Calamity Jane
A voice from a woman that has emotional depth and concern for humanity is often shunned through strong arming of sources to discredit her psychological state.
If you steal from a children’s cancer research foundation, and laugh about grabbing women by the pussies then how will humanity survive?
The democratic state of America has been burned and
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Categories:
calamity jane, fear,
Form: Free verse
Calamity Jane
Martha Jane Cannary,
For her time was quite contrary.
A hard drinking, sharp shootin' gal,
Who dressed like a man and whose language was foul.
7/24/21
For Brian Strand's July 24 Poetry Contest
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Categories:
calamity jane, america, celebrity, western, woman,
Form: Clerihew
Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane the adventuress,
Lived and died hard under stress.
She could drink, smoke and shoot,
Out rode most galoots,
Men had to admit she's the best.
Calamity had a kind heart.
with her money she'd freely part.
If she could help,
Why not 'cause she felt,
She might help someone make a new start.
Calamity dressed like a man,
And most folks did not understand,
But
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Categories:
calamity jane, history,
Form: Rhyme
Calamity Jane
Everyone was staring
Frozen in their seat
Down the stairs
Made quite an entrance
Calamity Jane
Without her underwear
Her buxom figure
Generously in full view
For everyone to see
Down the stairs
All watched Calamity Jane
In her birthday suit
The whole incident
Might have gone unnoticed
But no such luck
Frozen in their seat
Mouth wide open
Everyone just stared
Down the stairs so clumsily
Had I not tripped
No doubt we could
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Categories:
calamity jane, woman,
Form: Free verse
Calamity Jane
She makes the whip go poppin’,
Her pistol shots are heart stoppin’,
Woman of romance, grit and fame,
Wild Lady of Heart, Calamity Jane.
She’s history, wrapped up in mystery,
And she lives the life she loves,
Taking with innocent gratefulness,
The gifts from God above.
Listen to her stories,
And you can
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Categories:
calamity jane, cowboy-western, people, song-heart, heart,
Form: Cowboy Poetry