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Best Wyatt Poems

Below are the all-time best Wyatt poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wyatt poems written by PoetrySoup members


Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
knew how to snag a gun totin' perp,
loved the ladies, but never liquor.
He was a habitual ice cream licker! 

For Kim's Cleri-who?...

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Categories: wyatt, history, silly,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member Pee Yew- Collaboration
Yesterday I was in a little funk
because I got peed on by a big skunk
          ...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wyatt, humor,
Form: Limerick
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...

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Categories: wyatt, america, appreciation, celebration, fun,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
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: wyatt, cowboy-western, history, mysteryold, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old West
Lord what I'd give to go back in time.
Meet historical legends Wyatt Earp,
 Or Jessie James, let them leap off 
The written page, and live...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wyatt, death, fantasy, freedom, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member New Friends- Nursery Rhyme
Little Jake wanted to build a spaceship,
so he could make new friends on Mars.
Kids here were mean; he planned a cool trip 
each night he...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wyatt, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Funny Dreams
I have sworn off women 
but I can't control my dreams
Beyoncé and Rihanna are trying to corrupt me
At least that's the way it seems ....

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Categories: wyatt, funny,
Form: Verse
Ringo's Last Ride
It’s way back in the eighties, of  the eighteenth century,
the bad man Johnny Ringo, did stalk Arizona free,
from Lukeville  to Sonoro, he dealt...

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Categories: wyatt, dark, evil, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Westerns of Tv Land
I was watching the TV the other day
When a certain Rerun began to play.
It brought me back to one of my brain's stifled bans
Because it...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wyatt, hero, memory, remember, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Letter About My Friend
To Whom it may concern:

I have known him since birth and beyond.  I also knew his parents who were very Godly people in a...

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Categories: wyatt, friendship love, god, love,
Form: Personification
Arizona Star
Heat waves dancing atop the freshly laid pavement
Sun burning up skin and crimping our eyes
Flies trying to get in, but I can't save them
Poor little...

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Categories: wyatt, identity, pride,
Form: Free verse
Tombstone
Take my heart to Tombstone,
Away from hill and tree,
Sell my horse to injuns
But give the saddle free

Outside haunts a spectre,
He has his eye on me,...

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Categories: wyatt, history, obituary,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Cinderella's Slipper -Fractured Canzone-
Cinderella lost her slipper 
while she ran away from the ball 
tripped on a step, had nasty fall, 
her wicked step-sister hit her 
and got...

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Categories: wyatt, art, humor, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Canzone
Premium Member For the Love of a Hat
Three girls weathered the Arizona heat
Ranch hands distributed straw cowboy hats
Without them we’d have fallen to sun’s defeat
As our horses bounded through desert flats
Far faster...

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Categories: wyatt, cowboy-western, funnyday,
Form: Quintain (English)
1960
It was the start of a decade not to be forgotten.

It was my growing up period.  A very bad year for me

in many ways....

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Categories: wyatt, nostalgia, school, football, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things