Abilene Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	Screaming Guillotines	stark hunter	Free verse	Free verse	abilene, allegory, america,
	A Very Bad Man	Larry Bradfield	Limerick	Limerick	abilene, humorous,
	Another Day Another Accursed Blank Screen	matthew harris	Lyric	Lyric	abilene, 11th grade, art, dream,
	The Golden Curl	Larry Bradfield	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, life,
	Rodeo Clown	roger turner	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, america, anxiety, career, courage,
	Roll On Mixin' Bowl	Duncan R. M. Ferguson	Enclosed Rhyme	Enclosed Rhyme	abilene, word play,
	A Memory Of Silence	Larry Bradfield	Pantoum	Pantoum	abilene, lost love,
	She Beat All I Ever Saw	Larry Bradfield	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, lost love,
	Dead in Abilene	Larry Bradfield	Cowboy	Cowboy	abilene,
	Venus Looked Good In Sheer	Larry Bradfield	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, humor,
	The Cowboy Life	R. e. taylor	Free verse	Free verse	abilene, life,
	Preterition of Cooking	Larry Bradfield	Cowboy	Cowboy	abilene,
	The Perils of Slim	Larry Bradfield	Cowboy	Cowboy	abilene,
	The Brown Eyed Calf	Larry Bradfield	Cowboy	Cowboy	abilene,
	Reminisces Of An Old Cowpoke	Robert L. Hinshaw	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene,
	Mateo	Peter Lewis Holmes	Haibun	Haibun	abilene, adventure, death,
	Old Abilene	Ken Jordan	Verse	Verse	abilene, conflict, racism,
	Hank's Last Roundup	Robert L. Hinshaw	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, humorous,
	Cowboys in the Badlands	Robert Lindley	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, beauty, creation, dedication, freedom,
	Real Cowboys Don't Sing Honky-Tonk Songs	Robert L. Hinshaw	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, humorous,
	The Texas Poet Two Step	Jerry T Curtis	Lyric	Lyric	abilene, change, how i feel,
	A Cowboy Poet	Robert L. Hinshaw	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene,
	Texas Time In A Texas Town	Warner Baxter	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, city, culture, drink, football,
	Nuthin' Else To Do	Jack Clark	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, adventure, best friend, car,
	Buck's Five Dollar Saddle	Robert L. Hinshaw	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene,
	Cowboy Poet	Robert L. Hinshaw	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene,
	Gunfight in old Abilene	Richard D Seal	Free verse	Free verse	abilene, cowboy-western, old, horse, old,
	The Chipmunk Kid	Carol Eastman	Light Verse	Light Verse	abilene, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous,
	An Evenin' At The Long Branch Saloon	Robert L. Hinshaw	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, cowboy-western,
	An Example of a Trample	Charles Sides	Quatrain	Quatrain	abilene, history, sports, school, football,
	Mary the Truckin' Queen	Cherie Durbin	Rhyme	Rhyme	abilene, on work and working
	Cattle Trail Drives	Danny Nunn	I do not know?	I do not know?	abilene, cowboy-western
	Faces In the Fire	Glen Enloe	Cowboy	Cowboy	abilene, cowboy-western, death, introspection, loss,

Abilene Poem Example

Gunfight in old Abilene

              Gunfight in old Abilene

With his hat drawn way down, reins loose in his hands
His horse sweating pints, the sun burning down
The dust from the trail was choking his throat
The Abilene sign, said, two miles to go

He rode into town, stared the folk down
He pulled up his horse at the watering trough
All scuttled inside as his boot hit the ground
The word was soon spread, that he was in town

His aim to avenge, a brother who’d died
By hand of a cowpoke, o’er game o’ cards
Known to be cheating and fast with a gun
He’d drawn and fired on unarmed man

Stepped out the poke, with a gun on each side
The stranger he sees with a look in his eye
Some paces they took, no words were exchanged
They stood face to face, staring each down 

Silence it fell, the nerves were of steel
Dust blew around on the faintest of breeze
The desolate street, unreal in the scene
The stranger stood waiting, death in his eye

The air, it was crushed, as the guns they were fired
Bullets passed wild, on wings of hate
A thud, a cry, a hit was made
One fell to the ground, the sun burning down

The dust and the smoke, cleared from the air
Onto the street, the folks gathered round
Amazed at the speed the actions had been
Declaring the duel had seen a fair fight

He mounted his horse, tugged brim of hat, 
His mission complete, justice on course
A man of the old west who never looked back
Where sun had gone down for the poke on the ground

Poem Copyright © Richard D Seal