Death Cowboy Poems
These Death Cowboy poems are examples of Cowboy poems about Death. These are the best examples of Cowboy Death poems written by international poets.
CowpokeCowpoke
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16
Sleep, old man...
your day has long since passed.
The endless plains,
cool midnight rains
and changeless ragged cows
alone remain
of what once was.
You...
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cowboy, evil, heart, home, poems,
I Don't Know What to Say to Katie ClemensI Don’t Know What To Say To Katie Clemens
By Steve Body
Copyright 2009
I don’t know what to say to Katie Clemens.
All the words are jumbled in...
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cowboy, death, death of a
I Should've Been A CowboyToby was special
beyond any words
His love monumental
for country and Lord
He fought to the end
accepting his fate
A legacy giant
— our hearts to embrace
(Tony Keith’s Death: February...
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cowboy, america, hero, music,
Billy the Kid's Sister"Born William Henry McCarty, Jr. AKA, Billy the Kid or El Chivito, (Billy Goat/Kid). He had a younger brother named Joseph, and they both had...
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cowboy, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother,
He Died With A Smile, Part V...He fell to the snow, choking his last breath,
Dalton watched despite his own fading strength,
Barnes dismounted and walked over to him,
said, “I see that you...
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cowboy, abuse, angel, children, dark,
He Died With A Smile, Part IVHe saw a girl wearing only one shoe,
and drew the other one from his pocket,
tied it on her foot, and said to the girl,
“You have...
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cowboy, abuse, anger, children, dark,
He Died With A Smile, Part IIIHe followed this path for half a mile,
found himself high up on a cold platform.
The trail split, one went across the mesa,
the other went right,...
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cowboy, abuse, anger, children, dark,
He Died With A Smile, Part IIThe man shook and said, “They wanted some fun,
but the boy was small, he started to bleed.
Patrick threw him out back, said, ‘This one’s shot,
but...
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cowboy, abuse, angel, children, dark,
He Died With A Smile, Part IDalton lived in the north Texas plain,
working a ranch he owned for five years,
a small spread, but it brought some money in,
some solace after all...
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cowboy, abuse, anger, children, dark,
Death of the Old Cowboy On the Lonesome RangeDeath Of The Old Cowboy On The Lonesome Range
Ravenous wolf pack, ripping and tearing
red-stain bloody meat from his dead horse flank
much better the dead horse...
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cowboy, death, deep, feelings, imagination,
Ghost and Tex - Part 2But the sun beating down was taking its toll
Red started to fade though he'd given his soul
they reached the exchange both were ragged and sore
Tex...
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cowboy, poetry,
Ballad of Ghost and Tex - Part IThere’s many a tale that spreads across the night
when the sun o’er the plains yields to campfire light.
Tales about cowboys, who once roamed the...
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cowboy, poetry,
Kyia's SongMany messages from Heaven
are hard for me to understand
How one moment I held you close
the next you slipped out of my hands
Forgive me if I...
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cowboy, poetry,
Living the Cowboy WaysIt was pretty late in September
and I was over the Billings way
I was riding fence for Freddie White
on the west end of the Rockin Bar...
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cowboy, poems, poetry,
Among the Stars and MoonYou told me so many stories
tales of how someday very soon
Your God would lift our mortal veil
and we would join the stars and moon
I paid...
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cowboy, death, moon, poetry,