The Colors of the Half Man Half Beast
...A sketch of cimarron
shades: an appollyon emerges,
her spectre arms reach
like the charcoal bones
of the wild, the webbed trees.
Their silhouette absorbed
into the night clasp
the edge o...
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Categories:
cimarron, allah, allusion, angst, color,
Form: Haiku
Oscar-Ku 4 -Cimarron
...boom town of Osage,
the Oklahoma land rush. . .
first western to win
Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...
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Categories:
cimarron, conflict, film, , western,
Form: Haiku
Cowboy Howdy the Clown Goes Home
...Cowboy Howdy the Clown still goes
To town with ten little shoes on his toes
Purple hair and a square blue nose
Ten grey flowers for Cimarron Rose
An itty bitty teeny weeny cowboy hat
Vaquero ch...
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Categories:
cimarron, animal, home, humorous, nursery
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Dustbowl Breakdown
...I got wed in twenty-two.
Took this place with mortgage, new.
Built a fence around my land,
plowed that grass with my own bare hands.
Planted collards, corn and beans.
Prettiest spread you ev...
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Categories:
cimarron, history,
Form: Couplet
Big John Wayne In Cowboys Pleiades C
...“Cowboys” , big John Wayne starred.
Cowhands abandon him.
Call, joining the Goldrush.
Could greenhorn kids succeed.
Camp cook and chuck wagon,
Complete the trail crew drive.
Cow punching green ...
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Categories:
cimarron, bereavement, children, teen, ,
Form: Pleiades
Cimarron Sky
...In the distance of the Cimarron desert
clouds mound in peach hues as the horizon they skirt.
Hot smoldering parched winds whirl along the ground
clasping all dew and moisture all around.
Cactus i...
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Categories:
cimarron, life, mystery, nature, time,
Form: Free verse
The Crossing
...Cresting the rise, a glare in his eyes.
Squinting as sharp shards of sun
reflect off the river.
His gloved hand instinctively shadows his face.
Dust in the wind, talcum powder thin
coating, ca...
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Categories:
cimarron, cowboy-western,
Form: Cowboy Poetry