Lawman Poems

The Decrepit Torn Woman

...Born with beauty all over her face 
Trim to fit leather and lace 
Always attractive with her new looks 
Catching her prey with her sexy sharp hooks 
Green was the color she held in her purse 
Me...

The Last Dance of the Caravan: A Gypsy Tragedy

...She wore a ribbon red as flame,
he carved her secret in his name.
They danced beneath the open skies,
with stars like lanterns in their eyes.

The campfire laughed, the horses swayed,
the fiddl...

Sodbuster, Part I

...A sheriff I was in a small town,
seen fifty years, and earned no renown,
when Black Ken and his gang did come down
to Mick Callahan’s big saloon.

He saw I was the only law here,
saw in my eyes...

He Died With A Smile, Part II

...The man shook and said, “They wanted some fun,
but the boy was small, he started to bleed.
Patrick threw him out back, said, ‘This one’s shot,
but we have others to see to our needs.’”

Dalton’s...

The Crapshoot

...Contest betwixt us friends had been common,
Who is who? Who, here, is a true lawman?
When two palms trees though compete to grow high,
They do not crush the common plants nearby...! 

Don't, yet...

Our Peoples' Values, Part I

...Todd was riding in the desert,
through Arizona’s red-brown waste,
out chasing down word of silver,
it was 1878.

He had nothing to go back to,
never had fit in well back east,
he’d left for De...

High Noon- Big Dale

...A washed-up Bank robber named Big Dale
Tried to rob bank, near county of vale
                He didn’t move as quick
                   Got hit with a stick
 Lawman got word, closed fast on his ...

The Sherriff's First Day, Part Ii

......They were quite faint, most would not have seen them,
just a pattern in how the grass did bend,
from their looks the cowboys seemed unaware,
Connolly decided to move with care.

He knew not w...

The Sherriff's First Day, Part I

...When Sherriff Connolly came to Red Flat’s town,
Tte citizens came in from all around,
they had hotly anticipated this,
for too long they felt they had been helpless.

Now Connolly had heard of t...

Bury Me In Datil

...West Texas is a vast, wide-open area, dusty, windy, and dry. Many a time I hid the mostly unbranded calves I took from the herd on the XIT ranch behind the tumbleweeds that had built up in the small ...

Unlucky Jim , the End

...Bank robber Jim was one unlucky bloke
Went to draw his gun but the holster broke
It dropped on the bank floor
And went off with a roar
The shock was too much and he had a stroke...

Though ...

Spaghetti - a Movie Not Made

...Smoke signals rise from Sitting Duck cavern
In town the Pitt gang are trashing the tavern
John Wayne strolled in and he ain’t here to dance
They say that he walked like he just sh*t his pants

D...

Two Parents and a Squealing Pig

...There once was a tiny wee child who's mum taught what's bad and what's good. 

Who grew to be a champion, to right wrongs wherever they could

So when this person was accused, they trusted in the...

The Lawman's Son

...There was a man who was
A giant over his brothers.
He was a fighter not a lover,
Always in a brawl forevermore.

His name was Cain.
And countrywide was his fame.
Everyone knew his name.
Oh, t...

The Island

...we sailed to the island, the island, the island
and would stay there evermore
with nothing to read but coconuts
and cocoa berries upon the tree
with no barber, Dennis or lawman
things could ghet...

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