Long Dismounted Poems
Long Dismounted Poems. Below are the most popular long Dismounted by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Dismounted poems by poem length and keyword.
Milton Creek Election Week
Judge Horne issued a decree that elections take place this week
For the positions of mayor and sheriff in the town of Milton Creek
It had now been nearly four years and was somewhat overdue
Some known names...
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Categories:
dismounted, america, conflict, prison,
Form:
Narrative
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
dismounted, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Night In the Apple Orchard
Young Timmy saw Jim walking down the street. Timmy considered a quick retreat, but steadied himself with a shrug. Timmy dreaded the sight of Jim, a teenage bully and wanna be thug, who...
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Categories:
dismounted, children, fear, scary,
Form:
Narrative
The Wicked Witch of Soup Creek Bites the Dust
Galloping hooves broke morn's peace in Soup Creek's Main Street
When Jimmy Smith rode in from Bar 20 his face white as a sheet
He stopped at Sheriff Koplins office and banged heavily on the door
"What's...
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Categories:
dismounted, america, death, humor, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 25
Christ!
A warparty of 60 Shoshone warriors has just stampeded into the meadow
faces painted red and white for blood and death, all sorts of strange designs,
bows and arrows ready to fly on us, skull breaking cudgels...
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Categories:
dismounted, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Haunting Greeting From Lady Katie
I learned so much last time I went too
The shore casino near the ocean blue
Conjuring up honesty and words that were true
Looking for tranquil sanctuary to think and talk ...
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Categories:
dismounted, cheer up, children, death, goodbye, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bodie Lynchings
Five strangers rode into Bodie, a small gold mining town
They didn't look at anybody and kept their heads down
At the Citizens bank they halted, it had been a long ride
Four then entered the bank and...
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Categories:
dismounted, america, death, horse, judgement, violence,
Form:
Narrative
The Country Bus
There was a time
In the not distant past
When farmers would sell their wares
Of fruits and vegetables they had planted
To feed the town folks, and balance a budget
In exchange, for clothes, sundries and junket
For the...
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Categories:
dismounted, adventure, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Vultures Circling -Part Two
We'd been travelling through the night, and we needed a rest
The unmerciful sun was now rising above a rocky red crest
We headed for a large boulder that offered plenty of shade
Jenna was getting sick and...
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Categories:
dismounted, america, horse, silence, travel,
Form:
Narrative
I Survived Janjaweed Part 2
Hordes of screams sounded out all around and masses of slashed bloody villagers staggered into our village. Grownups started running to finding stuff to clean them They kept saying “Janjaweed,...
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Categories:
dismounted, bereavement, death, death of a friend, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Two Broken Souls, Part Iii
...“Time was I wouldn’t care for your sad state,
I’d have my fun and leave you to your plight,
but four years in a cell changes a man,
and I have set out to live my days right.
“Been...
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Categories:
dismounted, dark, depression, history, hope, pain, recovery from,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
He Died With A Smile, Part III
He followed this path for half a mile,
found himself high up on a cold platform.
The trail split, one went across the mesa,
the other went right, winding down below.
On the left he could see clear wagon...
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Categories:
dismounted, abuse, anger, children, dark, death, evil, sad,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
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 what types of cowboys...
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Categories:
dismounted, conflict, emotions, father, history, mother, sad, sympathy,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
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 their travails,
all lawmen who had...
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Categories:
dismounted, conflict, emotions, father, history, mother, sad, sympathy,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
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 Denver eight years back,
found nothing...
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Categories:
dismounted, culture, friendship, history, hope, humanity, people, sad,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
The Heroes of Buzzard's Bend, Part Iii
...Then he could see it, the boils,
on their neck and wrists, bright and red,
he felt an itch on his own back,
and felt a cold moment of dread.
Now Diaz could not ignore it,
and Mains’s words came...
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Categories:
dismounted, corruption, god, hero, history, religious, symbolism, western,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Hellroaring Hank
Prospector Hank rode down the canyon cold
Ten years on the trail, out looking for gold,
Hank found a camp, not long abandoned then
In the dust lay tracks, of cows and of men.
Why cows would be here,...
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Categories:
dismounted, adventure, courage, hero, history, strength,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
To See Marlena, Part I
Conley Pratt slouched over the horn
of a battered and trail-worn saddle,
been on the run for several hours now
after being caught rustling cattle.
His side ached, caked in fresh blood
from where a large bullet had struck,
he heard...
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Categories:
dismounted, betrayal, death, devotion, history, lost love, love,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Rennie's Outlaw, Part V
V.
Besides a rushing stream he saw a stone hut,
framed by aspens clinging to a rough slope,
the chimney was stained from long years of use,
But who lived out here? He just didn’t’ know.
Until his eyes happened...
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Categories:
dismounted, angst, fear, heartbreak, history, love, relationship, society,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
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...
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Categories:
dismounted, western,
Form:
Free verse
Duel At Dusk
The sun was setting, as it usually does
The town a ghost town, the main street all but silenced
The wind blowing leaves and dreams to and fro
The tension in the air was palpable
The few souls about...
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Categories:
dismounted, beauty, dream, gothic, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
The Unicorn
The Unicorn
Once upon a time…
an incredible event occurred that was so sublime.
On a warm summer night many years ago,
awakened by the rhythmic tempo
of hoof beats coming from the yard below,
I peered outside my bedroom window.
There...
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Categories:
dismounted, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Day Dad Went To Belsen
The tank stopped abruptly
And we sat open mouthed
At what we beheld
Our brains could not assimilate
What our eyes were seeing
Great mounds of …. What?
It can’t be that.
All the horrors of war
We had witnessed, experienced
Since D-day
Did not...
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Categories:
dismounted, war
Form:
Free verse
Mystic Cowgirl
She came from out of nowhere
Her hair flowing in the breeze
Wearing a cowboy hat and boots
With denim skirt above her knees
Her steed that she rode upon
Was as white as white...
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Categories:
dismounted, fantasy, lost love, passion, romance, me, blue,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Billy Edward's Ride 1st Half
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Hopped out early from his bunk bed
Jumped into his old blue jeans
Slipped his hand into his pocket
Found enough change for a drink
Put his tennie to the kickstand
Hopped aboard his...
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Categories:
dismounted, childhood, children, miracle, religious,
Form:
Epic