Western Poems | Examples of Western Poetry
Western Poems - Examples of all types of poems about western to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for western.
Sinter's Cross, Part III...Since that day there has been a cross
perched high atop the bluff,
and when the town grew up they thought
they should show him their love.
That’s how we became Sintertown,
their way to show respect,
when the first cross...
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Categories:
western, conflict, courage, death, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Sinter's Cross, Part II...A warrior shrieked, pitched sideways,
bled when he hit the ground,
the Apache spurred their horses,
looking to flank around.
But John expected such a thig,
he looked right and saw one,
the Indian jerked violently,
bullet through his eardrum.
Just them a...
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Categories:
western, conflict, courage, death, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Sinter's Cross, Part IYou see that there? That’s Sinter’s Cross,
on the bluff by the stream,
a cross has stood there with his name
since eighteen eighty-three.
That was the year John Sinter fell,
but I’ll not skip ahead,
I’ll do it right and...
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Categories:
western, conflict, courage, death, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
A Dime Store NovelLike a dime store novel her perrinial love
Blooming like a sunlit posie
The year was 1933 and this young anunew
Naieve girl with nothing to prove
held a heart ache for her first love...
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Categories:
western, first love, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bull Riding SonnetYou see the young man settle in the gate,
helmet on his head, armor on his chest,
the big, gray bull rustles, showing his hate,
they call him Lightning, they say he’s the best.
Rider grabs a hold, the...
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Categories:
western, america, animal, anxiety, crazy,
Form: Sonnet
Ballad of a ScandalNow let's begin
This tale I'll spin
Took it on the chin
Never thought I'd win
Honeysuckle
Boot belt buckle
Scraped up knuckle
Raspy chuckle
Kicked my ass
Soft green grass
Still I sass
This too shall pass
Knew I'd lose
It was no...
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Categories:
betrayal, passion, western,
Form: I do not know?
THE SADDLEThe guy sold the saddle off his rack
To a two-bid gunslinger named Pack
Who held out his gun
And dared him to run
Then shot the shirt off his back
...
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Categories:
western,
Form: Rhyme
The ElegyCollaboration of poems
I have looked away books to read
then I realized I can't utter a word
All of them told I can't read
Then I chose to write
I smiled and smiled and I wrote
Come again to me...
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Categories:
anxiety, war, water, western,
Form: Elegy
Only Slade's BrainTim was the new judge in Deadwood Flat
Not really qualified, just a rancher at that
He first case was of the outlaw, Horace Slade
Caught red handed in a cattle raid
The jury took ten minutes to recommend...
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Categories:
humor, time, western,
Form: Lyric
WHY SOME FOLKS HATE PEACEAs millions of kind folks claim peace , wicked folks usually refuse.
As they benefit billions dollars from the bloods of millions of folks.
Word "peace" seems dengerous bombs to terminate their evil businesses....
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Categories:
western, bullying, business, evil, humanity,
Form: Monoku
ColoradoI love it so
but stay away …
the mountains
prairies and streams
Each morning
the magic unveiling again
each night
a sky covered in dreams
I love it so
but stay away …
the cry of the wolf
in the snow
A warning to...
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Categories:
western,
Form: Rhyme
The West is the BestWhat is nowadays West, in a moment of relaxation
While you wait for the green on a crossroad:
Impressions dissolve in stuffiness, preceding rainfall,
Although there are no other signs of rain.
Poor Jim Morrison, the whole generation
Of melancholic,...
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Categories:
deep, faith, introspection, western,
Form: Free verse
Vanishing Buffalo
They thundered across the fertile plains,
Those hardened hooves, those tangled manes,
But now the Buffalo can't be found.
They thundered across the fertile plains.
The...
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Categories:
animal, western,
Form: Triolet
Greener on the Other Side of the Fence
He wears thick gloves when he strings the barbed wire,
fashioning a thorny fence from prickly metal spines,
reminding me that cattle like to know the boundaries,
the edges of a pasture, clever green grass hesitating
on the borders...
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Categories:
western, animal, appreciation, endurance, green,
Form: Free verse
CowpokeCowpoke
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16
Sleep, old man...
your day has long since passed.
The endless plains,
cool midnight rains
and changeless ragged cows
alone remain
of what once was.
You cannot know
just how the Change
will rape the windswept plains
that you...
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Categories:
western, evil, heart, home, poems,
Form: Rhyme
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