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Laramie Poems - Poems about Laramie

Cancelled Plans For An Unplanned Worthy Cause
...the way the rain is falling the perfection of the chill makes us laugh as we agree to disagree we cancel our plans for we are both under the weather we decide to stay under the covers an idea fo......

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Categories: laramie, beautiful, love, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fort Laramie - a Trooper's Story
...At dawn the bugle's piercin' call roused troopers for another wretched day, Of curryin' horses, shovelin' manure, drillin', guard duty and gatherin' hay! Another day of bellerin' sergeants and pomp......

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Categories: laramie, military,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging the Conclusion
...https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_funny_thing_happened_on_the_way_to_my_hanging_1038053 https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_funny_thing_happened_on_the_way_to_my_hanging_-part_deux_1078413 (......

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Categories: laramie, america, brother, horse,
Form: Rhyme
No Giddy Up
...Whoa .. I’ve need for some hay then a trip to the trough to quench my thirst. I’ve not eaten much; I need to rest this very day will stop at Laramie, must have a stable first My saddle is heav......

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Categories: laramie, horse, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Black Hills Legacy
...Black Hills Legacy In the vaults of the U.S. government, Sits a cache of money gathering interest. But money cannot buy the hearts of a people In exchange for land and legacy For breaki......

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Categories: laramie, america, education, history, native
Form: Verse



Premium Member Brave Woman
...Brave Woman Wounded and outnumbered by U.S. soldiers, The Northern Cheyenne Warrior ‘Chief Comes in Sight,’ Fights to stay alive in the Rosebud Creek valley, When his sister spo......

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Categories: laramie, america, education, family, hero,
Form: Verse
Illegal Immigrants
...This poem was written after I took a tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Wyoming, the site of Custer's Last Stand. It was the year eighteen sixty-eight. The U.S. governmen......

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Categories: laramie, history, immigration,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Shootout, and That Wild Young Cowboy From Laramie
...Shootout, And That Wild Young Cowboy From Laramie Her heart said, I want a cowboy from Laramie Six-gun shooting hombre to take sweet care of me Tender lover succumbing to my feminist wiles Begg......

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Categories: laramie, fate, repetition, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 2
...(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad) © 2009 (Jim Sularz) Wyoming winds blow like a hurricane, the flims......

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Categories: laramie, america, history, travel,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Belong Where I Am
...Belonging means different things to people each of us have ideas what is to belong many throughout their life have roamed following their own notion staying strong You choose where you gonna be......

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Categories: laramie, home, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860
...High noon in Fort Laramie, the summer sun is oppressive. A whalebone corset digs into my body’s tender parts. Peering from the shop, my hand touching the pane of dearly brought glass, I feel the v......

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Categories: laramie, memory,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Cowboys Where Are You
...There was a day on TV Where westerns were all the rage You could take your pick From your TV paper page Together our masked hero the Lone Ranger With Tonto kept outlaws in a spin Have Gun Will Trave......

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Categories: laramie, america, native american, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860
...The summer sun was high. The heat was oppressive. The whalebone corset dug into the body's tender parts. Peering from the shop, my hand touching the pane of dearly brought glass, I feel the vibrat......

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Categories: laramie, baby, children, horse, me,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Six Grandfathers
...This statue of four done the American way For the Black Hills of Dakota, with the Lakota should stay Carved to commemorate, the first one hundred and fifty years This new nation built, on Red Indi......

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Categories: laramie, history, native american, places
Form: Ekphrasis
Texas Jack
...Ol' Texas Jack he wandered, He wandered far and wide, With cactus spikes a blanket, Locoweed his temporary bride. And when Ol' Texas Jack was shot Straight dead---he very nearly died. But his......

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Categories: laramie, adventure, cowboy-western, children, funny,
Form: Ballad

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