wife's axe did awestruck it

© Goode Guy 2013-01-28...

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Cocked heads at curious angles
Fingers probing
plucking
plinking
Seeking a certain sound
Not quite yet...
Restlessness increasing
As if we who have paid good money for this are not---
Ah! There it is
The lights dim......

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ME: "Can't you feel the chemistry?
Don't you feel that strong connection between you and me?"
SHE: "There is no chemistry.
I feel absolutely no connection between you and me,
but I do feel Mace in my hand, cocked, loaded and ready."...

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My dog is a teen drank with;
air-filled verbal diarrhea
percussion tongue and lips
staggering chaser 
fierce and marking eyes
flowing river of saliva 
cocked arms for attack
cowardly legs for exit
This is this dog I love so much...

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Hoodwink-a Pleiades


Hi, I'm a wooden duck
Hunters uses as decoy
Half suspecting young bucks.
High on the pond I float,
Hidden by the big pines.
His rifle cocked for prey,
Hitting a fawn all fooled.

connie pachecho

2/19/17...

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When you reach that certain age, the theme is WHATEVER
Things don't have the same importance as they once did however
We still must maintain
Decorum just the same
Can't go half-cocked, tripping lightly through the heather...

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Return the innocence you took,

afraid, we were, to even look,

so paranoid of being mocked,

revolver in your hand half-cocked.


Without a compass, lost at sea,

destruction was our destiny,

time and time, left alone,

with just the scent of your cologne....

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no birdie with a yellow bill
hopped upon my window sill nor
could he see me blinds were drawn the
window shut on day's cold dawn and
no cocked and shining eye gleamed thru
the glass and on I dreamed while passed
the time and I not shamed by sloth
prefer my birdies cooked in broth...

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My  tiny daughter
Brenna
hails the morning

      out-stretched arms
        catch the breeze
she
twirls like a merry pinwheel
 dreamy lashed eyes closed
   head-cocked
   harmonizing
           birdsongs

Buttercup pollen
   kisses 
pink
   toes
while the Sun
adores her



V. Anderson-Throop 2014
dew-blessed
nose...

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