Best Howdy Poems

Meeting my homegirls Wilma Neels
and Kim Van Breda with shrieks and squeals
hasty introductions and we're on our way
for a night of reading at Poetry Café

We've...

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This life has been but a carnival 

Ride within many ways its circus 

Amid silent reels; crimson hues...

Surreal it would seem if it were

Yet only...

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The unsung heroes of the open plains
The outlaw bandits like Jesse James 

Cut throat thieves and black jack hustlers 
Green horn Cowboys and long horn...

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"Howdy to you all from Colorado!  This is Cletus Schlunk reporting,
Where gossip is fair and balanced and there is little or no distorting!
It's the...

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For Richard Lamoureux's "Any line" contest.  


Richard Seale-d Door's line:  slammed shut are the doors in "A mind made up".


You told me before
slammed...

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Be too kind. Err on the nice side.
Howdy-do neighbor! Smile wide.
Keep your eggs on the sunny-side.
If you run into Bonnie and Clyde?
Remember this— don’t hitch...

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Not for The Howdy Partner Contest




How many times, have you found,

yourself, walking down the street

Stetson on your head

and cowhide on your feet

Trying to rustle up

a...

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I thought I’d write a limerick
(As sonnets now just make me sick)
But can’t for all the friggin’ rules
That always trip up southern fools;
So, thus, a...

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Leading his horse in the heat of the day
Been gone a long time but he still knows the way
Just a few shacks when he went...

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Howdy folks. The name's Ike 
and I'd like to send a refrain.
along with the Mrs.,
Her name is Jane.
Some of you nice folks know us,
and some...

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“Howdy Amos”, “Howdy Seth”, without a glance.
Amos t’aint much for words as he stares straight ahead
His gaze as straight as his furrows.
Amos is what you...

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And how was my youth spent?
what a shadow of a childhood
lived with daydreams in the sunshine
Punch and Judy, Howdy Doody
drunken snows and cancelled Christmas
Fifties fever...

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The Lone Ranger came to visit me last night... 

He was perfect, his shiny six-guns 
hanging from his hip, and the mask 
to protect his...

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There was a venturous gent
Who travelled the earth’s extent
But at the North Pole
It took quite a toll
Deciphering their accent

It started when he heard elves
Discussing amongst...

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I used to smile
With the best of them
But now for awhile
My grins been thin
When you see the world 
And the shape it's in
With an insanity...

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