Short Old West Poems

broke down in Tucson
flat-busted, him punchin' cows
and her slingin' hash...

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Monmouth, Illinois
Wyatt Earp was born right there
Can that be OK?
...

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There was a time in the Old West
When people tried their level best
A special breed
With but one creed:
Get the gold before all the rest!...

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The trollop of horses into our fathers minds,
Stare into the eyes of the men forever blind.
Infinitely seeing the hinges of time swinging,
Forever intensely.. For never ending....

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In the Old West, when a man stole a horse
                    There was one lesson taught, no judges bought, problem solved
                    There were no singers of sad songs, guilty were hung by the neck...

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like a six-shooting cowboy
from the old west
you ride in
a sharp shooter
the pearl handled grip in hand
hammer cocked
firing all six hollow points
straight to my heart
another notch carved
on your bedpost...

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Just ordering one popcorn and a coke
ducking behind the seat now no joke 

Bullets gas masked crazy man and all the rest
It would never have happened in the old west

Guns there in holsters easy drawn now he’s dead...

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This bad perfume packing feller, not real popular
                               A natural carrier of rabies and a bad odor for defense
                               To a old West Texas mountain lion, their meat is sweet...

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brilliance bona fide in redolent skies
keen red submerging, clementine twilight
sunflowers show-offs of the waning sun
wedged within burnt orange escarpments
swifts of volcanic horizon in desert crags
old West crush corralled in surround-hugs
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Harold the Coward was a famous cowboy in the old west
Stayed away from gunfights, with living he was obsessed
Enjoyed breathing air
Happy to be still there
Waking up every morning wearing his bulletproof vest


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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She is wearing a cowboy hat today
I wonder if she sings Aussie or old west?
I have made up so many stories already
My apartment is directly across
I peek between blind slats.
Am I a stalker?
What is that? A record player!
Now I really love this woman!...

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Coats washed for 44 cents.
Glass cleaned for one dime.
How true beauty shined;
Old west boots
made to kill,
bulletproof.

Weather record for
one 20.
A house for rent.
No land but a rusted
dent;
What Daddy didn't do
to keep this girl from
being blue's zoo....

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Little Joe, Hoss, Adam, and Ben.
I see them on the tube again.
They live in central Nevada
at a place called “Ponderosa”.

Widower Ben, and his three boys
shared their pain, as well as their joys.
We saw laughter, as well as tears, 
during a run of fourteen years.

They showed us a real frontier life,
full of adventure with some strife.
They still stand out among the best
in their exploits of the Old West....

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There were many outlaws in the old west.
But one outlaw stood out more than the rest.
And his name was Billy the kid.
He was a very fierce gun fighter, that showed no fear, or remorse on who he killed.
Billy was quick at the draw with his colt 45.
So whoever went up against billy the kid, was surely to die.
So the next time you think of a outlaw from the old west, Think about 
Billy the kid because that outlaw was one tuff cowboy....

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As a Secret Service agent in the old west,
you preceded another James and all the rest.
Your years before Mr. Bond were about four score.
Nobody like you and Artemus had come before.
Your missions were definitely not for the meek.
You and Mr. Gordon got in trouble each week.
James West, you had to be the first super spy.
When I saw your shows, I could see why.

Based on the TV show “The Wild Wild West”.
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