AOC for Empress
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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
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
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
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
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
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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