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Wagon Train Poems - Poems about Wagon Train

Premium Member my wild west came in on a tv set
...Marshall Dillon in Gunsmoke Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates in Rawhide Paladin Have Gun will Travel John Wayne in bunches of westerns the pattern was easy.... The cowboys always win Hero wears a ......

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Categories: wagon train, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member read a book once
...Read a book once Folded the corners To mark my progress. It was sort of a Wagon train read Long, torturous, A seemingly endless quest For an unknown destination Pictured only in the minds O......

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Categories: wagon train, books, football, high school,
Form: Free verse



Who Remember the Good Ole Days
...Only the Real OG's will remember. All of these old movies are from back in the day. Some of you will remember and some of you won't have a clue of what I am talking about. Let's go down memory la......

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Categories: wagon train, change, growing up, life,
Form: Narrative
His Place
... He is on his riding mower. He looks like me, only he owns a rich man's house, a garden measured in acres - his skin is better. No picket fences: this is upscale America. Long drives and o......

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Categories: wagon train, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fast Forward-A
...Like a slow-moving westbound wagon train in 1887, filled with brave souls departing a land of nightmares; or like a 13-year-old in no-man's-land looking at 18 and wishing he could push a button ca......

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Categories: wagon train, america, poverty, time,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member My Favourite Cowboys
...There was a day on TV When westerns were all the rage Together our masked hero the Lone Ranger with Tonto kept outlaws in their cage Wagon Train kept rolling along Seth Adams the leader Flint......

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Categories: wagon train, film, memory, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dream Driven
...Was the worst behind or before them? They could imagine, but they never knew. I never thought much of it back then, back there. I was just a boy enjoying the weekly television show. It was a ......

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Categories: wagon train, america, dream,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Beauty of the Rainbows
...In the summertime there were lots of cars and trucks moving up and down Cherry alley where I lived. Like the local bakery truck, many would stop to peddle their wares or deliver their goods. Their en......

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Categories: wagon train, beauty, celebration, color, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
His Place
...He is on his riding mower. He looks like me, only he owns a rich man's house, a garden measured in acres - his skin is better. No picket fences; this is upscale America. Long drives and old sto......

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Categories: wagon train, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Western Stars
...An old black and white movie took me back to my childhood when cowboys rode the range Major Adams and Flint McCullough leading the Wagon Train, and Hopalong's ten-gallon white hat rode the b......

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Categories: wagon train, analogy, stars, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tex-Mex-Afro Eyes Are Upon You and You
...Wandering the maze of sanity has now become a harsh challenge to the psyche as insanity fuels itself with echoing bigotry soaring like starving hawks while vultures are daily treated to sights......

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Categories: wagon train, america, conflict, death, metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
The Tragedy of Celestina, Part Ii
......It was two days before she lost them, and an arrow slashed her small finger, a small wagon train did take her in, but a doctor found gangrene in her, chopped her pinkey with barely a word. Fe......

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Categories: wagon train, absence, heartbreak, history, journey,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Shifting the Power In Venus
...Proudly the white tummies purposefully sauntered forth Orange arrow beaks decidedly pointed Stubby feet not nearly strong enough to hold them up Yellow mirrored eyeballs, reflecting the sun In......

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Categories: wagon train, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Classic T V
...Classic T V William Tell, Robin Hood, Ena Sharples in the snug, Gibbs SR whiter teeth, Billy Bunter getting grief, Hawkeye, Ivanhoe, Twelve-inch screen full of snow. Range rider, Wagon Tr......

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Categories: wagon train, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Things Change
...A quote from "90 North" by Randall Jarrell: "I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from darkness -- that the darkness flung me -- is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, Th......

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Categories: wagon train, age, best friend, boy,
Form: Narrative

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