Short Gunned Poems

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Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE GLAD I'M STILL ALIVE

I’m grateful while living in a country so riddled with guns
where random people and school children are killed every day…
Where we send thoughts and prayers then try quickly to forget…
That I am still alive…and haven’t been gunned down…yet.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Late Majid Satti

Majid Satti was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Tuesday. According to the report, the incident occurred on Sixth Road in Rawalpindi when armed men gunned down Majid Satti. He was admitted to a hospital in critical condition where he succumbed to his wounds.
Note.Gunfire injection notorious group triple 3.
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Premium Member Manning Vs Brady

The naysayers said Manning was too old,

     And under Brady's pressure he would fold.

          But Peyton proved 'em wrong,

               And came through very strong!

                    Manning out-gunned Brady and caught him cold!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired

GOOOOO BRONCOS!!!!!!!!!
Form: Limerick

Speak Up

It you wanted to say,

but could not,

do so now,

for this is now,

that I am here,

after that I would be gone,

god knows for how long,

and where,

you are stunned,

your mind sort of gunned,

its long time since,

you learned,

that I am gone,

and you would,

hence forth,

find here,

nobody and none.

Simpler Times

I espied a young roach
As he did encroach
Upon a spot I call my place
I gunned him with some mace

In madness he did flee
Into a hole I could not see
Twas assumed death was his fate
Yet he had only gone to mate

And so I sit where I still live
Viewing the territory I did give
Unto this most clever foe
And his multitudes born below
© Jim Musser  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Unexpected

Tear-gas gunned.
Water-canons-shot;
Beaten...
Thrashed...
I, the unemployed
Stood before that police
One among them
Who had not got the payment himself
At least for a year
Just like me
Happened to lift his police-pole
To hit me
And when he found him facing
His own unpaid brother
Only tears could well up
In both


27 December 2021

South Africa Salutes Dr Martin Luther King Jr

South Africa salutes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr!




They gunned you down,
on this April day,
all those years ago,

yet you live, you breathe!





They gunned you down,
just as they did Chris Hani and M.K. Gandhi,

and they failed, as they always will,

for they can never kill,

your dream, your ideals.





Your dream, your ideals,

live, and breathe,


still!
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Moonshifting

That circle of lume,
You feel altering shape,
Moon seeping skin,
Of unfounded gape.
Fear, born again,
Into humanity shunned,
As what was not before,
Hunted and silver gunned.
Running swift,
You are free,
Unbounded by lawful mortality,
Seeing only what wolves can see.
When death comes,
Will you return to the moon?
Like the rest of your kind,
An hourglass of time, immune.
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Thinking of Dr King

He was gunned down 
   as were many in the public eye 
He was murdered 
    and his legacy 
must sustain us 
   There are few 
with such courage 
Unfortunately . there are 
   few able to 
  be free from bigotry 
I, myself have found myself 
full of hatred for those 
   who look or believe differently from me 
But I struggle to fight off those feelings 
   Hope you do too
Brothers and sisters
Form: Concrete

Premium Member A Hail of Lead

Blood can be bleached
From the weeping floors.
Broken glass replaced
In the gaping doors.
But today in a school
Where children played
Innocence was lost -
Mourning came to stay!
At a school near a wood
Wails for children dead,
For teachers gunned down
In a hail of lead.
When will we learn?
And what will it take?
How many need die
Before we awake
To the fact that guns
Are for killing?
Form: Rhyme

Apples To Apples

We wave good bye now
Yellow paper hearts
staple gunned to the bulletin board
flapping in the fan breeze
She nods at her work
The chalkboard washed and dried
And with gnashing teeth
One by one those staples pried from their chest board
 breaking, tearing the delicate paper-thin poems
One by one they break her hearts
On the desks, the apples molded
Like she did them
From seeds of wisdom she watched
their minds ripen

Let's Get the Heckle and Hell Out of Dodgy City

No more
                showdowns
                gunned down
                man down
                let down
                lowdowns
                sundowns
                put downs
                mowed down
                ground down
                lock down
                blown down
                sounded down
                Pinned down.
                Breakdowns...
No more
                shot down in flames.

Iron Fist

A country ruled with an Iron Fist
one that kills anyone who objects
A fanatical leader who wants the bomb
who blames it's troubles on the West
One that kills anyone who objects
an innocent student gunned down like a dog
Who blames it's troubles on the West
an election that was clearly lost
An innocent student gunned down like a dog
a fanatical leader who wants the bomb
An election that was clearly lost
a country ruled with an Iron Fist
Form: Pantoum

Premium Member Save the Innocent

Carnage at churches & clubs
Mass shootings at concerts & malls
Massacres at schools & theaters
Our children walkout today
Peacefully protesting gun violence

Background checks for all
Bump stock elimination
Military weapons ban
Commonsense gun reform
What our students are fighting for

People dying needlessly
Drive-bys occurring daily
Innocents gunned down in the streets
We need gun safety taught nationwide
Rallying for the wellbeing of U.S. all

Rusting Parts

Red,
Brown,
Gunned down,
A manchine ceased to be

Oxidised
Realised
Brutalised
Catharsis empathised  
Our fate it seemed to be

Hopeful
Fruitless
Helpfull
Useless
Your minds bent eye sees me

I lie here shunned
Yearning
Turned
To dust as you do sleep

But one man sees me
Joyful
Insightful
Ecstatic for my bones

Use is deemed
Beyond whats seemed
From rusted parts and skin
Inside what counts
Is what amounts
To what comes from within
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Premium Member A Little Chubby

He was a little chubby
   Others called him tubby

He couldn't catch a ball
   Awkwardly would he fall

One day he took sick, then got sicker
   At his plight, the others snickered 

He knew they teased him
   Which did not please him

He stayed at home, locked inside
   Afraid and alone, he wanted to die

Then at last he'd had enough
   Too bad for them---life is tough

He returned to school and gunned them down
   Left a note: ---Yours came around.
Form: Rhyme

A Reflection on a Christmas Past

A sad time for children in foreign parts that have no Target stores to be lost and found in. Sad for inflatable Santa's gunned down by B.B pellets. For all the children, pets and reindeer that do not make the last fuzzy bit of the six p.m. news. I’m working on my happiness, not forcing anything, being considerate to people and their wrong opinions - it’s what the baby Jesus would want. In the stores, I avoid Christmas music by singing badly and loudly.

Last Christmas

A sad time for children in foreign parts that have no Target stores to be lost and found in. Sad for inflatable Santa's gunned down by B.B pellets. For all the children, pets and reindeer that do not make the last fuzzy bit of the six p.m. news. I’m working on my happiness, not forcing anything, being considerate to people and their wrong opinions - it’s what the baby Jesus would want. In the stores, I avoid Christmas music by singing badly and loudly.

Premium Member A VIC-POL POEM,

Heard some twaddle ten days ago? some TWOTS with microphones giving it a go.'
Got some SCAZNA waddling in the hills.' 'Johns' Questioning the locals..By order of the shills.' I think there are snipers ? I wonder
Are there some, who gunned down our Koalas; 800 was it the sum.? Geez what a heap of trouble from twenty twenty on.'
Where has my 'easy going homeland gone?' Hey why not give the hunters shovels and picks? so they can dig the final grave
For vic-pol.. Away up there in the sticks.'
Form: Rhyme

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