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Best Hoss Poems

Below are the all-time best Hoss poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hoss poems written by PoetrySoup members


Hoss Race
Long shot prospect
named “Reject Hoss”
bedecked with sweat.

He fell to last
‘till he passed gas
so fast, he flew!

He ran with ease.
At Jockey’s  prod,
he squeezed in front!

Forty...

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Categories: hoss, sports,
Form: Than-Bauk



Premium Member A Well-Appointed Cowpoke
A well-appointed cowpoke, of whom there are still a few,
Wanted to be properly clad for his first job interview.
So, to impress his potential and somewhat...

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Categories: hoss, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bury Me In My Jeans
"I've rode the range now fer nigh on sixty years,
Brandin' dogies and ropin' them wily Hereford steers.
When I come to the end of the trail,...

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Categories: hoss, me, old,
Form: Rhyme
This Cowboy's Done
I'll ride with you awhile, my friend
Until the wind turns cold.
I'm not as young as I once was -
Just feelin' kinda old.

I used to ride...

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Categories: hoss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Return of the Gay Knight
For my satire group, and for Will; a fairy tale

To a fanfare of horns
The young knight returned
With a tale of slain dragons to tell
The princesses...

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Categories: hoss, community, fantasy, humor, love,
Form: Rhyme



On Juno Ranch, a Cowboy's Day
If you'd have lived and worked on Juno Ranch, you’d have come away better for it. It 
may not have seemed like it at the...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hoss, cowboy-western, inspirational, life, on
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Barbed Wire
Barbed wire seems a 'thorny' subject on which to opine,
But there arose a need for such for people and beasts to confine!
Cowpokes cussed as they...

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Categories: hoss, history
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cat 5
I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin'...

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Categories: hoss, cat, dream, song,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ole Brownie (P1)
“Ole Brownie”

The meanest and the best,
Proven among the rest,
My dog in Arkansas, pope county,
I present, ole Brownie,

With first cold front,
Arkansans begin the hunt,
Razorback hogs,
with their...

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Categories: hoss, funnydog, dog,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Chow Time On the Range
"Rise an' shine you lazy cowpokes!  Time to saddle up yer hoss!
Time to move them moo-cows to summer range!" yelled th' trail boss!
"You've lolled...

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Categories: hoss, cowboy-western, funnytime, mystery, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hangin' Tree
Folks avoid that spooky place 'specially on dark and stormy nights!
Heard are eerie moans and shrieks and seen are mysterious lights!
A driftin' hoss thief by...

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Categories: hoss, cowboy-western, funny
Form: Rhyme
Wait For Me
When I was young I had a little sis.
She was dainty like any little miss.
She thought I was strong and could always do
Whatever she needed...

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Categories: hoss, family,
Form: Rhyme
Bedtime At "ike and Jane's " Sequence 5
Hi folks. The name's Ike. 
'Member me from my other writes?
check 'em out if you'd like.

Me and the Missus, Jane here, jest wanted to say...

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Categories: hoss, faith, imaginationgod, me, night,
Form: Free verse
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: hoss, cowboy-western, imagination, life, stars,
Form: Verse
A Nook and a Storybook
A Nook and a Storybook



His leg was broke and his pride hurt
As he began to read.
That knucklehead he called his hoss
Had stumbled at full speed.

"Read...

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Categories: hoss,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs