Long Bonney Poems

Both of their eyes locked hard on one another.
The sheriff needed to talk with this grieving, vengeful brother.
"Have a seat and a drink with me," the sheriff said to him.
"I need to explain to you...

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Billy the Kid had a brother whose name was Joe
and after the Kid's death he let everyone know
that he would kill Pat Garrett unmercifully on sight
for killing his brother on that mournful night.
Joe and a...

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Continued From:
13. BTK Coming Attractions Part 5
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=195839 

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Truly A Kid
 
BILLY the Kid was truly a kid when found in the company of children.
Many children of his day would go on to say 
how...

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Continued From:
3. Quien es?" "Who is it?" Part 3
 http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=195853

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"I find it very hard that I should be the only one to suffer the most extreme penalties of the 
law." - BILLY the Kid...

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Billy the kid kept roving around,
A campfire here, a cowhand there,
He traveled alone through country & town,
Always headed somewhere,

One certain day he rode into town,
His forty-five strapped on his side,
Just to stop and drink one...

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When you compare the facts with the tales of his legend,
you'll find that most stories of his life are pure fabrication.
He is known worldwide for his killer marksmanship with a gun,
but few know his reputation...

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Jesse Evans and The Boys earned much notoriety
during the old west's most untamed and wild history.
Raiding resturants and salloons they would drink and eat for free.
"Chalk it up!" they'd say to all of the merchants...

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John Miller and William H Bonney, 
are both one and the same apparently, 
at least that's what John Miller would claim occasionally, 
but never when he was sober, drunk only. 
John Miller and The Kid...

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Continued From:
5. Billy, the Kid Part 2
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Billy was a lad of many aliases. William Henry McCarty is believed to be his birth name.
Alias Henry McCarty, Alias Henry Antrim, 
Alias William Antrim Jr are all...

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The Kid had been arrested along with The Boys and Jesse Evans.
All were being charged with cattle rustling.
It was John Tunstall's livestock that had been stolen,
and he intended to press charges against all of them,
until...

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Continued From:
16. A Short And Violent Life Ends. A Legend Begins, Part 2
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=195836 

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"Duerme bien, Querido" or "Sleep Well, Beloved" are the words that were engraved
on a small wooden cross that Deluvina Maxwell placed...

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He shot a man in Arizona
so Billy's riding hard tonight.
He had to leave Fort Grant City
because he killed a bully in broad daylight.
Billy's heading back from where he came from,
back to old New Mexico.
He has...

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Continued From:
4. Billy, the Kid
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Yes he did kill but it was a justifiable sin.
If Billy hadn't killed them they would have killed him.
Some say he killed for vengeance but that was never his means...

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The movements of others to far away lands
Drifted into American folklore, within histories hands

Fur trappers they started many centuries ago
In a country to become as the years truly flowed

Centennial by centennial, amidst wars between they
Slowly...

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It was a few days after the Kid's great escape,
when the following happened to Sherriff Pat Garrett's dismay.
A stranger rode in to the town of Lincoln,
with the same horse that the Kid stole for his...

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He watched his mother, his mentor and three of his best friends 
die right before his eyes.
His mother died of TB very slowly,
and when she slipped away he was there at her bedside.
John Tunstall, his...

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I myself kind of find this hard to believe,
but Billy the Kid, aka William H Bonney,
this long dead figure of American history,
often helps me therapeutically.
Whenever I find myself super depressed,
I think about what Billy the...

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Judge Bristol passed his sentence with the following words and said,
"The said William Bonney, alias Kid, alias William Antrim
shall be hanged by the neck until his body be dead, Dead, DEAD!!!"
Billy left the courthouse smiling,...

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