'gain to mine bedroll
....
in yourn dome
you hear your favorite
cha cha
and your eyne
they see the
1980'z
...
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Categories:
bedroll, allegory, beautiful, blessing, sensual,
Form: Carpe Diem
Haltingly With Excite
....
She laid poised
'pon mine bedroll
Eyne beaming
lips
displaying
with sweet wide s...
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Categories:
bedroll, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse
A Real Cowboy
...I always wanted to be a real cowboy.
A Buck-a-rue with scars on my cheeks and worn boots,
I wanted my spurs to jingle and my saddle to creak and
deep lines and sun burned skin decorating my face,...
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Categories:
bedroll, black african american, career,
Form: Rhyme
Teanaway Valley
...An old Point Man phoned, “Do ya think you can do it?.
Driving doggies and cows from the flanks of Mt. Stewart?"
Fattened on grass for a year they had stayed.
“Move a river of horns down to Yaki...
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Categories:
bedroll, peace, river,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Cowboy Lover
..."I didn't want to break your heart.
I had no thought of that at all,
When I told you I'd be leaving
Right after roundup time this fall.
A cowboy's life is lonely,
A saddle, bridle and a horse,
...
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Categories:
bedroll, heartbreak, heartbroken, horse,
Form: Rhyme
You Can Run But You Cant Hide
...
You Can Run,
But,
You Can't Hide
By: Tom Wright
1/5/02
Neath the brackish waters of life's tossing sea,
where daily perils lurk, and seaweed's bind.
My soul shan't worry, for God i...
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Categories:
bedroll, god, prayer,
Form: Lyric
Beautiful Sadness
...Jubilant shoppers scamper down the street
looking for super sales on Christmas Eve.
And holiday smiles greet all friends they meet
feigning they’re in a hurry to leave.
It was snowing t...
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Categories:
bedroll, 10th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet
Footsteps Echo Deep
...A homeless man shivers as the sun sinks,
while sleep tries to avoid dreams of freezing.
Steam from a sewer grate grants forty winks
as he lies on it, coughing and wheezing.
In his head,...
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Categories:
bedroll, 9th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Quatrain
Gatekeepers of the Land of the Free
...From what I have seen
America is a well-oiled machine
Our military always ready to fight
Together with so much might
Leaving their homes night after night
Saying goodbye believing it's not your ...
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Categories:
bedroll, military,
Form: Narrative
Candle Lit Walls
...Winter winds rattle window panes;
yet no one there ever complains.
And shadows on candlelit walls
flicker as the flame flares and falls.
A blanket with a stitched-up hole;
substitutes fo...
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Categories:
bedroll, angst, anxiety, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
When Hate Erupts
...My lids, pierced by splinters of light;
I rub my eyes as I awake.
And though my bedroll kept me warm,
I am hungry, and my bones ache.
Belongings few; I fear their loss,
for they're all...
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Categories:
bedroll, abuse, angst, emotions, hurt,
Form: Quatrain
The Ride
...THE RIDE
I got a horse named Sam, a dog named Joe,
and my old Chevy truck.
In the front of my trailer is my saddle and bridle
with a horseshoe thrown in for luck.
Got my bedroll and boots,...
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Categories:
bedroll, life,
Form: Verse
A Cowboy's Life
...You could see the lone figure in the pale, fading light,
Bedding down the doggies for a restful night.
He had been in the saddle since early morn',
Now feeling the aches of the drive that made h...
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Categories:
bedroll, adventure, environment, image, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
A Cowboy's Life
...I didn't want to break your heart,
I had no thought of that at all,
When I told you I'd be leaving
Right after roundup time this fall.
A cowboy's life is lonely,
With saddle, bridle and his ho...
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Categories:
bedroll, adventure, cowboy-western, lost love,
Form: Ballad
Two Thousand and Twenty Three Part 2
...When night came, the cattle bedded down
And the night riders making their rounds
Samuel would take a strole to the chuck wagon
And Cookie would hand him his cup of coffee
As he savored it's t...
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Categories:
bedroll, adventurenight, night, drug,
Form: Verse
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