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Six Gun Poems - Poems about Six Gun

Premium MemberSTAN THE SQUIRREL

...STAN THE SQUIRREL

In Texas, there lived a squirrel named Stan,
with his six-gun, he defended the land. 
     He challenged coyotes to duels,
     and outsmarted the loca...
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Categories: six gun, 10th grade, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick

David Cherry

...His dad was a Commercial Traveller
Who went to work in a suit and tie
Didn’t have that weathered complexion
From daily working under open sky.
They lived last house in Mill Row
The village schoo...
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Categories: six gun, childhood, friend, in memoriam,
Form: Rhyme



Poems That Did Not Make the Cut

...We all have those notebooks
filled up to the top
of poems we started
but for some reason had to stop
But we never throw them away
into the trash can or shredder
because someday we’ll rewrite th...
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Categories: six gun, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

A Wannabe Cowboy

...Well, I’ve lived in this Montana country
guess it's been pert near fourteen years 
I call myself a cowboy though I ain't
punched no cows or branded no steers

Ain't broke me no fiery eyed wild s...
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Categories: six gun, humor, life, poems, poetry,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Premium MemberSix Gun

...Outlaw
Walking down the wrong path
Letting the world feel my wraith 
Wasting my time  looking in the past
Each day I think is my last
Six guns a blazing
Their eyes are glazing.
Battle worn 
B...
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Categories: six gun, angel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberPlaying Cards

...Speaking Spanish wasn't easy for a gringo like me, but I had no choice. I was playin' cards and drinkin' Mezcal at a nowhere bar in El Paso. I didn't have any money in my pockets but I was bluffing t...
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Categories: six gun, western,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSarah Neighed For Charlie Daniels

...(Quick off the top of my haid)

Da dibble go down to Georgia
A town in Texas, who knew 
He went on de run
He took his six gun
Lookin' for to doo wacka doo.

He comed across a young sure-shot
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Categories: six gun, fantasy, humor, music, myth,
Form: Lyric

The Werewolf Banditos, Part I

...I.
Bob Harney was riding upon the evening stage,
worried they’d not reach Pelltown before light did fade,
he hoped they didn’t have to spend the night camping out,
they’d heard the Arapahos were ...
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Categories: six gun, adventure, animal, conflict, dark,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberShootout, and That Wild Young Cowboy From Laramie

...Shootout, And That Wild Young Cowboy From Laramie

Her heart said, I want a cowboy from Laramie
Six-gun shooting hombre to take sweet care of me
Tender lover succumbing to my feminist wiles
Begg...
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Categories: six gun, fate, repetition, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Ringo Kady and the Cowboy

...There were six in the cylinder,
Strapped to his side,
He stood tall,
And walked with pride.

His feathered friend, Hawk,
Upon his shoulder,
No, he didn't talk,
But was so much bolder.

Out ...
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Categories: six gun, fantasy, funny, humorous, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Cowboys, Made of Awesome

...Some modern folks, when they hear his name,
will roll their eyes and look ashamed,
thinking the cowboy is uncivilized,
with his hats, and guns, and round-up rides.
That somehow they are beyond th...
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Categories: six gun, america, appreciation, celebration, fun,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Three Fine, Well-Tended Graves, Part Ii

......It was early fall when the trouble came
to the Sperry’s and the Circle-S Ranch,
a dozen bandits came riding in hard,
shooting their guns in an entrance grand,
they thought none would dare make...
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Categories: six gun, courage, family, growth, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

They Don'T Make Em Like They Use To

...They don’t make em like they use to

Seventeen shots from the old six gun
Bad guys wearing black
Robots made from cardboard boxes
Destroyed then coming back
Impossible odds in the good guy figh...
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Categories: six gun, childhood, fun, memory,
Form: Light Verse

Just Another Day

...Better don your leather chaps it's going to be a rough one
Pack extra roll caps into your Six Gun

Ask for double shots to compliment your Starbucks
All that's left now is to wish you good luck
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Categories: six gun, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme

The Quick and the Dead On Tour

...I hope to heaven that when I die
I meet Woody Guthrie in the sky
and then upon a dust-bowl cloud
we'll find the grace to sing aloud,
and that the Heavens won't debar
the using of a stringed guit...
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Categories: six gun, appreciation, art, gothic,
Form: Lyric

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