Short Showdown Poems

Fat boys dance with glee
As crowd laughed with such relief
Basher angry flee....

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Showdown...
Showboat
Show up.
Show me
Showstopper!
Showman...
Showgirl...
Show out
Show-off!...

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Noon Showdown


high noon on a vacant street two drifters dance with death

©deborah burch
1.30.2013...

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The hand
ticks toward noon,
main street quiets,
a voice call out  -
make my day....

Clint makes his play...

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shaken
shanghai
shimmer
shimmy
shiver
showdown



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on March 10, 2019...

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Showdown

The hand
ticks toward noon,
main street quiets,
a voice call out  -
make my day....

Clint makes his play...

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It either works out
Or it doesn't
Either way things
Will be fine
Life moves on
To the final end
A last showdown
Gun fight style...

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Mustn't slow down 
	headed crosstown
To a barn made of lodgepole pine.

There's a showdown 
	at the hoedown
Where we dance with cows and swine....

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VERSELETS footles posed

POSE 1
cut down
showdown

POSE 2
wound-rot
one-up

POSE 3
ill kill
standstill

2020 December 17
*5th Place*
FOOTLE-me
~~Brian Strand...

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It's time for a showdown.
I saw him at the hoedown,
flirting with Missy Brown.
No wonder I have a frown. 
He behaves like such a clown
when he's out on the town.
I'll whack him on the crown.
That'll bring him back down
to Earth with a bang!...

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tic tock a high noon                                                                                              sun is glaring with laughter                                                                                             tails dart to darkness...

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Once would we see
Never would we tell the tale
The Armageddon

So catastrophic
An epitome of end
The unchangeable

Rivers roar like lions
Ice respect the heat above
The great Avalanche

Properties extinct
Human's hope elude for good
The WORLD'S end. Pronto!...

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One last time, I say,
Love me like never before,
and I will love you.

This is the final showdown,
what goes around, comes around.
What's lost is now found.

Make a great impact
by opening up to me.
My love is a fact.

Equate my concern
by making a difference.
And restore my soul....

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In the saloon a lone, haggard cowboy
Had more than double his fill, one last sip
An imagined past of unlawful joy

Recounting the times he shot from the hip
Barstools turn for a showdown, tables flip

Caught scheming. More than his pride will suffer
A double-dealing, lone cowboy bluffer....

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butterfly in blue
wafting skies we always knew
in orange-gold sun

redbirds sing farewell
a warm hour of green flowers
when still wind listens

to meadows and woods
minty lanes where beauty hides
round and round it flies

drawing stares it goes
about pink aster affairs
sunset showdown flair...

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An ultimate showdown of courage
When opposing forces have to meet
Unlike gunfights in an old western town
There's no standing in a hot dusty street

Not wanted but desperately needed
Closed doors keep this challenge discreet
Bravery is buried beneath a frown
as I sit down on this cold toilet seat!...

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The first game was played in California;
LA Coliseum the arena.
Here, you may have a doubt.
The game was not sold out.
This is just some more useless trivia.

The Packers were led by Vince Lombardi.
Hank Stram brought his Chiefs from Kansas City.
In this football showdown
from this West Coast town,
the team from Green Bay won the first trophy....

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As our swords clash
I know I gave you whiplash
You’re so fearsome 
Even in your own kingdom

Your eyes are in flames
As I aim towards my claim
I came with game and no tame
No one even knows your name

You can barely fight
But don’t worry, I only bite
I can make you back down
And I can do it in a ball gown

I’m coming for the crown
It’s time for a showdown...

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A flash of lightning on 
Marilyn Monroe's back
lights up the desert sky
on the set,
as 
Clark Gable
shifts his weary weight
on an impatient
mustang.

This will be his last showdown
Here are the ghosts
of beauty and 
pain,
almost gone.......
Twined together
for our greedy consumption,

We reap their  Golden Years,
thirsting
for that lost oasis
that once was....
Cinema....

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As a placid penny grips my total recall 
Brain wave insurgency from colorful streams 
Literary dreams
Psychic transport unfurling 
Following the beat of conflict 

This enthralling hypnotizing grasp 
Silent purging 
In an epic showdown between right and wrong
Gut checking realism the drama urges 

Man from wire, space to erase 
Start anew this karmic mercury 
This driving storyline underlying all...

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Whoa, ship ahoy, girls can play this game.
So we’re not a boy, we’ll win just the same.
Yo, like Hatfield/McCoy, choose sides, your name.
Go balloon convoy, water’s our claim to fame.

Though the weapon’s a toy, take careful aim;
Throw smart, redeploy or we'll lose in shame.
No fair playing coy or casting blame;
Slow down and enjoy the reason we came.

What's to win (or lose) in water balloon fights. 

June 30, 2020...

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SHOWDOWN

Blowdown breakdown tire no longer inflated
Sooner than later showdown shutdown
Clampdown lowdown holddown the hoedown
Run down  the crackdown and go
Spashdown at sundown shutdown  slowdown, oh
Everyone slow down climdown the rundown
Slowdown  the run down out dated
Meltdown shedom found show up get down
Fixed tires all round the showdown 

For Contest: RHYME BATTLE X SHOWDOWN
Sponsored by: JULI MICHELLE
©2018...

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Lo and Behold

A Subterranean grip

Alas a woman's mass appears in this Word Trip

She cries for Ahab to head ashore "Give the creature the slip"!

Avast a wide mast unfurls across the ship 

The Captain's cries for the harpoon are drowned out by the cracked whip 

The wondrous size of the White Whale appears from the drip 

The sheer weight of the beast causing the schooner to flip 

The showdown is on 

between Captain Ahab and Moby Dick...

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two angry men,
tete-a-tete
rat-a-tatting
a volley
of insults.
why?
nobody knows.
cup of tension
ratched up
to the brim;
eyes of fire
bulging,
seething
with rage.
fists clenched,
about to be...
thrown.
where's a referee?
somebody come...
quick!


Date written: 02/13/2021...

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SHOWDOWN

If you're looking for a showdown
Let me give you the lowdown
Words from my pen are quite profound
They speak boldly with soft hushed sound

Words of wisdom, words that mend
Words of truth that never offend
You can see that my words set a trend
Making me a trusted friend

So if you care to join the fray
Just to see if you can say
Better than I in my own way
I'll welcome a showdown any day

14 March 2018
For the contest sponsored by Juli-Michelle...

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