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Woe to the gun in a fearsome hand - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Wore her whiskey like a loaded gun - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

The gun on the wall never fired - Mary Jo Bang "The Fall"

No gun could woo me - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"

Unbelief is you with a gun in heaven - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"

the gun that will unmake me - Donte Collins "what the dead know by heart"

The requiem guns of strife - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"

Hung around with pikes and guns and bows - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

We have bartered our souls to the guns - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

With drums and guns and guns and drums - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

In a house made of guns - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

My yellow gun still humming with golden bees - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

Too young to remember the smoking gun - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"

Speaking like a siege gun - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

A long brass gun amidships - John Masefield "A Ballad of John Silver"

Having heard bombs and guns - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

And booming guns implore - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"

The fire of Treason's blazing gun - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"

Into the hooves and guns of the storm - Carl Sandburg "Bronzes"

The shovel is brother to the gun - Carl Sandburg "Iron"

Guns and money swamping the stars - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"

Where wallets are guns - Bruce Smith "Garden"

Reeling at the thunder of our guns - Arthur Weir "Fleurs de Lys: The Captured Flag"


Sweet melody is the undercurrent of gunfire - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"

Gunfire barks its questions - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"


The dust motes grew gunmetal - Kristina Erny "Abduction"


That motion is salvation granted at gunpoint - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"


Gunpowder.


Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"


An alluring rhythm of gunshots - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Out of the gunshot of the devil - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Splintery shovels and midnight gunshots - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"


Smelled of grass and gunsmoke - Kinsale Drake "(Re)location"

everyone knows how to run through gun smoke - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"


Playing cards with machine guns - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"

Machine-guns, tapping a code in Morse - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Of the piano and machine gun - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"


Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"


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