A Shadowed Darkened Course
...A Shadowed, Darkened Course
by M. Griswold
10272020
I evoke a tale of a shadowed, darkened course.
Where death rides atop his ghostly gray horse.
He's astraddle his saddle with searching evil ...
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Categories:
astraddle, 8th grade, death, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Saddle Sore
...While riding my bike down a lane
I felt an incredible pain
I was astraddle
Without my saddle
That's something I won't do again!...
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Categories:
astraddle, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Hank's Scruffy Boots
...Hank rested his boots on the railin' of the bunkhouse when day was done.
The pointy-toes of his scruffy boots framed the slowly settin' sun.
He leaned back in his rockin' chair, his hands embracin'...
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Categories:
astraddle, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Life's Valued Treasures
...Life's valued treasures, I hold most dear,
the ones that dwell deep within my heart.
There's a special memory from younger days
that I will share with you, and fondly impart.
When I thi...
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Categories:
astraddle, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
A Mule Named Jack
...Now its purty well knowed that cowpokes prefer to ride a horse,
An' movin' pitchers show 'em astride prancin' horses of course.
But Hank, a cow-puncher fer many years ain't like th' usual pack;
He...
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Categories:
astraddle, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Rock On
...A Welsh Girl who loved Rock 'N Roll
Had little or no self-control
She flew off to France
Where she split her pants
Astraddle Le Grand Merhin Dol...
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Categories:
astraddle, french, funny, sexy,
Form: Limerick
Fiddle Faddle
...Have you heard about cowpoke Clapsaddle?
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He rode fer years on his horse astraddle.
His legs was badly bowed,
And he walked pigeon-toed.
Oddly he named his h...
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Categories:
astraddle, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Hank's Last Roundup
...Hank had cowboyed on the Triple T Ranch fer nigh on fifty years.
He'd rode the range herdin' beef peerin' betwixt his hoss's ears.
Durin' cattle stampedes he'd broke bones and many a time was throw...
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Categories:
astraddle, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboy
...He crawled from his bunk stiflin' a hearty yawn.
His work began each day at the very crack of dawn.
He donned his jeans, chaps and old slouch hat,
Pulled on his cowboy boots and strapped on his gat!
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Categories:
astraddle,
Form: Rhyme
Buck's Five Dollar Saddle
...The ol' saddle warn't much to look at but it was all Buck could afford.
He paid Billy five bucks fer it when Billy died and loped to his eternal reward!
The saddle fit his hoss Dan like an ol' shoe a...
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Categories:
astraddle,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboy Poet
...Slim was pigeon-toed and bow-legged from allus bein' astraddle,
Of his faithful hoss Old Dan and his well-worn creakin' saddle!
He'd spent 30 years gazin' twixt Old Dan's ears ridin' the spread.
Now ...
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Categories:
astraddle,
Form: Rhyme
Hank's Waterloo
...Cowpoke Hank hired on fer a dollar a day and found.
He wuz knowed as the best bronc-buster around!
They wuz allus a roll-yer-own a-danglin' frum his lips,
And he wore a pair of 44 shootin' arns on hi...
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Categories:
astraddle, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Real Colorady Cowboy
...We stopped fer a bite at the Gooseberry Patch, I reckon it wuz a week er so ago.
I wuz slurpin' my usual bowl uv chili - Boys! That stuff'll set yer ears aglow!
My spouse wuz toyin with her salad a...
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Categories:
astraddle, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
There's a Horse In Our Garage
...Of all the horses I have known,
And I have known a few,
It's of Rebel, my daughter's first loved horse
That I'll be telling you.
Her girl friends on the nearby farms
Had horses theirs to ride.
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Categories:
astraddle, animalsdaughter, dad, age, age,
Form: Narrative
Jonah
...The sonorous voice of God woke Jonah from his siesta one fine day,
Saying, "Arise! Get ye to Nineveh and I'll brook no delay!
I've volunteered you to go there and preach in that wicked town,
The p...
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Categories:
astraddle, funnygod, god,
Form: Rhyme
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