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Bonney Poems - Poems about Bonney

Premium Member William H Bonney Therapy
...I myself kind of find this hard to believe, but Billy the Kid, aka William H Bonney, this long dead figure of American history, often helps me therapeutically. Whenever I find myself super depres......

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Categories: bonney, depression, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yesterday In Billy the Kid History - April 28, 1881
..."Hello Bob!" were the very last words that Deputy Robert M Ollinger heard just before he got blown away by William H Bonney, during the Kid's greatest escape.......

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Categories: bonney, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member John Miller and the Kid
...John Miller and William H Bonney, are both one and the same apparently, at least that's what John Miller would claim occasionally, but never when he was sober, drunk only. John Miller and The......

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Categories: bonney, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After the Escape
...It was a few days after the Kid's great escape, when the following happened to Sherriff Pat Garrett's dismay. A stranger rode in to the town of Lincoln, with the same horse that the Kid stole for ......

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Categories: bonney, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thekidster and the Kid
...He watched his mother, his mentor and three of his best friends die right before his eyes. His mother died of TB very slowly, and when she slipped away he was there at her bedside. John Tunstall......

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Categories: bonney, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member John Tunstall and the Kid
...The Kid had been arrested along with The Boys and Jesse Evans. All were being charged with cattle rustling. It was John Tunstall's livestock that had been stolen, and he intended to press charges ......

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Categories: bonney, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hello Bob
..."Hello Bob!" were the very last words, that Deputy Robert M Ollinger heard, just before he got blown away, by William H Bonney, during the Kid's greatest escape.......

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Categories: bonney, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Escape Goats
...Escape Goats Just good old' kids, Never meaning any harm, Been in trouble since they were born. Straightening' the corners, Flattening' the curbs and crushing pebbles. Someday the hills......

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Categories: bonney, adventure, betrayal, bullying, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jesse Evans and the Boys and the Kid
...Jesse Evans and The Boys earned much notoriety during the old west's most untamed and wild history. Raiding resturants and salloons they would drink and eat for free. "Chalk it up!" they'd say to ......

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Categories: bonney, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Duerme Bien Querido Guillermo
...When you compare the facts with the tales of his legend, you'll find that most stories of his life are pure fabrication. He is known worldwide for his killer marksmanship with a gun, but few know ......

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Categories: bonney, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Charming Billy, Billy Bonney
...He shot a man in Arizona so Billy's riding hard tonight. He had to leave Fort Grant City because he killed a bully in broad daylight. Billy's heading back from where he came from, back to old New Mex......

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Categories: bonney, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Kid's Brother
...Billy the Kid had a brother whose name was Joe and after the Kid's death he let everyone know that he would kill Pat Garrett unmercifully on sight for killing his brother on that mournful night. Joe ......

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Categories: bonney, fantasy, history, me, brother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Cowboy Is
...The movements of others to far away lands Drifted into American folklore, within histories hands Fur trappers they started many centuries ago In a country to become as the years truly flowed ......

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Categories: bonney, angst, history, life, loss,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Sheriff and the Brother
...Both of their eyes locked hard on one another. The sheriff needed to talk with this grieving, vengeful brother. "Have a seat and a drink with me," the sheriff said to him. "I need to explain to yo......

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Categories: bonney, cowboy-westernwrite, brother, old, brother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member "why Are You Smiling?"
...Judge Bristol passed his sentence with the following words and said, "The said William Bonney, alias Kid, alias William Antrim shall be hanged by the neck until his body be dead, Dead, DEAD!!!" Bi......

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Categories: bonney, funny, history,
Form: Rhyme

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