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gun slinger

...The  Gunman

In Montreal, in a bar frequented by shadowy 
people who used French phrases, making money
fraud and mayhem, I bought a revolver that still 
had five bullets in its chamber
The next...
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Categories: slinger, 6th grade, allusion, art,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberLOCKED OUT

...You cheated in our relationship
You said one thing, and it was actually for another
Supposed to be number one
Turned out into no number at all
I was put on pause
You were the cause
Always stepp...
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Categories: slinger, anger, betrayal, black love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Celestial NAAFI

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The Celestial NAAFI

Well there sits old Buck like he always did,
Waving his pipe and tilting his lid.
There’s Johnny and Ronny and Shep and old Taffy,
And Soapy still d...
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Categories: slinger, military,
Form: Rhyme

Slinging Stuff

...Slinging Stuff

The Book of Judges talks of slingers.
Seven hundred strong, all left- wingers.
The Bible tells us they were terribly feared.
They could split a hair on an enemy’s beard.

And b...
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Categories: slinger, bible, history,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWord-Slinger Duel

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dawn dual duel
two  poets
a face-off  duel joust
free verse  rhyme verse
a modernist  traditionalist
mull and muse   tell it true
prompt a reaction   lay it out the...
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Categories: slinger, poets,
Form: Other



Advanced Nouvelle Cuisine

...He did his hash slinger training
Then with a couple of his mates
Set up this high class restaurant 
Where they didn’t bother with plates,
Just bits of brickkies rubble,
Guttering and such,
Jam ...
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Categories: slinger, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberClassified Ad a Satire

...*** Classified Ad — “Position Wanted” ***

  ((The following is from ad details written on the ad draft form submitted by the ad’s purchaser, who, while here was briefly helped by clerk ES Slinger,...
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Categories: slinger, fun, humor, imagery, joy,
Form: Narrative

Not a Humorist

...This poem is not a Black Lives Matter hashtag
That it will seek justice for George Floyd
It is not a racial stereotype
Or a free the back  hype

This poem is not to seek bail
For the black in j...
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Categories: slinger, africa, black love, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Epicure

...He ate a caterpillar sandwich
Just to prove he could do it
He just gritted his teeth and
Chewed his way right through it

He washed it down with turpentine
Which he preferred to any wine
Ate a...
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Categories: slinger, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWords

... 
Words
scribbler
ink slinger

When my father passed
found a poetic voice
to create word symphonies 

"Love your words before you pen them."

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June 02, 2022

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Categories: slinger, words,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberPlastic Ants

...His artistry is unpolluted 
the way he pushes color across his world
is a miracle.
Whorls of potato people dancing  
blots and dashes of undiscovered animals
black lightning streaks strike 
a s...
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Categories: slinger, art, child,
Form: Free verse

Due To Being a Mudslinger

...Might be due to being a mud slinger,
Which had looked like a humdinger;
When viewed,
Clothed or nude,
Then down house was a big bringer.

Jim Horn...
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Categories: slinger, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

The Funeral Procession

...This is the closest that I have ever been to  a funeral for more than forty years, a young boy just eighteen was shot dead for stealing
I sat quietly on the school veranda and watch the hearse drive...
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Categories: slinger, age, character, community, death,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThe Bony Finger

...The Bony Finger

Investigator Carla received a bony finger
Tossed through her window by a mystery slinger 
With it came a note that vexed her curious mind
“Th...
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Categories: slinger, horror, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Pressing the Button

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Don’t press the wrong trigger,
or you’ll get hit by a truth bullet
Peep sound advice:  Don’t pull it ...
caliber of proof gon get bigger

Press your luck, if you want to —  
false br...
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Categories: slinger, allusion, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

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