Holstered Poems - Poems about Holstered

...Marble-sided buildings sunk in the sand Jumped 40 glassy stories on command. Everyone thinks life is nothing and money’s grand. Rolling chair hawkers spiel and cutely chide Sunday suited daddies ......Read the rest...

...It was in Historic Forcados, Where I’d first touched Pride of Barbados: I’d run into A Talking Salvador Long arguing with Unshaken Ricardo, Whose interest were in Stark Bravado, His body partly......Read the rest...

...Vibram lugs 2 inches thick for edge work back when I was so young with mountains to climb the leather uppers with mink oil spread in the oven baked again and again Mountains I climb......Read the rest...

... These leopard eyes warily see another crimson dawn on the cold concrete Serengeti A scarlet sun shaped like the barrel of a gun Dark plume of heat triggers the survival instinct scat......Read the rest...

...Happy Trails Upon the floor I lay, Glued to the black and white TV set: In my western patterned flannel pj’s, Toting a cap-gun holstered at the waist, And a whistle tethered To my cowb......Read the rest...

...on a barren plain, the yellow flowers bloom petals painted with sunlight that never shined all the glory of the world gathered unfairly, although how could a single bouquet ever manifest this? ......Read the rest...

...A lifetime ago, somewhere in Houston, I really tied one on. Somewhere in the wreckage of a ninety-proof night. I got into a fight and lost the keys to my apartment. With a boozy shoulder, I attemp......Read the rest...

...Run Away Ticket counter still open but no planes departing Ticket plus dog scheduled for 7:10 AM (Twelve Hours to nowhere) Bag packed with who knows what. Sidearm.38 snub-nose holstered o......Read the rest...

...High Noon Antics High noon, the time was set upon this arid, sultry day The guns would set against the other, quick-draw style In speedy rivalry and bid to have their final say With keen eyed r......Read the rest...

......The devil didn’t hide, he strutted right out, a smile painted on his red face. “Why my dear sheriff, how in the world Did you ever find my new place?” Abner stared on, seething with hate. “......Read the rest...

...End your war now decades gone join again, relented brawn plant once more your dirt less lawn holstered arms yet never drawn Brotherhood mesh in faux glove family pride hangs black above leave......Read the rest...

...At Sunday service I found myself mystified by something shiny. It was Granny's gun holstered, hanging on her hip. She smiled so sweetly. Nodding nervously, I put my eyeballs back in a......Read the rest...

...Men, do not give up your dreams for these girls, keep sleeping. My cousin had read this phrase to me in August, when my wife left me for a harvard graduate that moved in our neighborhood, which......Read the rest...

...HARLEY DAVIDSON The roar of the victorious twins that spark, Enigma of the spotless glint in the dark, The riders, symbolic of rare brood, Tattooed with insignia and bandana as hood. Third y......Read the rest...

...Cowboy Night at the Corner bar The dark and the wind and the grey broken sidewalk, pushed me to the bar, like a bunker at night with its black door ajar Cowboy Night at the Corner Bar countr......Read the rest...