Long Gunfights Poems

Virtue inherited not born with 
The birth of prophecy created a new poem
Knowledge a capers coin
Hightower resurected a powerful force
Bloodlines are like landmines watch your step
Lopez connected to the source 
Compassion just another distraction 
Locate...

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Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson
A brand new sheriff came to town
I'm sure he's not the last
We've had fourteen in the past year
They leave here mighty fast

Some can't stand the pressure
Others end up in boot hill
It...

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Robert Sherriff, Australian Poet, Author, Singer, Actor, American Historian,
Photographer

Exploring the Legend of Billy the Kid

In the annals of the Wild West, one name that continues to captivate with its blend of notoriety and mythos is...

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Some say a cowboy’s a cowboy—
It’s a truth he can’t hide behind—
He rides hard on inner ranges—
Bein’ cowboy’s a state of mind.

They say you just ain’t a cowboy,
If you make your wages in town—
You have...

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I love a good movie, I honestly do
I’d watch one alone and I’d watch one with you
Adventure or Western, perhaps a film noir,
A comedy suited to my Ma and Pa

I like a good Thriller, a...

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Each day in Tombstone as tourists watch
The OK Corral gunfight plays out
Reenactments staged by the locals
The Earps always prevail in this bout

Saunter down to the Bird Cage Theater
Now a museum in this Old West town
Actors...

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It’s no secret
I would rather be dead
Than alive
If I were in a western movie
The poster would read:
“Wanted Alive, Death 
Would make him too Happy.”
Can you imagine how that might
Play out in Hollywood and 
Spaghetti westerns?
No...

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When the Parakeet increased his squawking
with the noise box ceaseless talking
far louder than the muted city roar.
Then I pondered that curious poem about the lost Lenore
About that bedeviled man and the raven Nevermore
How I envy...

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we need less homicide
less genocide
less suicide
but more inside connects

we more checks
and less debt
we need to be more in depth
less inept
we need more safe sex
and less death

we need more intelligent cats
less niggas with gats
less crack infested...

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[Fiction Out West]


A mining town, among others, had been shut down the longest. Long before the mines closed, and all the towns followed. As the story goes; one night, a 10-year-old boy walks into a...

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I wanted to try both types of the Rispetto form. The first one is 11 syllables
and the second is 8. I know the Iambic tetrameter is not perfect.


Ignorance fails to hear a heart's silent cry,
when...

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If sixty years before in my place of birth
had I been living in that Texas town Fort Worth.
With long horn steers moving to and fro
what would I have done, where would I go?
Herding cattle or...

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THINGS  I  DON’T  WANT  TO  KNOW


In romantic dramas where boy meets girl, maybe his  ex,
How many times or in what position they have sex.
In action scenes of battle or...

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Independence

In search of freedom, many braved the high seas, 
Needing to flee the chains of their home countries.
Desiring a fresh start in a far-off land;
Educating their children to understand.
Plymouth, Jamestown, Hampton, and other such sites;
Enduring...

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