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Open Poetry #29

A Victim of the West

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2003-10-21 12:10 PM

I swung down from my saddle,
Wrapped the reins around a limb...
Before I reached the body,
I just knew that it was Jim.

Sprawled face down in a meadow,
Just above Fort Phantom Hill.
The arrow through his kidneys,
Showed me just how he'd been killed.

The marking were Kwahadi-
Probably Nocona's band...
Or maybe Quanah Parker's-
They'd been raiding through this land.

He wasn't mutilated...
I'd seen a lot of awful sights,
By the respect that they had shown him,
I knew he'd made a valiant fight.

Of course they took his weapons-
I would have done the same,
So I dug a shallow grave,
And on a rock I scratched his name.

I guess I could have carried him,
On south to Abilene...
To be buried among strangers,
Among folks he'd never seen.

But I think that he would rather,
Rest out where he loved it best.
Just another faceless victim,
Of the wild and violent West.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2003-10-21 04:25 AM

Nice writing...James

dingusjr
Member

since 2003-09-24

Posts 415
Missouri

2 posted 2003-10-21 05:11 AM

I can smell the sage......taste that campfire coffee. Thanks, Larry

Jason Lyle
Senior Member

since 2003-02-07

Posts 1438
With my darkling

3 posted 2003-10-21 05:33 AM

Good story telling, I enjoyed this.

Jason

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