Guitar Gringo
...He stepped down from the stagecoach kicking dust up with his boot
He stood a while, he lacked a smile, his teeth gripped his cheroot
His Stetson it was thick with dust, his guitar case was too
He...
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Categories:
cheroot, western,
Form: Lyric
Back Passage Billy
...I'd chosen you as my flunky -
Your hair - Neanderthal red,
You'd hurry towards my shrill calling,
De-cloth me and roll me to bed.
'Textured', you woo-ed, 'mild and creamy',
Said I'd never last...
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Categories:
cheroot, abuse, age, courage, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Mad Molly Shaw
...This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar
She walked into town wi...
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Categories:
cheroot, western,
Form: Rhyme
Snake Oil Justice
...Carson Elkund moved slowly through the town,
his eyes darted about, looking around,
looking for trouble he knew was out there,
he was wanted by many, and moved with care.
He had bounties aplent...
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Categories:
cheroot, adventure, conflict, confusion, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Spaghetti - Snack Size For Cowboy Contest
...Smoke signals rise from Sitting Duck cavern
In town the Pitt gang are trashing the tavern
John Wayne strolled in and he ain’t here to dance
They say that he walked like he just sh*t his pants
D...
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Categories:
cheroot, america, humorous, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Spaghetti - a Movie Not Made
...Smoke signals rise from Sitting Duck cavern
In town the Pitt gang are trashing the tavern
John Wayne strolled in and he ain’t here to dance
They say that he walked like he just sh*t his pants
D...
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Categories:
cheroot, america, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Charlie's Cartoon Characters
...CHARLIE'S CARTOON CHARACTERS
Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a far away land, in the land where Charlie lived, there was a group of cartoon characters who felt as though they were the greates...
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Categories:
cheroot, character, children, funny, marriage,
Form: Free verse
The Tale of Billy Flynn
...The Tale of Billy Flynn
Billy Flynn looked skyward
As the fire slowly died
The embers dancing gaily
They had a hard days ride
He looked down at the fire
At the coals and their red glow
"Bett...
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Categories:
cheroot, america, , western,
Form: Epic
Great Balls of Fire
...Sir Henry was smoking cheroot
Stark naked in his birthday suit
But he did something rash
When he's flicking his ash
His pubes are no longer hirsute!
4th May 2015...
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Categories:
cheroot, humorous,
Form: Limerick
He's Smokin'
...Sir Henry was playing his flute
He also was smoking cheroot
But when his attire
Was soon caught on fire
I’m guessing he’s not so astute!
04~18~15
Contest: Famous Einstein Quotes – J...
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Categories:
cheroot, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Once I Was a Prince - Part Three
...Part Three
...swishing away with your sunshrivelled burgundy knotty arms with broad disdainful harvesting sweeps the cobras come out to water in the sweltering heat by the thatched fly-buzzed hole...
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Categories:
cheroot, family, me, water, may,
Form: Free verse
Once I Was Prince - Part One
...for Granny Letchumi (b. fin 19th C. - d. 1978)
Once i was a prince in your highbeamed palm-thatched house
timber and stone
of hardened mud and cold green shiny cement
in your village ribbed wit...
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Categories:
cheroot, family, day, me,
Form: Free verse
Cigars
...Ah! There is nothing, nothing that adds to a gentleman's persona,
Like that of fashionably sporting and puffing a five-dollar Corona!
With a cigar in his jowls, he can socialize with disdainful pre...
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Categories:
cheroot, funny,
Form: Rhyme