Best Wyoming Poems

After the Gold Rush, the lawless boom town went cold
The Emperor of Wyoming broke camp and left
But love will keep him searching for a Heart of Gold
The Needle And the Damage Done left him bereft

The Emperor of Wyoming broke camp and left 
The Loner went...

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He's a versatile "man of all trades,"
pursues anything new, virtually self-made.
He's a photographer, a minister and a poet,
immerses himself totally but before you know it

he's off and running, tackling something new
He's built homes, cell towers, churches, boss of the crew.
He publishes books, serves as president...

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It’s a Wyoming winter--there’s snowflakes and sleet coming down,
The cowboy is hiding away from the trouble in town.

Now, the gambler he cheated the cowboy of wages,
With cards that he chose to conceal,
So the cowboy he pulled out a pistol and shot it,
And the gambler, he...

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open plains,sparse grass
the winter chills,making splash
the news carrie's through...

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They wait, deep down in the red earth,
covered from the yellow, Wyoming sun,
like Tom Horn, a while ago, 
but deeper than he, not the same, 
they wouldn’t kill for fun, 

and the bored army busies itself beneath; 
their mind-numbing  repetition unclear, 
but the fear,...

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I see my darling
Why I have chosen to live here
For it is here I will be closer
To you and God and my family, dear....

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A man of Wyoming ate cantaloupe                 
While watching some galloping antelope       
To his aunt he said       ...

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The road went straight on
With the ribbon drifting as a heavenly song
They call it the “Road to Heaven” going up high
Stop and look at how it leaves the earth for the sky
So in your wandering take a look to see
I80 in Wyoming in Utah you’ll...

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intense intimate direct
                     all over art
arrested moments
of
the
energetic flamboyant
purpose filled
              flings

a surfeit
    of emotional energy
in controlled
          abandonment
of...

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Somebody said that in Wyoming
That a body could recover from
The N.Y. blues that leave your soul so dry

I bid farewell to Montauk
And the sadness in her eyes
Knowing somehow that I never
Would return.
Now the skies over Green River
Somehow are not that different
And the losing end remains...

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Twenty-one years old,
or should I say young,
with the fair coloring and
grace of a trumpeting swan.
Youth of intellect and
a goodness.

He attended an LGBTQ+ meeting
on the campus of the
University of Wyoming on
October 6, 1998,
afterwards he dropped by
the Fireside Bar for a drink.

Two malevolent men lured
him from the...

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There is a wrinkle in Wyoming
A sparkling fold in Old Japan
There’s a crease in Alabama
North Carolina has lost a man.

Iowa’s cornfield are all on fire
And Georgia has slipped away in the sea
Bolivia is under siege, feeling dire.
Puerto Rico’s colors have turned gray as can be.

There...

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Wyoming is the open road
Miles of light blue sky
Tumble weeds
Cacti

Wyoming is hours and hours
Without seeing other cars 
Without seeing animals
Without seeing people

We stopped at a fancy motel there once.
They had the best gift shop.
I bought myself a long brown wool coat
With white galloping horses around...

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Wyoming sure lacks common sense
To believe in Trump, but not Pence!
A bankrupt and liar
Can prey like a friar
Wyoming is spacious yet dense!...

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Ten Thousand Feet


Have you ever had a snowball fight

Shorts, feet naked in cold snow,

Mid July?


Unexpected island of white surrounded

By endless hues, tiny alpine flowers

Cupped in the palm of the great grey Grand Tetons.


Thin air made it a short lived delight… at the time.

The dissonance of...

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