Steel Ruler
...Steel Ruler
My steel ruler, Mr I Will
Toy With Your
Affections, passed away
last Wednesday. The doctor said it was a
severe, sudden disease that
was going around that got her. At her fun...
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Categories:
puncher, humor,
Form: Free verse
Sleep Crazy One Sleep
...A nocturnal sorting machine
clatters inside a skull.
Images flit across closed eyes.
A blind man works there,
he is not the loopy one
he’s just a working man,
a projectionist, a time-puncher....
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Categories:
puncher, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sleep Crazy One Sleep
...A nocturnal sorting machine
clatters inside a skull.
Images flit across closed eyes.
A blind man works there,
he is not the crazy one
he’s just a working man,
a projectionist,
a time-puncher.
...
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Categories:
puncher, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Mule Named Jack
...Now its purty well knowed that cowpokes prefer to ride a horse,
An' movin' pitchers show 'em astride prancin' horses of course.
But Hank, a cow-puncher fer many years ain't like th' usual pack;
He...
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Categories:
puncher, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Preacher With Steel Hands, Part Iii
......The media was stunned by this action,
and even more so when he retired,
he said he could not hit a man again
after what he had just seen transpire,
that making money of televised strife
could...
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Categories:
puncher, change, forgiveness, meaningful, pain,
Form: Narrative
The Last Frontier, Part Ii
......Gutshot snarled at Sid’s strange reaction.
“I don’t care if a century’s gone by.
You murdered my brother, and I made a vow,
to take vengeance for Paul before I die.”
Sid just shrugged back a...
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Categories:
puncher, age, anger, conflict, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Texas Treasure Tragedy, Part Iii
...Blackjack’s face held its dark glare,
he shook his head in disgust.
“We rode all this way, and your great ‘treasure’
is some moldy old paper and dust?”
He slowly moved his hand towards his gun,...
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Categories:
puncher, history, hope, loss, time,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
When Good Folks Get Mad, Part I
...Madeline Cole worked over the basin,
Washing clothes for her, and her man,
In the wilds of Kansas, 1878,
Where grass, between horizons, did span.
A pretty young woman, a brand new wife
She’d y...
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Categories:
puncher, adventure, confidence, corruption, courage,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
This Old Car
...This old car written by a parky ,
I have a friend Denitia
A lovely lady she is
I rang her up one morning
To see if she was in
We decided to have some fun
In an old reck of a car
So off ...
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Categories:
puncher, car,
Form: Free verse
Unquotable Quotes - Xii
...Unquotable quotes – XII
To catch a monkey, you need a young coconut with three holes for eyes ; bore a hole in one and wait : the monkey will thrust its hand in to grab a mouthful and will not ...
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Categories:
puncher, humor, life, satire, women,
Form: Epigram
Memoir
...Marching the streets with our flags flying high
Deutschland uber allas was our battle cry
The Youth taught me to be tough and bold
With out hesitation I carried out every order I was told
To defe...
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Categories:
puncher, history,
Form: Lyric
Limerick: Once a Ticket-Puncher Got Dead Drunk
...Limerick : Once a Ticket-Puncher got dead drunk
Once a Ticket-Puncher got dead drunk
Punched everyone he called « Bloody Skunk ! »
Sentenced to punch in ring
Minus his wedding ring
Now his wife’s pu...
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Categories:
puncher, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Ice Frozen Box, I Like To Call My Heart
...The Ice Frozen Box, I Like To Call My Heart
8/04/10
By: Sami LaRose
In times of evaporation, the heart fades away
Looking for a newer and brighter day.
He strolls alongside Park Avenue
Then he see’...
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Categories:
puncher, death, depression, growing up,
Form: Verse
When the Heart Weeps
...When the heart weeps
The whole body goes to sleep
Even the bright stars
Though very away, far
Turns of its light
And its the heart's night
When the heart weeps
The cut is deep
Like that o...
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Categories:
puncher, depressionheart, heart,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Big Smalley
...It was back in '89 when I worked the Rockin' B,
That they hired a large cowpuncher that we called Big Smalley.
I reckon that ol' cowboy musta went 'bout six foot nine--
And to our suprise was the ...
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Categories:
puncher, cowboy-western, funny, philosophy,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
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