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Calamity Jane
She makes the whip go poppin’, 
Her pistol shots are heart stoppin’, 
Woman of romance, grit and fame, 
Wild Lady of Heart, Calamity Jane. 
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Categories: calamity jane, cowboy-western, people, song-heart, heart,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane the adventuress,
Lived and died hard under stress.
She could drink, smoke and shoot,
Out rode most galoots,
Men had to admit she's the best.

Calamity had a...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: calamity jane, history,
Form: Rhyme
Quacking Crackers
Donald Duck Chancellor of this fowl kingdom 
wearing an upside down smile's raging hypocrite backwards 
this deranged Duck twitters to and fro as his unhinged...

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Categories: calamity jane, anger, conflict, fear, irony,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Quacking Crackers
Donald Duck Chancellor of this fowl kingdom 
wearing an upside down smile's raging hypocrite backwards 
this deranged Duck twitters to and fro as his unhinged...

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Categories: calamity jane, abuse, betrayal, conflict, deep,
Form: Political Verse
Illegal Immigrants
This poem was written after I took a tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Wyoming, the site of Custer's Last Stand.

It was...

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Categories: calamity jane, history, immigration,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member The 50 Move Rule
"The 50 Move Rule"



Thomas Crown 
rolled his smile 
around her frown

Romance blew a warm breath
over her pristine cowrie shell
Voodoo Mojo Bag

There, 
just there, 
an Ocean...

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Categories: calamity jane, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge

Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous.  Such was the...

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Categories: calamity jane, bird, family,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill

Stood in the rain and caught a chill

Was very ill and in some pain

He moaned and groaned…"This is a calamity, Jane!!"...

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Categories: calamity jane, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, history, people
Form: Clerihew
Gene and Gilda
Star crossed champions of mirth
Wild hair and wild eyes, both 
To the world they say with arms raised to the sky, 
"What a pity, for...

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Categories: calamity jane, funny, goodbye, love, world,
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...

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Categories: calamity jane, adventure, cowboy-western, history, men,
Form: Monorhyme
The Lone Ranger, Tad & Me
Riding the quarter slot pony
at Woolworth’s five & dime
Would send this half pint cowgirl
back to another time

I was Calamity Jane riding hell bent
to bring the...

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Categories: calamity jane, childhood, cowboy-western, imagination, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Ballad of Cat Ballou - Part 2
The Ballad of Cat Ballou (Continued) 
 
With her outlaw gang they're now telling a story of how she rode the plains.
The wildest gal in...

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Categories: calamity jane, cowboy-westerncat, cat, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dramatic Monologue By a Coldcocked Husband
*original poem follows the Dramatic Monologue

Dramatic Monologue by a Coldcocked Husband

Yes, you know my wife is nuts,
no ifs, but oh her butt.
Mercilessly, I fell hard
for...

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Categories: calamity jane, betrayal, death, humor, love
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Two Days of Doris Day
The weekend is here again
And if I have my way
I'm going to spend my spare time
Watching films starring Doris Day

In nineteen forty nine
Ten years before...

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Categories: calamity jane, nostalgia, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Genuis Or Criminal
 Is It Deplorable
And Does It make me Criminal?
If I used my Genius
To become Felinous
As I was craving to become your Ethos

All that I Did
Was...

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Categories: calamity jane, introspection, love, me,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things