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The Bun Fight at The OK Carrol

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The Earp brothers all gathered, and stood in a row with their own large tashes
Along with Doc Holliday, thought they would give the cowboys a good bashing

Doc Holliday, under the cover of his c...

Categories: clanton, humorous, write,
Form: Couplet

Its Three O Clock and Its O K

...“You’re a daisy if you do.”

Doc Holliday

ITs THREE O CLOCK AND ITs O K

     the local joke
    a triple homicide
   in thirty seconds
can see pale faces
through the coffi...

Categories: clanton, conflict,
Form: Light Verse

Tomboy

...Years before 13th birthday
Sun beckons me run play
In the street under golden ray
With neighborhood kids on hills of clay

Learning to ride bike and skate
Playing kickball run chase
Playing fo...

Categories: clanton, america, appreciation, basketball, black
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Three Limericks

...KELLY AND MULDOON

Kelly and Muldoon went to rob a bank
Both had been drinking all day and they stank
They sat counting the money
Folks thought it was so funny
When police hauled them of...

Categories: clanton, humor,
Form: Limerick

The Darkness At Noon

...The Darkness at Noon

Tombstone never looked so good
With doomsday coming down 
On the dusty Arizona town
The OK Corral near by 
The Clanton-McLaury gang on hand
With no one else about
The Ea...

Categories: clanton, celebrity, history, nostalgia, strength,
Form: Epic

I Could

...Sitting here casually thinking to myself, wanting to pen something new,
I visualize that I could easily write about anything.

I could write about you and the way her smile sparkles so brilliantly...

Categories: clanton, imagination, visionarywrite, write, ,
Form: Light Verse

Westward Ho'

...In the 1600's, Europeans lived on the eastern shore
Their numbers grew, they wanted more.
Iroquios, Sauk, Ottawa, and Mohawk were tribes they met
Too many and more, paid our forefathers' debt.
Me...

Categories: clanton, adventure, cowboy-western, history, native
Form: Rhyme

Outlaws' Spirits In Tombstone

...Each day in Tombstone as tourists watch
The OK Corral gunfight plays out
Reenactments staged by the locals
The Earps always prevail in this bout

Saunter down to the Bird Cage Theater
Now a mus...

Categories: clanton, cowboy-western, history, mysteryold, bird,
Form: Rhyme