Glad To Be Here
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Glad to be here next to morning
where the sun shines like a sign
Augur moments made for singing
old refrains of songs of time
Belting out she aims to rhyme
It's an honor to be part ...
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Categories:
chaw, appreciation,
Form: Quintain (English)
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
chaw, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Revelator
...I am the link to the god all mighty
The grand master of this world
Dollar marks and social security carts
I am the warrior of this waste
The revelator of the word made to taste
The most high,...
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Categories:
chaw, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Vagabond
...Sittin’ in th’ saddle. Gotta soon skedaddle.
School marm says she’ll tattle. Sheriff wants a battle.
Kissed her on the cheek jes’ to git a li’l peek
at her widow’s peak ‘cause she’s purty an’ pet...
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Categories:
chaw, conflict, horse, how i
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
chaw, adventure, appreciation, bullying, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Song of a Son With Dark Brown Teeth
...Chicory chew chew, tobakky chaw
I love my pappy. I love my ma.
Spit in a tin can, straight from my jaw
Chicory chew chew, tobakky chaw....
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Categories:
chaw, father, love, mother, my
Form: Lyric
Sweet Tea
...She never gave up that recipe, the
boys' favorite iced tea, made
smooth and sweet. Women
sit in the kitchen going over
coupons and recipes, regurgitating
the latest gossip heard in the
pew be...
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Categories:
chaw, america, drink, sweet love,
Form: Free verse
Her Wuthering Letters
...You get to a point where
you can’t read them anymore
and consider yourself a grown-up.
But it wasn’t until I was fifty-two
that I threw them away.
How long could they hide
in a high scho...
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Categories:
chaw, love,
Form: Free verse
A Cowboy's Journal
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A Cowboy's Journal
By: Tom Wright
10/10/98
The old corral stands,
silver and smooth from no care.
From years of neglect,
in the crisp mountain air.
Earlier covered with frost
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Categories:
chaw, christmas, friendship, horse, winter,
Form: Lyric
Cowboy Howdy the Clown Goes Home
...Cowboy Howdy the Clown still goes
To town with ten little shoes on his toes
Purple hair and a square blue nose
Ten grey flowers for Cimarron Rose
An itty bitty teeny weeny cowboy hat
Vaquero ch...
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Categories:
chaw, animal, home, humorous, nursery
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Kind Words Meant
...Kind words meant
Through love spent,
Devotion true,
A fun love brew
Charging ahead in a double bed
A past full of trials
That breeds future miles
We are kids at play
Random, awkward, silly,...
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Categories:
chaw, love, lust, marriage, youth,
Form: I do not know?
Ode To Men That Meet the Week
...When auld friends meet,
To chaw and waste,
And barmaid brings,
The Lad's the taste.
The more the taste,
The more the waste,
And under breath, the wives will curse when call for grace.
But wi...
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Categories:
chaw, celebration, cheer up, drink,
Form: Ode
The Moral
...Chocolate Molten Cake dessert for two
Layered Devil's Food Cake fluffy and rich
In the center chocolate oozes through
Frozen vanilla ice cream does the trick
A little to cleanse the palate ...
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Categories:
chaw, family, food,
Form: Terza Rima
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:
chaw,
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:
chaw,
Form: Rhyme
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