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Poetry: Out West

• 1 of 78

  by Bobby Coles

  Heeding the call out west

  Leaving your world behind

  Seemed to be a noble quest

  Uncertain of what you would find

  Spirit

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• 2 of 78

  by Bridget Webber

  Far out west is where my heart was won

  next to a pickling cactus in the midday sun.

  It was a day when not a lizard stirred

  not

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• 3 of 78

  by Eileen Brodie

  out west

  west of the Pecos

  west of the Mississippi

  the landscape wide

  the landscape tall

  unbound by eastern convention

  western

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• 4 of 78

  by Sarah Parrish

  Out west we have
  A history all our own
  We took this land
  (Some say stole)
  And made it our home.

  It started with "Manifest Destiny"
  Chasing

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  by Victoria Rose Perkins

  "A Tribute to Mr. Horace Greeley"

  (who remained in the east his entire life!)

  "Go West, young man, go West"

  is what Horace

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Poetry: Out West