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Laredo Poems - Poems about Laredo

Premium Member Three Songs - One Poem
...The streets of Laredo have no green fields, nor has it fruit trees, nor rotting yields. France has no cowboys that anyone sees, and cowboys are never called deportees.......

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Categories: laredo, music, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Songs of Ireland
...Listening to folk records in my room all day, as a kid, to another world I'd withdraw to the streets of Laredo, as cold as the clay. Later, in music I heard, in pictures I saw, the Irish roots ......

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Categories: laredo, appreciation, ireland, song,
Form: Ottava rima



Premium Member we three toms of laredo are
...We three toms of Laredo are Running from a sheriff's star Westward leading, still proceeding Soon hiding in Kitty's fancy Cat House Bar......

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Categories: laredo, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Justice In Texas
...A strong wind blows across the Texas sand, As the sun is sinking low in the sky. Three men ride into the town of Laredo, In the distance you hear a coyote's cry. Ponies hitched outside a Cantin......

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Categories: laredo, death, guitar, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fifty-Three Souls
...The rig rolled through Laredo On the road to San Antone, Its eighteen wheels of commerce Headed north from parts unknown. The shipping costs all paid to Their coyote chaperones. The pla......

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Categories: laredo, allegory, america, anger, immigration,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Pink and My Buster Browns
...Pink and My Buster Browns My egg hatched north of the border, P......

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Categories: laredo, bird, bullying, cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Weren't Worth Texas
...It was dusty, dry and endless Stretched beneath an empty sky From horizon to horizon Where the turkey buzzards fly, Like a landscape meant to warn you Just how far a man can fall. Except for ......

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Categories: laredo, allegory, travel,
Form: Lyric
Spaghetti Western
...I woke up in a Spaghetti Western Not sure how this happened to me Standing on the dusty streets of Laredo With six desperado's down the street I gazed off to my left As a tumbleweed went tumbl......

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Categories: laredo, dream, , western,
Form: Light Verse
Textbook Texan
...As I walked down the streets of Laredo I spied a Mexican hot potato But better by far A Cuban cigar With a spicy Comanche tomato......

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Categories: laredo, culture, food, lust, native
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At the Saloon
...The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At The Saloon That wash-bin washed away tons of trail-dirt Many a pint of blood too said the old man He was lean and mean in his cowboy shirt Weather-beaten fac......

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Categories: laredo, art, death, history, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Mateo
...Gift from God they called him, tall, lean and proud, the big iron hanging on his belt, had opened many a shroud. He rode an Apaloosa, a stallion maned and tailed, and had followed a gang of four o......

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Categories: laredo, adventure, death,
Form: Haibun
Laredo Tornado
...At sea there's squalls as pressure falls It's not surprising as warm air's rising From the cloud there's thunder, loud Lightning flashes More thunder crashes Hail stone falls Large icy b......

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Categories: laredo, natural disasters, weather, wind,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Real Cowboys Don'T Sing Honky-Tonk Songs
...When cowboys sprawl 'round the camp fire after the days work is done, They strum guitars and tootle harmonicas and sing to have fun. Real cowboys don't sing Honky-Tonk or She Done Me Wrong stuff. ......

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Categories: laredo, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Songs Learnt At Daddy's Knee
...My Pa warn't much for music, Not like ya hear today. Them tune he learnt and taught me, Were from a bygone day. But Saturday nights were special; At least they were to me. Cause that was when ......

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Categories: laredo, character, father, music, nostalgia,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Limerick: Once a Lolling Lassie From Laredo
...Limerick: Once a lolling lassie from Laredo Once a lolling lassie from Laredo Jumped on a bronco to enter a rodeo But the steed fell in love With the curve of her alcove And sped away on a honeymoon......

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Categories: laredo, humorous,
Form: Limerick

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