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Deadwood Poems - Poems about Deadwood

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Premium Member Only Slade's Brain
...Tim was the new judge in Deadwood Flat Not really qualified, just a rancher at that He first case was of the outlaw, Horace Slade Caught red handed in a cattle raid The jury took ten minutes to......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, humor, time, western,
Form: Lyric



Ode To The Fifth Kingdom
...Strophe I O mycorrhiza, nature’s internet This internet keeps everything alive Beats out anything Humans thought as yet The natural world around it does thrive II Trees struck by lightning o......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, earth, feelings,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Bone Saw Trifecta
...He chose to play the cheater’s hand. The stakes were worth his manhood. He perished in his paddock boots Like Wild Bill did in Deadwood. The edge of the assassin’s blade Was cold and unforgivi......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, allegory, betrayal, satire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ember
...Oh, my Inglenook my Inglenook a whole life time spent within thee, my name is Ember I create patterns of dancing shadows a need to be stoked constantly. I can be an inhospitable harr......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, senses,
Form: Free verse
There Was Trouble Brewin' In Soup Creek
...As morning glowed pale light over the town of Soup Creek, Jenna woke with a start when she heard a floorboard squeak. She raised her gun and took aim at a shadow near the door, "Hold it right ther......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, poets,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Cohesive and Pure
...In the first blaze of the day's dewy dew tricked. Presently unclaimed, by intense sun acclimated. We fitly step and wantonly break deadwood. Our bones are broken, above than once pe......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sausage, Head Cheese, and Scrapple
...Premiered at The Raven’s Beak, New Orleans, LA – 5/23/2011 Act 1 TRAVELOGUE CAR WITH NO REVERSE IT WEREN’T WORTH TEXAS WAYMORE ON THE PROWL NOTHING BUT A SUNSET THE CLOCK WINKED DEADW......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, allegory, mythology,
Form: List
Premium Member Deadwood
...I'm working off my sins in the usual way, A Cornish knight of no worship, Languishing amid the aroma Of easy women and open bets. Don't tell the boss, but I'd do it for free So long as the ......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, allegory, western,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Redwood
...Redwood, you’re the Shadow secretary? I guess so, he muttered. Not caring that I am of voting age. That’s what they tell me. Preceded by Hunt? Succeeded by Hague? Tell me, did your baby sister......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, international,
Form: Free verse
I Lost No Friend
...Flying high unsighted nose dive unflighted true colours sighted you and I divided When all was well was surrounded by clowns, so when I fell laughter their sound It's all about them......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Deva's Vetoed
...Hot shot in my head writhing the guz let it swim in the round to twirl around the world charm junky paty you can see it Jennifer can't wait can you dusty cobwebs frothing mouth full of hit session d......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, corruption, courage, creation, crush,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who Knows If Magic Exists
...Who knows if magic exists, if dreams come true and whether miracles take place (all of these things we thought we knew) ... buried in our haste to dig childhood's grave... And though someth......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, appreciation, beauty, family, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member There Came a Season
...There came a season when dark loneliness wrapped around my soul and held tight to the chill of my desire leaving me a draught wormwood that lay rotting in the murky ground...of time passing a ......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Soured and Faded
...and now, colour blots whitewash on blanched wall; yesterday distanced from today’s gale—on the facade, from where, towards the end, faced face down time’s row in anticlockwise retrogression; the begi......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, black love, break up,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Deadwood
...A living forest, Where chirping birds chorale and Butterflies whispers, Beyond my styled wood door, and Timbered home of nailed panels. Date: 04/28/2019......Read the rest...
Categories: deadwood, analogy, conflict, deep, earth
Form: Tanka

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