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Best Bedroll Poems

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Premium Member 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...

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Categories: bedroll, adventure, cowboy-western, lost love,
Form: Ballad



Faces In the Night
When the campfire’s out and you try to sleep,
But things don’t seem just right—
You toss and turn on that ol’ hard bedroll
And see faces in...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bedroll, confusion, cowboy-western, death, imagination,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Sum Day Up Thar
Ah done cum frum tha ol' times
Whar we's jist roams free
I's gots a gun, a hoss un grub
'Un bedroll 'neath a tree.

Sum times ah jist...

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Categories: bedroll, cowboy-western, imagination, life, stars,
Form: Verse
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: bedroll, adventurenight, night, drug,
Form: Verse
The Cowboy Way
I’ve ridden many a trail in my life & regrets I have few
For I lived the life I chose & to the Cowboy way stayed...

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Categories: bedroll, cowboy-western, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



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...

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Categories: bedroll, life,
Form: Verse
God Must Be a Cowboy
He must sit back and just smile at sunsets;
The colors and quiet must give him great joy—
As do the sweet sage and morning violets;
God must...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bedroll, cowboy-western, faith, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
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...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bedroll, adventure, environment, image, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member When Hate Erupts
Pierced by splinters of bright sunlight,
my eyelids open as I wake.
My bedroll barely kept me warm,
I am hungry, and my bones ache.

Belongings few, I fear...

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Categories: bedroll, abuse, angst, emotions, hurt,
Form: Quatrain
The Old Night Herder's Dance
(2nd part continued)

Then late one night before coosie did howl,
I woke up and took me a walk by chance,
Down by the sleepin’ cow herd and...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bedroll, cowboy-western, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: bedroll, heartbreak, heartbroken, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Candle Lit Walls
Winter winds rattle window panes,
yet, no tenant ever complains.
And shadows on candlelit walls
flicker; as the flame flares and falls.
A worn blanket that's paid its toll
substitutes...

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Categories: bedroll, angst, anxiety, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
"drivin' Christmas"
As the sun starts to rise,
This cowboy opens his eyes,
Dew trapped in the mornin' frost.
I thank God for my freedom,
All the times I need 'im,
I...

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© Jw Fellers  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bedroll, cowboy-westerngod, god,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Haltingly With Excite
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                 She laid poised
     ...

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Categories: bedroll, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: bedroll, 10th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs