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Best Outlaws Poems

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Premium Member Angels and Outlaws
Come and sit here by the fire
Watch the flickering firelight
Let me touch your lips with mine
Will you keep me warm tonight

I've been here reminiscing
Just feeling...

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Categories: outlaws, cowboy-western, life, love, me,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Outlaws' Spirits In Tombstone
Each day in Tombstone as tourists watch
The OK Corral gunfight plays out
Reenactments staged by the locals
The Earps always prevail in this bout

Saunter down to the...

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Categories: outlaws, cowboy-western, history, mysteryold, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Milton Creek, Another Chapter
The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking...

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Categories: outlaws, america, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outlaws, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jailbreak At Milton Creek
There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail...

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Categories: outlaws, america, humor, violence,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Robin and His Merry Men's Night Out
Robin treated his men down at the inn
To sexy wenches, food, mead and some gin
All got drunk on the mead
Then got high on the weed
Friar...

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Categories: outlaws, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Bodie Lynchings
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...

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Categories: outlaws, america, death, horse, judgement,
Form: Narrative
I Used To Be a Dreamer
I used to be a dreamer
Growing up within my mind,
I was no heavy sleeper
By creativity confined

I used to be a hero
One day, and then the...

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© Christy Np  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outlaws, childhood, dream, freedom, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Big John
Let me tell you a story from the old wild-west;
Of a terrible lawman with a star on his vest.
His title was “Ranger”; not bound to...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outlaws,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Stagecoach
I took my periodic stroll through the local antique store today.
There were the usual horse collars, clocks and various sundries on display.
Havin' no need fer...

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Categories: outlaws, cowboy-western, old, horse, old,
Form: Rhyme
The Brother In-Law Part I
The brother In - Law  Part I

A long time ago, there lived a young couple. 
They were very much in love. About a year...

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Categories: outlaws, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Evolutionary Sequel - Full Circle
Act 1: Earth

Water
Droplets fall to earth
Meniscus lens on the world -
Wellspring of life born

Air
Gaseous brew forms
Invisible elixir - 
A breath of fresh air

Fire
Destructive, cleansing
But giver...

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Categories: outlaws, animal, earth, environment, fire,
Form: Haiku
A Cowboy Is
The unsung heroes of the open plains
The outlaw bandits like Jesse James 

Cut throat thieves and black jack hustlers 
Green horn Cowboys and long horn...

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Categories: outlaws, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member True Grit
My  name is Mattie Ross and I hail from Yell County
In the state of Arkansas living, on a ranch with family
At the age of...

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Categories: outlaws, america, death, loss, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger would come to save the day
            With his trusted sidekick Tonto...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outlaws, friend,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs