The Reynolds Library 'Poetry society meeting exercise'
...In the small town up the road from the farm where I grew up,
the library was in the town hall,
which was also the fire station,
which was also the jail house,
and later the Plumber’s place.
It...
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Categories:
earp, father, father daughter, fathers
Form: Free verse
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...
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Categories:
earp, humorous, write,
Form: Couplet
Our World of Yesterday
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Petal-pushers and hula hoops
‘Greasy Kid Stuff’ – smear on the goop
Baseball card gum that tastes like rubber
That amazing stuff called ‘flubber’
Dino the Dinosaur and th...
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Categories:
earp, fun, games, nostalgia, today,
Form: Couplet
A Cowboy and His Thoughts On Dodge City
...A Cowboy And His Thoughts On Dodge City
In the razor whip and faster gun
the flaming sun, the fertile fields
the rose-felt day
I walked alone
along the barren street
beneath b...
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Categories:
earp, character, conflict, history, imagery,
Form: Verse
The Last True Sheriff of the Wild West
...He was old and haggard, in the year nineteen twenty something
A tall lanky old man, with a worn out hat and a rusty ring
His squint blues eyes pulled together the wrinkles upon his face
With an ex...
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Categories:
earp, america, career, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Sheriff of Milt Creek
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Up in Sh*t Creek up his own fat butthole
the law is an ass and he’s out of control.
He calls himself sheriff
but I just call him Griff
and he’s a real fuktard and a fugly troll!
Like...
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Categories:
earp, fun, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Agenda
..."Again... I apologize but threefold times Using paper, pad and quill. ...
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Categories:
earp, america,
Form: Political Verse
Immortality
...In a movie entitled, Tombstone, Wyatt Earp said to Doc Holliday, "All right. let's finish it". To which Doc Holliday replied, "...
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Categories:
earp, christian, heaven,
Form: Verse
Twirp Caused Us To Urp
...Ensued and Reviewed Feud
ensued and reviewed
what became family feud
which we would elude
they had been a kook
after putting up each duke
had started to puke
even though trump hate
told...
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Categories:
earp, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
The Western Stars
...An old black and white movie
took me back to my childhood
when cowboys rode the range
Major Adams and Flint McCullough leading the Wagon Train,
and Hopalong's ten-gallon white hat
rode the b...
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Categories:
earp, analogy, stars, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboys, Made of Awesome
...Some modern folks, when they hear his name,
will roll their eyes and look ashamed,
thinking the cowboy is uncivilized,
with his hats, and guns, and round-up rides.
That somehow they are beyond th...
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Categories:
earp, america, appreciation, celebration, fun,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Excerp of My Poem
...Excerp of My Earp Poem
From my poor poem had read an excerp;
Sounded so bad but still up they did slurp;
Syrup seemed slick,
So we had own pick;
With feet in stirrup would have a big burp;
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Categories:
earp, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
See the Man
...Make for the corner, Fresno-Whittier
(there’s neighborhoods a whole lot prettier):
it’s probably ten-ninety-six,
but don’t draw weapons – that’s a Nix.
The man before you’s not a “perp”,
so don’...
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Categories:
earp, hurt,
Form: Couplet
The Westerns of Tv Land
...I was watching the TV the other day
When a certain Rerun began to play.
It brought me back to one of my brain's stifled bans
Because it was about Lucas McCain...the Rifleman.
All of a sudden I ...
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Categories:
earp, hero, memory, remember, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Arizona Star
...Heat waves dancing atop the freshly laid pavement
Sun burning up skin and crimping our eyes
Flies trying to get in, but I can't save them
Poor little guys can't event realize
Let me welcome eve...
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Categories:
earp, identity, pride,
Form: Free verse
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