Family Cowboy Poems

"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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You’re torn between two identities
never knowing which way you should go
You dream of being a big city
but you're afraid to let yourself grow

There’s some folks...

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Daddy, is that guy a real cowboy?
The father sent his son over to ask the man.
This cowboy was delighted to regale the child with stories.
Campfire...

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VII.
It was one year, minus a day,
when Reg ventured back to her home,
he’d gotten work running cattle,
all over Nevada did roam.

But the whole time he...

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IV.
An awkward silence fell on them,
Reg felt bad, and looked at his feet,
“I didn’t mean to pry,”he said.
she laughed and said, “Don’t look so meek.

“There’s...

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An old cowpoke from Cheyenne, Wyoming
Got a hankering and set out a roaming.
He got as far as Montana,
Choked on a banana,
And returned in a box...

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...Todd was surprised by his stern eyes,
he seemed serious about it.
Todd said, “There’s a town two days on,
my horse can take double a bit.

“But I...

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Dear Father, mine. 

I ran away from bad. 
I took my children with me.
I found a place to run to. 
It was an empty castle...

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Drifter

Coming in from nowhere, 
staying only a moment, 
and then moving on. 
Friend, or foe?
Hard to know. 
What to call you...
by name? 

Without family, 
left...

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...Connolly, amazed, shook his heavy head,
kids do not lie well, the truth had been said,
having heard the tale, he just could not blame
a child with...

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COWBOY 098

He is an attractive young Dad. 
He opted to be called a Cowboy. 
Everyone in his neighborhood called him by his pseudo name. 

He...

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~ You’re the Mender of My Fences… 
Time has a way of rusting out the wires
or rotting the posts off below the ground
and then the...

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Colorado Cowboy Saga

Grandad became a cowboy,
 Though born in the mountains of Tennessee,
His family moved to Colorado –
 Just when he turned three;
Fleeing from the...

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Out west there are many new ways.                  ...

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IV.
The tears on his brother’s face were heartbreaking,
and many watching wished it all would stop,
but Paul simply walked over towards the noose,
the whole crowd gasped...

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