Yuma Poems

Premium Member3:10 to Yuma - 1957 Version Summary

...Surviving in this kind of weather,
with a man made from chicken feather
causes me to sometimes wonder,
"Why does that dang fool hear thunder?"
I think we'd be better off instead
if that guy woul...
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Categories: yuma, film, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUXJ UYX UDED UYD UYT UYM

...NONE OFTHEE ABOVE SOUNDS LIKE SOMEBODY GOT CAUGHT UP IN BUMPIN AUDIO ON LEWIS STREET THE FBI SENT ME TO BUY PAGERS YEARS AGO I LEFT TOWN NEVER EVER LOOKED BACK SO DON'T THREATENING ME WITH THAT BULL ...
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Categories: yuma, allah,
Form: Naat


Premium Member Milton Creek, Another Chapter

...The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking was lingering in the morning air
Words alone can...
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Categories: yuma, america, western,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberJailbreak At Milton Creek

...There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail 
That day Queeny Holly and her gang rode into town, guns blazing ...
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Categories: yuma, america, humor, violence,
Form: Narrative

Halona

...My dancing spirit traveled with the wind to prepare a way for Yuma.

My spirit travels with the wind over the tall pine trees, the mighty oak trees, and the grassy knolls, past the Mississippi, and...
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Categories: yuma, spiritual,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThe Dingo Kid

...Beware of the dingo and watch out for your goat,
he hates our current leader, but is unable to vote.
He’s been doing hard time for relations with a horse,
he finally escaped but then he was caught...
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Categories: yuma, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAnother Chapter From Milton Creek-The Arrest of the Dingo Kid

...Sheriff Koplin was talking with Tom on how it had been a quiet week
Not one crime had been reported for the town of Milton Creek
Then a US Marshal knocked on the door and then came inside
Said...
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Categories: yuma, america, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Tale of Reina Yuma Rogan

...Don’t let her smile fool ya, she’ll make ya crawl
If looks could kill, she’d burn a hole through y’all 
She’s a fiery philly
Saloon owners aren’t silly
Cayote ugly’s bar none, warned don’...
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Categories: yuma, humor,
Form: Limerick

Exerpt From Halona

...Cumulus clouds drifted leisurely across the azure sky. The sun smiled warmly

at the earth and called to the naked perennial trees and bushes, and soft

soil of the earth to propagate. Several bo...
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Categories: yuma, lost,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTim Ryerson

...FOOTLES FOR THE BIRDS AND THE BEASTS - 

Bad-*** old bear:
    Grizzly
    Grizzly

Dachshund making critical life choices:
     Eenie
     Weenie...

Cougar from Arizona:
    Yuma
    Pu...
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Categories: yuma, hilarious, humor, tribute,
Form: Footle

May They Live On

...Mohawk, Mandan, Kikapu, Cree,
Yakoma,Seminole, Crow,Shawnee.
Arapaho, Chippewa and Sioux,
Mystical names to me and you.
Names like Delaware, Fox and Paiute,
Listen to their music on the flute.
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Categories: yuma, america, discrimination, eulogy, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme

A Compilation of Fickle Foolish Footles

...FOOTLES FOR THE BIRDS AND THE BEASTS - 

Bad-ass old bear:
    Grizzly
    Grizzly

Dachshund making critical life choices:
     Eenie
     Weenie...

Cougar from Arizona:
    Yuma
    Pu...
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Categories: yuma, funny,
Form: Footle

The Westerns of Tv Land

...I was watching the TV the other day
When a certain Rerun began to play.
It brought me back to one of my brain's stifled bans
Because it was about Lucas McCain...the Rifleman.

All of a sudden I ...
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Categories: yuma, hero, memory, remember, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Sammy Baker Charlie 4

...Sammy Baker Charlie 4, he's on my tail
like a grateful whore,
guns are blazing, cannon shells spew
it's a hell of a fight over Dien Ben Phu

and this Russian mig's amazing, they 
never seem to ...
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Categories: yuma, veterans day, war,
Form: Free verse

Footles For the Birds and the Beasts

...Bad-ass old bear:
Grizzly
Grizzy

Cougar from Arizona:
Yuma
Puma

Cowardly Cock-a-Doodle-Doer:
Chicken
Chicken

Un-cool Terrier:
Dorky
Yorkie

Larcenous bird:
Robbin'
Robin

Slave...
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Categories: yuma, animal, funny,
Form: Footle

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