Spittoon Poems

Premium MemberNaive Faith

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I struggled in vain to conceal my shock at the sight of the lady in her thirties but looking much younger in flashing dress with a lot of makeup on – obviously dressed to kill. In her presence, I s...
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Categories: spittoon, betrayal, faith,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberTwo legged Toxins

...When they become a toxin in your mind 
when they steal, lie and threaten your life
even if their blood it's time to cut ALL ties.
Your heart was not meant to be used as a spittoon
your mind was n...
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Categories: spittoon, freedom,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberFear of the Unknown

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       A crack in the pavement
          Does it portend
       a death in the family
          an untimely end  

       Is it an opening
          for widow’s weeds 
       or just a spitt...
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Categories: spittoon, death, fear, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEqual Time for Ladies

...When asked to write Limericks about ladies
I said, "Oh, no. There's no way in Hades!"
Too many are my friends
I'd have to make amends
Not even for a brand new Mercedes

Then, I gave the matter ...
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Categories: spittoon, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberA Hat Full

...*Image of Ten Gallon Stetson by IBA.

A Hat Full

A cowboy with a ten-gallon hat,
Seen a spittoon and gave it a spat,
A girl screamed, "That's my vase!",
She then frowned in his fa...
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Categories: spittoon, character, funny, western,
Form: Limerick


Premium MemberMister Sunshine

...He’s a broken leg performer with a crooked second act.
Went from Brooklyn to Las Vegas with his sarcasm intact.
Does a Smith and Wesson stand-up, voice as sweet as antifreeze.
Tells you how he los...
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Categories: spittoon, allegory, sunshine,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberBite Size

...Cerise took a bite of the cherry

ground her teeth on the pip

a kernel of truth searching salvation

conditioned to drivel and drool

Salvador handed her a spittoon

to release the rest of...
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Categories: spittoon, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAdvice To the Earthling, From What You Would Call An Alien Being

...From all worlds and time’s eternal outer reaches,
Where the Creator is perceived to dwell.
You try to learn what your told He teaches,
Regarding Life, the Universe, Heaven and Hell.

The soul is...
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Categories: spittoon, allusion, analogy, earth, extended
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAre Horses As Brave As Cowboys

...Their bridled haunt, each day may be their last; yeehaw.*
The narrow way, down mountainside, and clop of shoes.
The saddlebags dip left and right in gait and gnaw.
The spirit wind and pouring r...
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Categories: spittoon, animal, courage,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSaint Nick

...Sloppy Santa spent his Christmas jolly 
Until in folly he sat on holly
Yet Old Saint Nick laughed like a loon.
Bright eyes twinkling, his cap did doff
Watching a rich eggnog run off
With his dea...
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Categories: spittoon, christmas, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIt's Tradition

...Is there a reason why all ballplayers spit
Can they get to the majors, if a spittoon they can't hit
Twenty paces while chawing
On tobaccy, while jawing
At the ump, methinks its likely tra...
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Categories: spittoon, baseball,
Form: Limerick

Padre Has a Gun

...Mary Six Pack Pistols staggers through time portals drunk
Pretending to be a priest but she is not a mister or a sister 
To the old west saloon through double doors she glides
Drunker than a nun o...
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Categories: spittoon, conflict, death, murder, sin,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Premium MemberToo Much Fiber In the Diet

...I never knew that most monkeys will swoon
To eat bananas in a real saloon --
  They'll snarf down bunches
  After monster lunches --
Then vomit up the peels in the spittoon...
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Categories: spittoon, animal, food, nonsense, sick,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberGod Sees the Courageous At Work

...Strangers are attacking me; 
ruthless men seek my life—
men without regard for God.  Selah

Psalm 54:3

GOD SEES THE COURAGEOUS AT WORK

Wild-eyed disregard for God —
The moc...
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Categories: spittoon, abortion, christian, dark, murder,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnquotable Quotes: Xlvi - Tongue-Twisting Epigrams

...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVI - Tongue-Twisting Epigrams

An aborted foetus never stops growing in the mind of the aborted mother. She never tires of making more babies to nurture the memory of the ab...
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Categories: spittoon, humor, irony, people, satire,
Form: Epigram

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