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West Poems - Poems about West

Silence of the West
Clouds of smoke billowed over ruined buildings That once were homes safe and welcoming. Schools where children were learning, Hidden now from view by dust clouds billowing. Out of the dust men came with guns began to fire, Indiscriminate in who they killed mothers, fathers. Such a wailing of grief rose to the...

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Categories: west, anger, child, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
My Last Day in Ogalala
Road work had been finished for the winter on an asphalt strip north of town near a nature preserve. I said good-bye to the hotel owner and he invited me back although the town was a lifetime away from my home. We shook hands. The town wore its history well with a façade of an old west town complete with a jail and post...

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Categories: west, adventure, appreciation, change, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sagebrush of the West
Bouquet of the West, It's not easy to pass. Flower of the desert, Ruthless rout of the grass. Painters see the art In rolling mass of spheres. Fortress of the desert Where stout sagebrush appears. A deer's dainty feet Will find a way to pass, To walk through desert sagebrush, Sole welcomed to trespass...

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Categories: west, environment,
Form: Rhyme
The Wooden Towers of the West
They built their kingdoms not on truth, But on blood and stolen youth. Their riches rose on broken backs, Their glory paved with cold attacks. Not thought, not craft, nor honest toil, But looted lands and foreign spoil. Their minds, not forged in sacred fire, But fed by greed and false empire. They called it freedom — masked in chains, Their system thrives on...

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Categories: west, death,
Form: Free verse
The Last Sunset of the West
The sun once set on distant lands, Where empires carved the world with hands, Of steel and smoke and hollow pride, But now those shadows start to hide. The West, in golden robes once dressed, Now stumbles toward its final rest, Its towers tall, its markets vast, Are echoes of a fading past. Beneath the heat of rising suns, The Global South now walks...

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Categories: west, abuse,
Form: Free verse



Sunrise
I think the sun rises not from the east— but from your stomach Nor does it sink from the west— but returns to your stomach When I touched it I truly understood the work of art that God created...

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Categories: west, allah, beauty, eulogy, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Little West Indian River History
"There's a river meandering through the mind," older than the Englishmen who raised a bridge over its Constitution, a nude Indian sped away from a warring Englishman behind absconding by canoe to an adjacent isle but smallpox caught the indie afore ammunition "There's a river meandering through the mind," that witnessed the grapes of wrath in '37 and suffered its wine,...

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Categories: west, city, history, nature, river,
Form: Free verse
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 light hat Villain is stuck with black hat Indians never win TV in the 60’s gave me new terms Dance hall girl, sage brush, wagon train I reminisce about the wild west I...

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Categories: west, technology,
Form: Free verse
West Philippine Sea
A vast, restless blue, a heart that beats with the monsoon's pulse, a frontier, where sky and water wrestle, and islands, like scattered jewels, catch the sun's fire. Not just a sea, but a story etched in currents, a tapestry of tides, woven with the whispers of fishermen, and the silent, watchful gaze, of ancient reefs. A battleground of breath, where waves clash against the shore, a symphony of...

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Categories: west, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 41D North-49D West
In April of nineteen twelve, a ship set sail so grand, A tale of wealth and power, a journey well-planned. Warnings were ignored, the ship sped through the night, Men on duty sleeping, Californian unaware of Titanic's plight. Steel and iron rivets, a mix of strength and flaw, A lie repeated often enough will often escape the law A plan, some...

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Categories: west, boat, death, sea, water,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member PANGIE’s MEETING WITH GEORGE CHAKIRIS Of WEST SIDE STORY
4/3/2025 No, it was not a dream at all…. I was with George Chakiris by my personal request. No,I was not in with crazed teeny boppers in a hall. It was just George and I, from whom, I chose to learn from the best! I wish I could tell you...

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Categories: west, chicago, remember,
Form: Rhyme
West Bay
The sun beat down on a languid sea as a million diamonds danced and sparkled on the surface of the water. The red-tinged cliff hung over the beach, threatening to envelop an unwary walker. Above, the sky was so bright and blue, whilst on the horizon a misty hue. The rolling hills are so verdant yet bleak, with small...

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Categories: west, beach, beautiful, seasons, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member War Within A Psychic Mind
The voice to skull, a ceaseless chant/ Echoes rise, but I shan't recant/ Technology presses, it tries to control/ Yet my psychic mind remains whole/ They yield body possession, twisting form/ Emotion manipulation, their raging storm/ But through astral wars, where shadows creep/ Unyielding, undefeated, my soul does leap/ Assassins strike, yet I defy/ Surviving wounds beneath the sky/ They call me the Antichrist/ A beast...

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Categories: west, bullying, character, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Syncronicity'
What do you see.? Conflict in Isreal, and knife attacks; also some by car so far.' France Sweden, Britian Germany, in the main By foreigen national asylum seekers.' Is this just madness Or could there be a pattern.? As it is in the Middle-East' so in The west so it shall be.? For that is what presents itself'...

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Categories: west, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member WEST COAST JAZZ
You can smell jazz, if you got hip to the sound, like on “Camera Three” a TV program in the 50s/ a 1956 episode featuring The Gerry Mulligan Quartet in black -N- white/ many jazz clubs come and go dimming their lights in the sunset glow/ fast food joints now line...

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Categories: west, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

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