Best High Noon Poems

Tex’s shadow defines him—cut-out 
from the heat haze of Karnak’s quartz, 
a scintillating contrast to Egypt’s questing sun.
He slouches among the other black castings of 
denser composition mottled with grays, 
and Prussian blues, incongruent in a cowboy
hat. This six-gun scenario’s frame
disrupts the crafted precision of...

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Which Cowboy bites dust tomorrow at noon,
Fighting duel to end, to death the tune,
The sun at noon shows no glare,
Bystanders, time of day fair,
Outside the saloon, a hot day in June.

Poetry Competition Entry: HIGH NOON POETRY CONTEST
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Cowboys facing off, feet spread wide 
One thing in mind, shoot his raw hide 
Blast rips, so it seems 
Oh no ! freakin' beans 
Now all showdowns, are aired outside 


High Noon Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May
How many syllables 8/8/5/5/8
04/05/22...

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This classic Western, stars Gary Cooper as Will Kane, a newly married man whose wife is a Quaker pacifist. The murderer-outlaw is coming into town at noon to kill his nemesis. 

High Noon
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The whistle of the train, threats coming soon.
Kane’s courage off the track on...

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There was an old cowboy named Stumpy 
Who's laugh sounded just like a donkey
He smelled like a skunk
High noon he'd get drunk
And then with the ladies got frisky...

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The western days said hang them at noon                                     ...

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with six guns hanging
walked in saloon at high noon
outlaws backed their coats

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© All Rights Reserved

Author’s Comments:   The traditional Japanese Senryu format has three lines as 
follows:  the first has five syllables, the second seven syllables, and the third five 
syllables....

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A washed-up Bank robber named Big Dale
Tried to rob bank, near county of vale
                He didn’t move as quick
           ...

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It came to pass that in Bethlehem, Judah
God sent a famine with problems most  severe.
Mother  Naomi and her three men maneuver
to strike out in sync, to leave their home sphere.
Death by starvation was, of course, their main fear.

It came to pass that in...

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High Noon in Downtown Chicago
	
		St. Peter's in the Loop

Two minutes more, Father Cal,
and you will hear another 
of my strange confessions.
Right now, I'm outside
watching the rain on my glasses
running in rills.
Once inside I'll confess
the usual stuff
with a few variations,
none essential, 
all accidental, 
the same plot,...

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The two men stood in the dusty street,
it was inevitable that they should meet,
suddenly one of them slumped to his knees,
justice had provided one of life' s certainties.

The Marshal strode towards his adversary,
kicked the gun on the ground away slowly,
I went to a party and...

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squirrels quarrelling
            a large scurry  going nuts 
              shells land everywhere 


A STRAND (1065) Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
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High Noon Antics

High noon, the time was set upon this arid, sultry day
The guns would set against the other, quick-draw style
In speedy rivalry and bid to have their final say
With keen eyed rapid movement versatile

This Western town could not contain two greats
Fanned were the flames...

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Tis the late June day
Which bring flocks
Their subconscious intentions
Obfuscated by the lingering dimensions
Flaccid ideals and breezes
Traversing gingerly through
The ancient elms
Seeded by the pulps of history
They pray, with each scrape
Of their prescient footsteps
For the sparkle, the brilliance
Those ghostly matters provide in perpetuity
The heat emanating from yearnings
Executed...

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. . . high noon sun

           locust chomps

                 own shadow . . ....

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