Earp Poems

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.

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Categories: earp, father, father daughter, fathers
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe 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


Premium MemberOur 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

Premium MemberA 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


Premium MemberSheriff 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!

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Categories: earp, fun, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberAgenda

..."Again... I apologize but threefold times                                                                                                              Using paper, pad and quill.                     ...
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Categories: earp, america,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberImmortality

...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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