Angst Cowboy Poems

I ride to the store on horseback and saddle,
I Leave him outside its distasteful to ride indoors,
My horse stays there it waits it needs no...

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V.
Besides a rushing stream he saw a stone hut,
framed by aspens clinging to a rough slope,
the chimney was stained from long years of use,
But who...

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IV.
But the jokes all stopped cold six months later
when her belly swelled up, big, full, and round.
It was a scandal, her dad was enraged,
a rash...

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III.
She settled into life the best she could,
wanted for nothing, but found her life boring.
Thankfully her pa wasn’t much around,
when he wasn’t at work, he...

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II.
“Do you mean to say Arthur Hauser’s your dad?”
he asked he with a steely countenance.
She somehow managed to bluster a “Yes,
and you’ll run from here...

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I.
Rennie Hauser gazed out of the window
as the stage slowly trundled down the road,
the sun beat hard on the towering peaks
that ran across northern Colorado.

She...

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A nightmare
 after something I'd had, 
a cowboy film,
 the late-night news
 and Cervantes at bedtime.

On a spavined jade
the last of all the cowboys
with lean...

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Holidays Together

We stand tall next to each other, 
in the choir before Our Lord. 
We are happy to sing, 
for Him…

We are humble 
that are...

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Things of Need

When I open up my cupboard, 
I find it full of items, 
lost…and then found. 

This piece of glass, that item made of...

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Forgotten Soldier

Service to my family, 
those I love with my whole heart. 
Service to my country, 
the nation that I hold dear.
Service to my God,...

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I may always be or at least try to be as  much of a rebel as possible because it just may be that not...

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I'm the son of a gun.

You can call me the son of Sam.

I kill, Bang, bang, you're dead..

I kill. therefore I am.



I remember  my...

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A BUM LIFE
my life has always been
filled with misfortune twists and turns
always walking down the wrong road
with trouble at my side seeking the easy way...

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Sing Me a Song

Oh, sing me a song of cows and campfires
And dream back to those days that are long past;
Of empty bunkhouse and tall...

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She said it was come to Jesus 
time
But it wasn't held in a church
Familiar as I am with the 
scriptures
Who knew that Jesus cursed. 

She started...

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