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Annie Oakley Poems - Poems about Annie Oakley

Premium Member AOC for Empress
... She's magisterial material Though she's not on a box of cereal 'Tomorrow' she's sung Her curly locks stun Annie Oakley (Cortez) ~ imperial......

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Categories: annie oakley, hair, song, uplifting,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Buffalo Bill Tries Hard
...she was homely and plain Buffalo Bill dressed her poster up, pretending pretty the men would not come to watch her shoot if they knew the truth about Annie Oakley......

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Categories: annie oakley, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Annie Oakley and Me
...I think Annie is going to shoot me. She smiles and winks; this is what she does best, the little lady is deadly accurate and pert with it. She takes aim. "Right ear." She says. Bang! Her Winc......

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Categories: annie oakley, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When I Was a Kid
...When I was a kid I rode Saturdays on My Friend Flicka Sky King Roy Rogers And Flicka’s boy And Sky And Roy Hauled bad guys Off to justice Never seen again Never Never Never seen again ......

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Categories: annie oakley, anger, child abuse, gender,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Annie Oakley
...Annie Oakley was quite a good marksman, And it's actually how she met her husband. She'd astound heads of state, And even her mate, She couldn't be beat as a marksman.......

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Categories: annie oakley, history,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Don'T Throw Me Away
...You look at me so uninviting; I may have some missing teeth, stumble when I walk, bout' to FALL!!! Stutter when I talk, but yet I'll still call; Might smell like ole mothballs or mint or m......

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Categories: annie oakley, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Ballade
Annies Gun
...“Never trust your life behind a cheap gun” - Annie Oakley Annie, has a heavy heart. But also a light heart one that shines in the sun. and regardless light or dark, Annie’s bright heart will......

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Categories: annie oakley, america, history, metaphor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member My Best Friend, the Lesbian
...My very best friend is a lesbian, not bisexual, she is not at all attracted to men. There is nothing butch about her, she is absolutely stunning. When I look at her I often wish that I was a lesbi......

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Categories: annie oakley, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Pioneers
...Echos of long past haunt my thoughts as the verdant valley stretches before my light dazzled eyes I imagine the pioneers forging ahead and what I see now are the remains of these trails they ......

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Categories: annie oakley, cowboy-western,
Form: Free verse
Doozies and Whozies of the Wild-Wild West! Synopsis (For Deborah's Contest)
...Eighteen hundred and three begins U.S. destinies. Merriwether Lewis and his comrade, William Clark, agrees – They will go forth, avoid Frenchmen, fighting growling grizzlies. To find a water trade......

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Categories: annie oakley, adventure, cowboy-western, history, men,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member My Spittoon
...My oldest possession is a spittoon My spittoon goes back a ways into history Where it originated is a bit of a mystery It has a bullet hole right aboutOhere I’m told that Buffalo Bill Co......

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Categories: annie oakley, fantasy
Form: Concrete
Annie Oakley
...a little girl with braids a-flyin a stick pony without a head righting the wrongs of childhood when others don't play along I rope my brother, tie him down make him the bad guy, make him frown......

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Categories: annie oakley, childhood
Form: Free verse
Little Miss Sure-Shot
...Pretty funny name for a girl—her name traveled ‘round the world, “little Miss Sure=Shot” they called her everywhere. She sure shootin’ earned her fame—“Annie Oakley” was her other name— She blaste......

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Categories: annie oakley, history
Form: Ballad
Little Miss Sure-Shot
...Pretty funny name for a girl—her name traveled ‘round the world, “little Miss Sure-Shot” they called her everywhere. She sure shootin’ earned her fame—“Annie Oakley” was her other name— She blaste......

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Categories: annie oakley, history
Form: Lyric
Woman of Honor
...Erma Bombeck, Words of Wisdom. Coretta Scott King, Peace and Reason. Rosa Parks, Stood Victorious! Betsy Ross, Our Nations Seamstress. Mother Mary, Bore Jesus in Bethlehem. Harriet Tubman, Lead ......

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Categories: annie oakley, adventure, black african american,
Form: Free verse

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