Best It's A One Horse Town Poems

One Horse Town


The boardwalks full of people only two stood in the street.
The showdown of the century counting down to thirty feet.

Black Bart said this...

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Chorus
Sights are far but our minds are close
two hearts share one inhale with one nose
stage acts are for her even the pose
smiles from down she...

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Sittin' on the front porch with a brand new lover
Twinkle in her eye and the moon above her

I said,"What you thinkin'? -Something you could share?"
She...

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(sorry, Tirzah, I could not do a nice long poem on horses.
I just felt like doing some silly limericks playing off expressions
for horses. Thanks for...

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(Apologies to any cowboys in Derbyshire)

The telegraph came through, but just in time
before my coach had passed the county line
mah girl wuz all alone and...

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Well I'm a heading back to NEW ORLEANS
Tonight, gotta get out of this one horse town
And back to Bourbon street where the night
Life is hot...

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Broke the bank yesterday on my brand new ride,
Bright midnight blue with golden yellow sides,
Bringin’ it home for me and my baby to drive;
Breakin’ outa...

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Games Some People Play

After all I've lost along the way
there's no need to think things over.
Gone are all but memories
of things I can't recover.

Actions running...

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I am so wild, I carelessly run around
I am the last horse in a one horse town
I'm as wild as wild can be
I have zero...

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They said “La Coquille is beautiful” they led me on, they lied,
It's nothing but a one horse town and now the horse has died.
It sits...

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rodeos and one night stands
    whiskey drinkin' and heart breakin'
every girls knight in shining armor
    horse ridin' and cattle...

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Wish I had a time machine
I'd go back, change everything
Try again to make you stay
I'd go back and found a way

But I'm stuck here in...

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Where do they come from these tears laced with salt
They rush like rivers or squeeze out in drops
They measure emotions and assign fault
In a mad...

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Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving...

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I've dragged this here bag of gold
it seems a thousand miles,
no rain, no water, no food to eat,
just stagnant pools that look like bile
and a...

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