Best Round Up Poems
T'Was the Night Before Christmas...
'Twas the night before Christmas, all children were in bed
Elves were loading the sleigh, for Santa's big night ahead
A heavy fall of fresh snow had now covered the ground
The whole world ......
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Categories:
round up, christmas, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Plague...as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! ......
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Categories:
round up, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Compadre...
We’ve shared the trail, kicked up some dust,
An’ stood a storm or two.
We’ve rode the plains, the wide frontier,
The easy trails were few.
You’ve listened like some wise old sage
To ev......
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Categories:
round up, animals, cowboy-western, death, friendship,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Small Gifts God's Work...small gifts -
contributing to other's happiness?
# show me a man or woman of simple mind
people who we commonly term as slow #
point out ====>
people
of simple means<====
the ......
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Categories:
round up, god,
Form:
Free verse
Massacred Nation...The year 1890
December 29th
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
My tribe lost their lives
The USS 7th
On their orders so
To round up the Sioux
Railroad herd them and go
Us Lakota were next
To dis......
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Categories:
round up, native american, war, cousin,
Form:
Rhyme
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging -Part Deux...Dedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from thi......
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Categories:
round up, america, children, family, horse,
Form:
Rhyme
There Was Trouble Brewin' In Soup Creek...As morning glowed pale light over the town of Soup Creek,
Jenna woke with a start when she heard a floorboard squeak.
She raised her gun and took aim at a shadow near the door,
"Hold it right ther......
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Categories:
round up, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860...High noon in Fort Laramie, the summer sun is oppressive.
A whalebone corset digs into my body’s tender parts.
Peering from the shop, my hand touching the pane
of dearly brought glass, I feel the v......
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Categories:
round up, memory,
Form:
Sestina
Wooden Markers..."There was an old cemetery
in that fence row.
Thirty some graves I've heard;
no record of it at the court house."
The neighbor pointed past
the corn rows,
Round Up sterile,
to posts askew......
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Categories:
round up, introspection, life
Form:
Free verse
If I Ruled the World...If I ruled the world,
I'd round up all the men.
Send them to Afghanistan,
...And nuke the place again,
and again.
I'd collect and burn,
All the world's monies
And make sex slaves,
Of all th......
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Categories:
round up, funny, cousin,
Form:
Rhyme
Cowboys, Made of Awesome...Some modern folks, when they hear his name,
will roll their eyes and look ashamed,
thinking the cowboy is uncivilized,
with his hats, and guns, and round-up rides.
That somehow they are beyond th......
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Categories:
round up, america, appreciation, celebration, fun,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Genghis Khan...[ credits to LAURENT YVAN from France who read my poem ]
Launched over ages of primaeval forces
my nomadic ancestry calls out to me
winds howl driven over rolling hills
atop a ridge of rugg......
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Categories:
round up, character, courage, culture, history,
Form:
Free verse
My God Is a Cowboy...My God is a cowboy and even likes to fish
To ride for Him daily is truly my wish
He was born in a barn, rode hard every day
fightin' ole Satan and chasin' down strays
He can calm a stampede, ......
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Categories:
round up, christian,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
No Condemnation...NO CONDEMNATION
Sometimes I wish I can play the anonymous, though
am not autonomous but I've got an anomalous result so far,
like a pilot things keep piling up, cares about where about still
......
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Categories:
round up, gospel,
Form:
Free verse
Friedmaniacs...I now declare war on your regime
Round up your Chicago schoolboys
Who believed in free markets
At the hand of the gun
I'll bring billions
Of people whose
Values died
For your
Game......
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Categories:
round up, angst
Form:
Nonet