Heads Up
...I saw a jet, jet ‘cross the sky
silvered high, captivating my
eye:
Surely no meteor could show
natural better, icing the sky
leaving lick-able tails of frosty
air glitter --
The jet ...
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Categories:
lariat, fantasy, imagination, inspirational, stars,
Form: Free verse
Moonflower Of Maleficent Magnificence
...Ah, luminous white she blooms a deceptive ghost
lover of dark arts ripe in charisma and night
moon seducer logic diffuser defense reducer
user of dreams abuser of romance
tempter-serpent t...
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Categories:
lariat, angst, beauty, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse
he had feelings for this big galoot
...She came prancing in wearing a lovely houndstooth suit.
And a silky lavender shirt, and a neck tie lariat to boot.
Her oversized rhinestone shades made her ex yell out “shoot!”
He still had enormo...
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Categories:
lariat, feelings,
Form: Monorhyme
Swing Low
...I lassoed with my lariat
a laureate named Harriet;
I rope-a-doped a pope
and washed his mouth with soap.
The wheel broke on my chariot;
it was too big to carry it.
The poet and the pope got hit...
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Categories:
lariat, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Fashion In My Family
...My grandparents lived on farms – both sides of my family.
My mother’s parents and my father’s parents.
Overalls and button down shirts with pockets
Work boots for grandpas
Except my single gran...
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Categories:
lariat, family, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Cowboy Lover
..."I didn't want to break your heart.
I had no thought of that at all,
When I told you I'd be leaving
Right after roundup time this fall.
A cowboy's life is lonely,
A saddle, bridle and a horse,
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Categories:
lariat, heartbreak, heartbroken, horse,
Form: Rhyme
I'M a Cowboy-
...On the dry Prairie and then Mississippi Valley, yahoo buckaroo;
I come out eating choking dust daily, yahoo;
While on the long open range;
This cattle drive I parade;
Moo-be then...
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Categories:
lariat, adventure, appreciation, confidence, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Sedentary
...Surely God is good,
Surely to Israel,
Surely God is good to Israel,
Surely God to pure hearts,
(please don’t call me Surely)
Soitenly God-Blessed are the dear-heart folks?
Who shall have att...
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Categories:
lariat, corruption, god, grief,
Form: Free verse
Trader Joe's - Wayne, Pa 19087
...171 E Swedesford Rd,
Unexpected positive experience
with regular totally tubular
gnarly patron first name Maureen
hmm... if only this burbling blurb
blog could somehow
be communicated - pro ...
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Categories:
lariat, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
With Vigor Rode In On Trigger
...With Vigor Rode In On Trigger
Our anxiety grew bigger and bigger,
Until someone appeared with vigor;
With a long lariat;
He would carry it;
Roy Rogers had rode in on Trigger.
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
lariat, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Cowboy Howdy the Clown Goes Home
...Cowboy Howdy the Clown still goes
To town with ten little shoes on his toes
Purple hair and a square blue nose
Ten grey flowers for Cimarron Rose
An itty bitty teeny weeny cowboy hat
Vaquero ch...
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Categories:
lariat, animal, home, humorous, nursery
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Amazonomachy
...Amazonomachy, leaping from the comic page, this woman warrior in the dystopian past. ...
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Categories:
lariat, character, creation, fantasy, hero,
Form: Free verse
Cowboy Logic
...He was a cowboy problem child
rescued by a mendicant sage brush sorcerer
resulting in his remembering everything
flawlessly insolently permanantly
birth death life things in space have a beer
ow...
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Categories:
lariat, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Things I'Ll Miss
...Bags all packed and ready to go?
I wish that were the case.
Tossed some clean clothes in the trunk,
With some things I can’t replace.
Won’t take time to be ready to go.
I don’t wanna see her fac...
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Categories:
lariat, leaving, song,
Form: Lyric
War Horse
...Brumby.
A strong gale cuts its path across the snow laden mountain tops,
light and tough the timor, thoroughbred mix, leads his mob at a trot.
A day spend grazing the valley below they now ascen...
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Categories:
lariat, horse, world war i,
Form: Ballad
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