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Death Cowboy Poetry Poems

These Death Cowboy Poetry poems are examples of Cowboy Poetry poems about Death. These are the best examples of Cowboy Poetry Death poems written by international poets.


I Don't Know What to Say to Katie Clemens
I Don’t Know What To Say To Katie Clemens
By Steve Body
Copyright 2009


I don’t know what to say to Katie Clemens.
All the words are jumbled in...

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Categories: cowboy poetry, death, death of a



Premium Member Billy the Kid's Sister
"Born William Henry McCarty, Jr. AKA, Billy the Kid or El Chivito, (Billy Goat/Kid). He had a younger brother named Joseph, and they both had...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother,

He Died With A Smile, Part V
...He fell to the snow, choking his last breath,
Dalton watched despite his own fading strength,
Barnes dismounted and walked over to him,
said, “I see that you...

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Categories: abuse, angel, children, dark,

He Died With A Smile, Part IV
He saw a girl wearing only one shoe,
and drew the other one from his pocket,
tied it on her foot, and said to the girl,
“You have...

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Categories: abuse, anger, children, dark,

He Died With A Smile, Part III
He followed this path for half a mile,
found himself high up on a cold platform.
The trail split, one went across the mesa,
the other went right,...

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Categories: abuse, anger, children, dark,



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...

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Categories: abuse, angel, children, dark,

He Died With A Smile, Part I
Dalton lived in the north Texas plain,
working a ranch he owned for five years,
a small spread, but it brought some money in,
some solace after all...

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Categories: abuse, anger, children, dark,

Forgive This Old Cowboy
I’ve run long and hard down this trail we call life
it’s been filled with heartache and been filled with strife
I've taken some things with my...

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Categories: poems, poetry,

Ridin' Drag
When your ride’n drag through the swelterin’ heat,
and you've bout had all the dust one-man can eat.
When the sweat’s running down from collar to boot,
just...

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Categories: poems, poetry,

Ghost
Ghost
   
Living with ghost of yesterday's past

holding on won't bring them back,

moving on doesn't mean you forget,

but allows your broken heart to heal.

Keep...

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Categories: death, son,

Our Peoples' Values, Part Ii
...Todd was surprised by his stern eyes,
he seemed serious about it.
Todd said, “There’s a town two days on,
my horse can take double a bit.

“But I...

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Categories: culture, friendship, history, hope,

The Sherriff's First Day, Part Iii
...“My mother said he did it to survive,
the farm was failing, the crops wouldn’t thrive,
he had to find money, so rode with them,
so desperate he’d...

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Categories: conflict, emotions, father, history,

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...

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Categories: conflict, emotions, father, history,

Ride the Western Winds, Part Ii
...Eventually his lost child
grew up and turned eighteen,
and his ex-wife wed a doctor,
to whom she could be mean.
Bob finally had some life back,
but just about...

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Categories: death, desire, dream, longing,

Ride the Western Winds, Part I
When Robert was a small child
he watched those brave cowboys
riding across the TV screen,
their exploits he enjoyed.
The horses, guns, and shinny stars,
the ever stylin’ hat…
It...

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Categories: death, desire, dream, longing,


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