Long It's a one horse town Poems

Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning

Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...

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This is a rather nostalgic piece -


Meandering around on rural roads, in search of one-horse towns, with no place in particular to go,     
Connie - that’s my wife - and I,...

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Chorus
Sights are far but our minds are close
two hearts share one inhale with one nose
stage acts are for her even the pose
smiles from down she wishes for a rose
ten out of ten is her loyal...

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One Horse Town


The boardwalks full of people only two stood in the street.
The showdown of the century counting down to thirty feet.

Black Bart said this towns too small for you and I to both be...

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I am so wild, I carelessly run around
I am the last horse in a one horse town
I'm as wild as wild can be
I have zero guidance, so I live my life aimlessly
Do what you have...

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Games Some People Play

After all I've lost along the way
there's no need to think things over.
Gone are all but memories
of things I can't recover.

Actions running through my mind
they haunt me day and night.
Yet still it's...

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I've dragged this here bag of gold
it seems a thousand miles,
no rain, no water, no food to eat,
just stagnant pools that look like bile
and a few odd berries . . .

Saw a sign a few...

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Fathers and sons
By Michelle Morris
21/11/2022

It was cold there in his shadow
Fathers and sons struggle with their roles
He didn't support your sensitivity
You always felt he was a bully so cold

You lost yourself in drugs for years
Couldn't...

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(Apologies to any cowboys in Derbyshire)

The telegraph came through, but just in time
before my coach had passed the county line
mah girl wuz all alone and in distress
and only one guy could go save her- well,...

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Broke the bank yesterday on my brand new ride,
Bright midnight blue with golden yellow sides,
Bringin’ it home for me and my baby to drive;
Breakin’ outa here.
Can’t let the bad boys take us alive;
Ride, ride, ride...

Bad...

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Maybe some fifty years back, give or take nine or ten
In a one horse town, Owen was the burro
For many a year he rode with the wild bunch, that he did
Never could get enough whiskey...

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Life's More Than A Three-Act Play
In A One Horse Town
By: Tom Wright
9/2/98

Life,
is that physical period of time,
separating birth from death,
in which almighty God,
grants auditions for eternity.
I came not, nor will I leave, by my choice.
Whether...

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More Idiom Humor
Miracle Man 
1/23/2024

Some days I just wake up feeling of low self esteem,
I survey the night’s happenings and almost scream.

Other days I feel “dumber than a barrel of hair”,
asking myself this question, Does...

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(sorry, Tirzah, I could not do a nice long poem on horses.
I just felt like doing some silly limericks playing off expressions
for horses. Thanks for the inspiration!)

I Hate that Horse

There’s a horse that I so...

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Wasn't even gonna mention it
Just couldn't help myself
funny how I let the best of me
get to you
funny how you just can't tell
sad how I check my horoscope
and write heartfelt notes
what a waste of unconditional love
I...

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I’m turning in eternity
For a pair of comfortable shoes
And a nice hot cuppa tea

I’m turning in my grave
For a black suit, top hat and cane
To join the dance of the unsaved

I’m turning in my tomb
For...

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Wish I had a time machine
I'd go back, change everything
Try again to make you stay
I'd go back and found a way

But I'm stuck here in this one horse town
Ain't no time machines around
Gone is gone...

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Sittin' on the front porch with a brand new lover
Twinkle in her eye and the moon above her

I said,"What you thinkin'? -Something you could share?"
She said,"Somethin' naughty - somethin' I don't dare."

So we talked a...

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Well I'm a heading back to NEW ORLEANS
Tonight, gotta get out of this one horse town
And back to Bourbon street where the night
Life is hot to trot in the big city lights and the
Music keeps...

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It was 1984 and the clock struck thirteen when I left her 
alone on the station of a one-horse town 
with only the wind blowing hard for company 
and the rain pouring down. 
She used...

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Where do they come from these tears laced with salt
They rush like rivers or squeeze out in drops
They measure emotions and assign fault
In a mad world where the pain never stops

I should have told her...

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He was her golden ticket out of that one horse town....
Behind that U-haul was her '79 Pinto and they were heading Eastbound....
He was a blond haired pretty boy who could tell her nothing but his...

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They said “La Coquille is beautiful” they led me on, they lied,
It's nothing but a one horse town and now the horse has died.
It sits astride a major road, it's neither here nor there
Amazing if...

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The only joint left in this one horse town
Where you can still light up a smoke
Is downstairs
In tickle the ivory
All you got to do is check your coat and hat at the door
Take a drink...

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In despair and on lockdown
A city is turned into a one horse town
Its people are on the frontline to save the Earth 
As all of humanity holds its breathe
Flights canceled, fright heightened
Travelers hustled, prayers recited
Somewhere...

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