Badlands Poems - Poems about Badlands

Bird of the Badlands

Bird of the Badlands

Who is a Russell?
And what can he be?
A Crow, a Grackle,
or Brewer's like me.

Is he a Raven,
a Warbler, or Dat?
All the same color,
but don't wear a hat.

I'm a Mocking Bird,
however take care.
The things that I say,
can fly through the air.

By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison

Lesson From the Badlands

A hilltop covered in yellow and green 
Reveals secrets long unseen 
A quiet stillness pierces the air 
As nature makes clear that she is still there

A barren landscape, or so it seems 
Void of grass or lakes or streams
Yet if you listen carefully for the sounds
Soon you'll find that life abounds

Upon us did nature this

Into the Badlands

Into the badlands I must flee
escaping those who wish me ill.
Good judgement failed me, now I see,
into the badlands I must flee.
O wretched hand, such villainy
in one rash act that haunts me still -
into the badlands I must flee
escaping those who wish me ill.


Written 3 Nov 2020

Into the Badlands

In these badlands dinosaurs roamed
in the Mesozoic era
till meteor strike dino stoned
in these badlands dinosaurs roamed
now paleontologists bone
remnants of long ago terra
in these badlands dinosaurs roamed
in the Mesozoic era

10/30/2020 Into the Badlands
Sponsor Edward Ibeh

Into the Badlands

Into the Badlands she rode, with spurs lightning fast.
Her chocolate stallion, her wild companion,
slows in the maco sica, a dry and dusty forecast.
Into the Badlands she rode, with spurs lightning fast.
a slim cigarette and weathered face, built to outlast
a South Dakota storm and browbeat Hell’s canyon.
Into the Badlands she rode, with spurs lightning fast
Her chocolate

Into the Badlands

Into the badlands we travel with hearts full of infinite hope.
Ecosystem in this national park fosters four hundred species of life.
Sedimentary layers of pink, tan and white look like soap.
Into the badlands we travel with hearts full of infinite hope.
Oglala Lakota people named it land bad as they learned to cope.
Ghost dances are performed there

Into the Badlands

In the incised badlands of my arid life I wander lost,
the footprints disappear in the eroded time’s debris.
The stretch of the last mile still waits to be crossed
in the incised badlands of my arid life. I wander lost
in wilderness, losing your hands, I needed the most
to take me to plateau’s edge as the sun sets

Into the Badlands

Into the Badlands

Into dark realms where death’s delusions ride
Strides the victorious warrior of charity
Grace and solitude in wilderness here abide!

Into dark realms where death’s delusions ride
Torrents of grace wake flowers in reply –
Blooms in wastelands of sand – life to guide!

Into dark realms where death’s delusions ride
Strides the victorious warrior of charity

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Two Cowboys In the Badlands

“Let ‘em loose,” came his bellowing yell,
“I got 3,000 head I gotta to sell,
Goin' 1,000 miles in weather that's hell,
You're all gonna sweat and all gonna smell”-

The boss’s eyes on ten cowboys did lay,
With disdain in his words he smirked to say,
“Keep ‘em cattle rollin', don’t let ‘em stray,
If one ends up missing, you’re all

The Badlands Cowboy

The wild stallion's whinny echos across the harsh, dry canyons,
The sun dries the lands, leaving only cacti,
But the cowboy, strong and proud sits on his mighty stallion,
The king of the Badlands,
The coyote whimper as he passes,
The snakes slither away at his step,
All bow to him,
King of the Badlands.

Cowboys In the Badlands

Out west, near Black Hills, over South Dakota way,
On land where layered rocks records eons before –
Some thieves rode the badlands that hot steamy day.

Rough riding rustlers raided a ranch; stole a boar.
Those thieves took, tackle, grain, food, and wine grapes.
Two rife and rifled cowboys planned to settle the score!

Rugged and fearless with sweat on

Cowboys In the Badlands

Cowboys in the Badlands 

Out West, across the great divide
great open spaces oceans wide.
Beauty in these badlands does hide
everything fights us as we ride.

Last stop, was exciting wild Abilene
shot an hombre that was very mean.
Watched him bleed as he slowly died
his gal held him and loudly she cried.

Before, she had sworn love to me
next his

The Badlands of Arizona

The wilderness in Arizona during cowboy days was for the adventurous to journey far away from their home front into the great divide where wolves and coyotes could take their lives.  They were skilled hunters and master trappers that could spot a prairie dog close ready to go up their trousers.  With two

Cowboys In the Badlands

The two Cowboys stood at the cliff of a great divide.
Jacob stood, starring across the opening with Bill still
in his saddle, close by his side. The rocky scene was like
A kaleidoscope, every color, ever known.
Is there any other place you would rather be Bill?
Bill said, No Jacob, I don't believe so.
Jacob slowly, climbed back on

Cowboys In Badlands

Hey, buddy, Bob! Now the time is different
It is not what it used to be.
The days of the drives and roundups
The campfire, the smell of beans burning.
Pointing gun at someone to get
Some biscuits, tobacco or fruits
Those little comforts to grab.

Look there, over and down the hills
There are habitats and villages
There are signals and sign boards
Neon

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