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Lawman Poems - Poems about Lawman

The Last Dance of the Caravan: A Gypsy Tragedy
...She wore a ribbon red as flame, he carved her secret in his name. They danced beneath the open skies, with stars like lanterns in their eyes. The campfire laughed, the horses swayed, the fiddl......

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Categories: lawman, baby, boy, death, fate,
Form: Metrical Tale
Sodbuster, Part I
...A sheriff I was in a small town, seen fifty years, and earned no renown, when Black Ken and his gang did come down to Mick Callahan’s big saloon. He saw I was the only law here, saw in my eyes......

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Categories: lawman, character, conflict, evil, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



He Died With A Smile, Part II
...The man shook and said, “They wanted some fun, but the boy was small, he started to bleed. Patrick threw him out back, said, ‘This one’s shot, but we have others to see to our needs.’” Dalton’s......

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Categories: lawman, abuse, angel, children, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Crapshoot
...Contest betwixt us friends had been common, Who is who? Who, here, is a true lawman? When two palms trees though compete to grow high, They do not crush the common plants nearby...! Don't, yet......

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Categories: lawman, life,
Form: Rhyme
Our Peoples' Values, Part I
...Todd was riding in the desert, through Arizona’s red-brown waste, out chasing down word of silver, it was 1878. He had nothing to go back to, never had fit in well back east, he’d left for De......

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Categories: lawman, culture, friendship, history, hope,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member High Noon- Big Dale
...A washed-up Bank robber named Big Dale Tried to rob bank, near county of vale He didn’t move as quick Got hit with a stick Lawman got word, closed fast on his ......

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Categories: lawman, western,
Form: Limerick
The Sherriff's First Day, Part Ii
......They were quite faint, most would not have seen them, just a pattern in how the grass did bend, from their looks the cowboys seemed unaware, Connolly decided to move with care. He knew not w......

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Categories: lawman, conflict, emotions, father, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Sherriff's First Day, Part I
...When Sherriff Connolly came to Red Flat’s town, Tte citizens came in from all around, they had hotly anticipated this, for too long they felt they had been helpless. Now Connolly had heard of t......

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Categories: lawman, conflict, emotions, father, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Bury Me In Datil
...West Texas is a vast, wide-open area, dusty, windy, and dry. Many a time I hid the mostly unbranded calves I took from the herd on the XIT ranch behind the tumbleweeds that had built up in the small ......

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Categories: lawman, western,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unlucky Jim , the End
...Bank robber Jim was one unlucky bloke Went to draw his gun but the holster broke It dropped on the bank floor And went off with a roar The shock was too much and he had a stroke... Though ......

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Categories: lawman, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Spaghetti - a Movie Not Made
...Smoke signals rise from Sitting Duck cavern In town the Pitt gang are trashing the tavern John Wayne strolled in and he ain’t here to dance They say that he walked like he just sh*t his pants D......

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Categories: lawman, america, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Two Parents and a Squealing Pig
...There once was a tiny wee child who's mum taught what's bad and what's good. Who grew to be a champion, to right wrongs wherever they could So when this person was accused, they trusted in the......

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Categories: lawman, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
The Lawman's Son
...There was a man who was A giant over his brothers. He was a fighter not a lover, Always in a brawl forevermore. His name was Cain. And countrywide was his fame. Everyone knew his name. Oh, t......

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Categories: lawman, conflict, father son, sad,
Form: Narrative
The Island
...we sailed to the island, the island, the island and would stay there evermore with nothing to read but coconuts and cocoa berries upon the tree with no barber, Dennis or lawman things could ghet......

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Categories: lawman, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stranger With a Badge
...Verse 1 Stranger rode into town, A stern look on his face, Gave thought to his grim task, Sworn duty on his mind and dismounted. Verse 2 Examined his two six guns, Moseyed to ho......

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Categories: lawman, conflict, death, song,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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