Short Gunpowder Poems

fall guy

hung high


(Gunpowder plot)...

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None can hide your flair;
The gunpowder must catch fire
And make you shine through....

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LONDON 1605

It’s
Guy Fawkes
And the foiled
Gunpowder plot
We will remember
November Fifth
Bonfire night
Each year
Bang!
...

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Ammonium Nitrate
Acetone Peroxide
Butane
Dynamite
Erythritol Tetranitrate
Gunpowder
Lead Styphnate
Trinitrotoluene
8atha 8atha 8atha....

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The nation faced such doom and gloom
Men gathered in a basement room
The gunpowder plot
Was brilliant- NOT
And parliament never went boom...

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It is yet not let, please don't count your bullet
You may kiss me on the forehead once and forever
I am still waiting on the border
Can't we forget bullets and the gunpowder!...

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pop, pop, pop
a surprise
bursting in the sky
white, red, and blue sparks 
in the dark
gray smoke and smell winds 
around of gunpowder left behind

1/1/2019...

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Written: October 22, 2023, 
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Slight-shaped stygian sign swung in fiendish award
Witchy mage threw itchy gunpowder and abhorred...

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Does not always smell gunpowder
Even
The license Double-barreled shotgun
Hanging with the deer
on the wall
But if the gun
Be translated into any language alive.
The smell of death

#mostafa_ghalandarzadeh...

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So 
        fashioned with 
         intrepidation;
I’m a strawberry time bomb;
            Wound 
               up;
Unstable means go harder;
    Gunpowder in hand 
           detonate
             doors....

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The Darkness at Noon


Taps -  echo hollowly
over the grey stones,

acrid odor of gunpowder
stings all memory,

flag, creased, folded,
presented.

A last salute.
A darkness at noon.


John G. Lawless
4/22/2014...

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eating pigs
bacon and eggs
a glass of orange juice with a side of my gunpowder
I share my bacon with my soldiers
they fought along with me
for peace and equality
there's no men and women
no race
just people with conflict on the side...

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Hey hey! let's give fire
to the palace, villas
hold the gunpowder to set 
to burn down the house, rouse
who are poor
slum houses to keep hot,  sought
to keep them warmth in winter, in dance & songs
yes we should set
on the principle hot....

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City lights are diamantes
On a black-sand beach  

The bonfire is a driftwood woman
With shattered bones and teeth

We are a 
                Clan
That sends gunpowder to the sea

Fireworks are water globes
That implode

Just out of reach...

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Guy Fawkes, what
a guy, a gunpowder
plot to bring down
parliament in the blink
of an eye.

We remember
his attempt with a spark
in our eyes. 

Build a
bonfire build a bonfire,
the fire is still alive. We
have not let it be forgotten,
the flame shall never die....

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Fireworks and Fireflies

The sounds and smells of war
 jubilation at its end,
blended irony of history.

Acrid stench of gunpowder
choking sound of taps
hover over hallowed ground.

Gallantry’s entombed
silenced in their duty
whisper from the past.


John G. Lawless
7/2/2016...

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ON LOVE

Love is a gunpowder that will inflame
It will develop into a huge fire
Yet nobody truly understands it, 
It is also shared security, 
Should be mutual 
and if there’s an iniquity it also should be forgiven. 
Love is a dedication between good and bad. 
Love is not perfect because humans are weak....

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Tyranny melts away trust.
Invasions plague peace.
Wars destroy civilizations.
Coups ignite battles.

How can we call ourselves brothers
if we smell gun, gunpowder and blood
everywhere around us?

Let's cease tyranny, invasions, wars,
and coups, so that we have the audacity
to call each other brothers.......

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The shattered stare of the war-shocked
float and fade in the medic's head,

the spasmodic throes of the dying,
the sickening stench of the dead.

He trudges on through bloodied mud,
seeking out the lost and the wounded,

dazed in the gray haze of gunpowder,
slain before the battle even started!

....

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The armed militias
Plant gunpowder in gardens
And harvest the souls on the streets
Crushing dreams
Robbing smiles
Spreading pains
Everywhere
Here 
Dove of peace
Looking for peace
Here
The olive branch
An arrow
Dripping with bloods
Here 
All flowers
Smelling of crying 
Here
The truth becomes a kind of stupidity......

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Flower Bomb

The smell
of Gunpowder fills the air
with an aroma
Unbearable.
Faces are covered with t-shirts and bandanas,
objects are thrown
and windshields are smashed.
Only one is willing
to forgo violence.
Instead of a rock,
or an empty glass bottle,
a bundle of flowers is clenched
in his hand:
Ready, aim,
Fire....

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The Neurons request a cease-fire
as the Tears pack their gunpowder.
In this dull roar of cafeteria girls
I can’t find a cheer.

Humor crashed back aways.
Then crisis response got in an accident.
Badum-Kshh.
So we haven’t talked in a while.

I would laugh at that If I could,
because it’s like water and ducks having a falling apart....

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I am sure if the Rubik’s cube was round
Hurled away it would roll on the rough ground
Turn grenade as colors mix
Make gunpowder playing tricks
Winner is one making the loudest sound.  

January 14, 2021
Syllable count : 10/10/7/7/10 (howmanysyllables.com)
Contest : If The Rubik's Cube Was Round
Sponsor : Kai Michael Neumann...

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the morning breeze barely stirs the smoke
      from last night's blasts and fire 
            from the artillery,

smoke sluggish with the suffocating stench
      of gunpowder, burnt wood and 
            pulverized masonry,

yet, in this battered building, in an ugly crack, 
       is a lovely nest rebuilt by one
            now joyfully chirping....

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veins flow
scamper down damp slopes
energy
threatens overflow
demanding unsustainable wages
but we acquiesce
because
veins take up arms
pupils quit school
basking; enlightened
euphoria becomes low hanging fruit
the banners will read
PAIN BANISHED
UTOPIA FINISHED

all this while we stand atop a bloodied hill and scream triumphant at gunpowder sky...

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