Long Wyoming Poems
Long Wyoming Poems. Below are the most popular long Wyoming by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Wyoming poems by poem length and keyword.
If All of the Weird Ones Were CroppedThis piece has a fairly tricky rhyme scheme = a-a-B /c-c-B
If All of the Weird Ones Were Cropped
I was sittin’ alone in a booth in a deli in Cody, Wyoming one day,
When a...
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Categories:
wyoming, animal, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
My Bucket ListMY BUCKET LIST
Years and years ago, I made a bucket list.
I looked everywhere and could not find it.
I don’t remember everything I listed,
so it’s time for a new one to be created
or just to go...
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Categories:
wyoming, adventure, journey, places, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Just You and I In the SkyI want to go to Idaho
I bet you never knew
And Wyoming… and Hawaii…
Oh, and North Dakota too!!
I’ve been to all the other ones
For once there was a time
When I would tease the pull of Earth
And...
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Categories:
wyoming, adventure, child, children, dream, flying, imagination, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
Hellboy's Fight RecordHellboy danced with the best of them,
With a record here, though incomplete...
Winning almost all of the time,
What a miraculous feat!
Date Opponent Location Result
----------------------------------------------------------------------
XXxX Hecate L (fatality)
2004 Rasputin W
XXxX osiris club W
XXxX Witch L (fatality)
XXxX Dragon...
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Categories:
wyoming, appreciation,
Form:
List
Settling Old Grudges, Part IThis house belonged to grandfather Rudolph,
though its history goes much further back,
all the way to the eighteen seventies,
when to this vast land Herbert Blake did trek.
It had once been a grand ranch homestead,
centerpiece of sixteen...
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Categories:
wyoming, conflict, confusion, family, father daughter, history, native
Form:
Narrative
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 2(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad) © 2009 (Jim Sularz)
Wyoming winds blow like a hurricane,
the flimsy bridge sways to...
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Categories:
wyoming, america, history, travel,
Form:
Quatrain
Hitchiking TalesApril 30 In Search of America 1975 – Hitch hiking Tales
When I was young and foolish
Broke and stubborn
I hitchhiked across the USA
Started in Salt Lake City
Where my greyhound bus pass
Was stolen...
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Categories:
wyoming, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Ever Jumped a TrainEver Jumped A Train?
I have and it took me on a ride I'll never forget,
A journey like no other I have ever taken.
Traveling along those rails in open door box car,
Watched beauty of many states...
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Categories:
wyoming, writing,
Form:
Narrative
Bull-Bison Rodeo, Part II was drifting west through old Wyoming,
to see if ranches were hiring,
it had been some weeks since I’d gotten work,
sought a new scene to see what it might bring.
I was somewhere just east of Yellowstone,
the...
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Categories:
wyoming, adventure, animal, fun, humor, imagery, nature, silly,
Form:
Narrative
The Shape-Shifting Cowboy, Part IJenna lived in rural Wyoming lands,
where grass rolled over small ridges and buttes,
a small town way out in the cow country,
where the ranchers still throw lassos in loops.
She was driving out to see her boyfriend,
who...
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Categories:
wyoming, earth, freedom, journey, love, motivation, relationship, science
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
The Ballad of Cat Ballou - Part 1It's a hanging day in Wolf City, Wyoming, 1894.
They're gonna drop Cat Ballou through the gallows' floor.
Cat your time has come as you stand on the brink.
It's sure making you think
about your life of sin.
Why...
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Categories:
wyoming, cowboy-westerncat, heart, cat, day, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Worth Noting5/9/22
Let me change my toning
Skills mastered and others still honing
I am not droning
People to this day passed away from a stoning
Continually condoning
With no cease to cloning
It's become often and corroding
Occasionally exploding
All the while a struggle...
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Categories:
wyoming, dark, death, deep, life, poetry, rap, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Natural InstinctThree Sonnets tell a story, in sequence.
[From the narrative poem, "Don't Go to Wyoming Alone"]
I. Natural Instinct (Chivalric Sonnet)
He saves a wad of cash and...
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Categories:
wyoming, africa, farm, flying, travel, vacation,
Form:
Sonnet
Traveling Around the United StatesI have traveled the world over but like the United States best
From Maine to California, north and south, east, and west.
Born in West Virginia, I live in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Have visited Vermont, New Hampshire...
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Categories:
wyoming, america, travel, usa,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Go To Wyoming AloneHe's a versatile "man of all trades,"
pursues anything new, virtually self-made.
He's a photographer, a minister and a poet,
immerses himself totally but before you know it
he's off and running, tackling something new
He's built homes, cell towers,...
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Categories:
wyoming, africa, farm, flying, humorous, travel, vacation,
Form:
Narrative
The Emperor of WyomingAfter the Gold Rush, the lawless boom town went cold
The Emperor of Wyoming broke camp and left
But love will keep him searching for a Heart of Gold
The Needle And the Damage Done left him bereft
The...
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Categories:
wyoming, music,
Form:
Pantoum
Better Off a Cowboy, Part IMy son’s name is Dylan, was country raised
in the hills of Wyoming where cattle graze,
helped on the ranch, but never felt fulfilled,
hated his hometown as teens often will.
But he ‘did his time’ until graduation,
went to...
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Categories:
wyoming, change, growing up, growth, political, time, truth,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Our Love Story Part 1My granddaughters asked me one day
"Grammy, how did you date
Going to an all girl school
Wasn't it pretty hard for you?"
They were at that dating age
And figured they could trap me
I just told them with a...
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Categories:
wyoming, devotion, happiness, love, wedding, me, me, wedding,
Form:
Free verse
The Glaciers SpeakThe glaciers swept over the corridors of North America standing in the back yard of Alaska they carved out the great lakes in Alberta, British Columbia and Montana and, gazes at you from...
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Categories:
wyoming, america, business, community, deep, education, england, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Illegal ImmigrantsThis poem was written after I took a tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Wyoming, the site of Custer's Last Stand.
It was the year eighteen sixty-eight.
The U.S. government signed the Fort Laramie...
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Categories:
wyoming, history, immigration,
Form:
Blank verse
Cadd Part Two2"Vision Zero" -- no more deaths from highway accidents. The idea was born in Sweden, where it's had spectacular success in reducing traffic fatalities. Now zeroing out all traffic fatalities must become an explicit U.S....
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Categories:
wyoming, caregiving, education, forgiveness, nostalgia, parody, recovery from...
Form:
Prose Poetry
i would like to be twelve millions kilometres awayI would like to be twelve million kilometers away
From this stupid town, I’d like to be in Minnesota,
To burn all my poems in your hungry eyes,
I want to get away from those raptors that steal...
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Categories:
wyoming, allegory, imagination, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Loosin' Stella, a Cowboy's LamentDreamin' with my eyes on these Montana skies
Blue as the plaid in my plum good shirt
I got the mitten by a beauty queen smitten
By a flannel mouthed tenderfoot from the Wyoming dirt
I’m just a waddie...
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Categories:
wyoming, culture, emotions, feelings, heartbroken, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Hunting the Bear, Part IConner woke up in his hotel
and looked to the small clock.
He’d slept through his early alarm,
it was later than he thought.
He leapt up and quickly dressed,
for he had a job to do,
so he pulled on...
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Categories:
wyoming, adventure, dark, death, judgement, nature, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
The Legend of Alfred Packer 'Cannibal Extraordinarie'In the winter of 1873, Alfred Packer was hired to guide a prospectin' trek.
In the San Juans of Colorady they'd heard of gold that they wanted to check.
Alfred claimed that in Colorady minin' camps he'd...
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Categories:
wyoming, funnyold, old,
Form:
Rhyme