Best Due West Poems

Five strangers rode into Bodie, a small gold mining town
They didn't look at anybody and kept their heads down
At the Citizens bank they halted, it had been a long ride
Four then entered the bank and one kept watch outside.

The sheriff heard shots and came running,...

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JOE WHITE

Back in 1880 you will find, Joe White he was about.
The Brumby runner master mind. Of this I'll leave no doubt.
He took from Mugan station, 600 Brumbies yes my friend.
Had the best riders of the nation, on which he could depend.
From Mungindi to Sydney...

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Brutality’s Day

There’s been a terrible accident
 A plane rammed into the World Trade Center
What?  Another plane?
The other Tower?
You mean it’s intentional?
 
Me at my desk
Thirty miles due west of downtown Manhattan
That’s how it was all begun
September 11, 2001.

Up my shield.
Emotions not breaking a steely...

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Day one; I leave the coast following the great black river.  Its meandering slow water sneaking slowly and silently past the ancient pines and hardwood trees gathered near its banks like a band of cronies, bent closely in conference, discussing how best to rob...

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Built by Harland and Wolff in the shipyards of Belfast
A luxurious gigantic cruise ship that they built to last
She was an Olympic class liner of the White Star Line
No expense was spared in construction she was grand and so fine.

From Southampton to Cherbourg then from...

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Back in 1880 you will find, Joe White he was about.
The brumby runner master mind. Of this I'll leave no doubt.
He took from Mugan station, 600 brumbies yes my friend.
Had the best riders of the nation, on which he could depend.
From Mungindi to Sydney town,...

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Zephyr,
echo of the eastern wind,
gentle and balmy is thy caress,
your kiss leaves the hardened heart due west;
breath of hope for steely-days,
winds of change whisper fortune,
do they raise the spirits of righteous device,
and speculate to riddance,
of tempests to come,
flee me forever ---
in thy pleasant climes

Spirit of...

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The Shoot Out At The KOA Corral

The continuing saga of Zack Waverly


The mare was to far gone
and I had to put her down
There was nothing I could do
To help her make her back to town
When things have come to this
Life seems barely worth a...

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A meadow of Spring,
due west evergreens peering down;
yonder above snowy Hood....

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I want to go to Idaho
I bet you never knew
And Wyoming… and Hawaii…
Oh, and North Dakota too!!
I’ve been to all the other ones
For once there was a time
When I would tease the pull of Earth
And upwards I would climb
I used to fly those great big...

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WHERE’S    MY    LUNCH,   MUM?

Mum bird’s in nest:
Her small pest wants  
Food  lest it starve.
          
She says, you’d  best
Fly due  west  -  and...

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My thoughts breath, like a wave from the deep,
Some are fleeting and breaking too soon.
Others grow steady, becoming bigger than big,
With all of the help from the moon.

And just like a wave, that's out in the deep,
I can't tell which idea is the best.
My ideas...

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sleeve of heart and head in hand,
blindly pacing, sight and sand.
faces lose all faith and will,
blurred and silent, always still.

one eyed man among the blind could tell the endless lie, 
and all, shy god and insects, miss the falseness of his eye.

anchors weigh the state...

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I received your gift today, as it flew overhead, carried on a wind from the east, a bouquet of red, yellow and blue balloons, tied together with string, could not have been one hundred feet south of my house as they passed, and heading due...

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The Tale of the Bumpalump

After the Knight had unraveled...Flagan decided to travel
    and get away on a long holiday.
He thought it quite grand to visit a new land
    and find a quiet Inn at which he could stay.
He packed...

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