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Best Slingshots Poems

Below are the all-time best Slingshots poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slingshots poems written by PoetrySoup members


Close Call
Death whispered my name today,
a soft seductive coo in my ear.
Proceeding onward to invade my very soul;
And over my body,
I felt the creeping cold take...

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Categories: slingshots, death, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Devil's Triangle
Three points of ionic invisibility, drawn off the charted map
Of realism or reality, the calibrated compass spins out of 
Control, then suddenly freezing at polar...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slingshots, art, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Dragon Squirrel Brigade
A Dragon Squirrel Brigade

Dragon got home from the Army, wanting to be totally, in control.
He wanted to be a Drill Sergeant, to teach the recruits,...

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Categories: slingshots, fantasy, fun, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse




Premium Member Tall Tale
On one summer night’s boldest game
We hunted and attacked vicious pirates,
Riding on bubble rafts of spokes and rubber
Our young skin caressed by the velvet air;
This...

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Categories: slingshots, adventure, games, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Slingshot
"Slingshot"



two morning stars
watch the world
of man collide

two lions roar
one paints the sky 
with tears

the other 
thinks it reigns
winning wars

immersed in blood 
winning souls, covenant
two morning...

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Categories: slingshots, dark, i am, light,
Form: Free verse
Body Meet Avalanche
I was a prophet, wrapped in my mothers arms
brightest eyes that saw a darkened world
my brother was the halo figure, a golden arm for slingshots
a...

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© K.M North  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slingshots, absence, age, brother, childhood,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member The Story of Sam
Let me tell you a story about a dog named Sam
Sam was a basset hound of most dubious origins
He had a huge ugly wart on...

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Categories: slingshots, animal, death, death of
Form: Narrative
Wheel On a Stick Part 2
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Snickering Bastards     

Two chattering ravens narrate a tale of blind revolution and seedy...

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Categories: slingshots, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member May 14 Gaza Border
Evil is incremental
One bullet after another
And after another
And after another
Until there’s a blister
On my trigger finger
Where there used to be a wet print
Of a little...

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Categories: slingshots, angst, conflict, death, horror,
Form: Free verse
Flaws In the Design of a Butterfly
Belle, so starry; a growing mystery but you always meant love to me
a butterfly, please remain but I'll let you fly away when you're ready
It's...

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Categories: slingshots, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Playground of the Gods
Playing hopscotch upon the stars
Planets stare in awe at the child
Capturing the universe in a jar

Lassoing moonbeams, future rays of hope
To illuminate all dark and...

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Categories: slingshots, beautiful, universe,
Form: Terzanelle
Questioning Neruda
why yellow flowers
        Are so afraid of the wind...?
        And the...

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Categories: slingshots, allegory, allusion, appreciation, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Brotherhood of Man
The brotherhood of man 

 When he came into the hall, his brother came down
the stairs, he had forgotten to buy milk
Outside, guns blasted his...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slingshots, abuse, anger, angst, brother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Blooms
I had fun brushing the sky, with its impeccable blue,
then a sweep here and there of cloud’s silvery lining.
A few waffled spots amplified the intensity...

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Categories: slingshots, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Inmates
The inmates 

The young prisoners with slingshots
fight an army that shoots back with sharp bullets
The young keep on fighting
An enemy the knows no mercy, control...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slingshots, anger, assonance, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs