Western Poems | Examples of Western Poetry

...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...Read the rest...

...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...Read the rest...

You 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...Read the rest...

Like 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...Read the rest...

You 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...Read the rest...

Now 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...Read the rest...

The 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 ...Read the rest...

Collaboration 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...Read the rest...

Tim 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...Read the rest...

As 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....Read the rest...

I 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...Read the rest...

What 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,...Read the rest...

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...Read the rest...

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...Read the rest...

Cowpoke 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...Read the rest...