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Target Practice Poems - Poems about Target Practice

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Dark Enthusiasm
...by cherbo geeplay Sometimes I swear I see the clouds closing in, always like a high tide boiling the ocean waves. Now I can't move my limbs and immobile tongue. I am speechless in a......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, conflict, race,
Form: Free verse



Morning Reading
...Reading fridge magnets; surprised how interesting, the world is when stamped into rubber decals. Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest. Watching a colorful rolling diorama, pictographs tumbling over......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member JUST SOME THOUGHTS ON CHILDREN, BOOKS AND GUNS
... There is an innocence…a purity our children possess…which I suspect we, the parents, do our best to nurture and protect We strive to preserve their innocence…anyway we can…anyhow for as long a......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, books, children,
Form: Rhyme
Target Practice
...Of course, there will always be that one that leaves a smoking hole in your being, a wound from a bullet that was mistaken for love. It is chastening to know that that special person has quite......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The True Devil
...Eyes of a trader With words of wisdom You make destruction look so good You don't use force But the beauty and cursive of your words is tantalizing You can make dreams come true But what th......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, anger, betrayal, bible, christian,
Form: Narrative



Bring Your Gun
...Coming to the city? Bring your gun So you can shoot at anyone! Target practice is such fun; No laws will you be bending. All those rules you used to shun Have been rescinded; they are done! ......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Sadness Is Profound
...Today, my sadness is profound, and I am paralyzed Knowing I live in a “civilized” society caring so little To stop gun violence, we only pontificate and analyze, While lives of innoc......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, bullying, child abuse, grave,
Form: Terzanelle
America's Hedge of Protection Has Been Taken Down
...In the 1970's when Roe Verse Ray was enacted into federal law. America'a hedge of protection by our Lord God was critically damaged. However, in 2015 when Gay Marriage became federally legalized! Ou......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gospels
... "Gospels" Gospels are lost on a god words are never hidden under rocks unturned stones for the hiding Poets caress swords a legend firm......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, god, gospel, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fall of Afghanistan
...Just like dominoes, Afghanistan falls; It was only a matter of time. American soldiers cash in their chips And head home on a jet plane After two decades in the trenches. An unwinnable war is d......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, conflict, horror, places, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
We Need To Think For Ourselves
...What do you think about having babies who are only six months old becoming conscious of their races? Additionally learning how to discriminate against the existing targeted and targeting races. In s......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
American Hate
...The Asian community is scrutinized, Blacks are killed and cuffed on the street. You’ll order Pei-Wei and Big Bowl, Then scope them out, target practice. The very people arresting blacks, They ......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Uyghur Poetry Translations
...With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps. Elegy by Perhat Tursun loose tran......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, allah, culture, discrimination, faith,
Form: Free verse
Target Practice
...shooting aimless blame careful how you love yourself ~ cupid’s boomerang......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, anti bullying,
Form: Senryu
Perhat Turson: Elegy Translation
...Perhat Tursun Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun......Read the rest...
Categories: target practice, brother, eulogy, magic, prison,
Form: Free verse

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