Gun Poems For Christmas

Merry Christmas. Have a wonderful time and I hope you enjoy these poems.

Many years ago, my Friday nights consisted of a limited gathering of friends and gun collectors to show off favorite or unique guns. We were lucky enough to see some wild museum quality pieces (I wish I was doing youtube back then so I could have captured the amazing guns we got to see, several of the men there have since passed and their unbelievable collections have since been sold and scattered and their knowledge is no longer a phone call away).

In any case, we often had a theme for the evening, caliber, action type, era, ect., as well as a collared shirt and tie requirement. During this time I inherited some very old books from my family and discovered that one was a book of poems and limericks written down from time spent at pubs before TV or video poker that the men there wrote to entertain themselves. So I wrote a poem for a Friday night event and started asking my friends to do the same.

My son was at first opposed to the idea, suggesting that it was a hippy coffee shop type endeavor. After presenting the historical context for the idea he begrudgingly abliged, choosing to write a poem about Mikhail Kalashnikov and the AK-47. He quickly found something interesting while researching him on Wikipedia...

"He (Kalashnikov) was attracted to all kinds of machinery,[8] but also wrote poetry, dreaming of becoming a poet.[9] He later went on to write six books and continued to write poetry all of his life.[10][11] "

Over the years there were lots of fun and clever poems written by my friends and we took turns presenting them aloud, not all of them were ground breaking literature but it was interesting how much better they got over time.

Hope you enjoy a few of mine from that time.

Have a wonderful Christmas,
Nelson & Ed