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Horse Cowboy Poems

These Horse Cowboy poems are examples of Cowboy poems about Horse. These are the best examples of Cowboy Horse poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Ridin' Through the Fog
The fog sits heavy on broken ground,
Snow lays light where the stubble’s browned.
No sun, just hush and hoofbeat slow,
And breath that drifts like chimney smoke.

The...

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Categories: cowboy, animal, birth, snow, western,



Premium Member Times Change
Dusty little towns
West of the Great Divide
Where great-grandchildren of cowboys
On ranches still reside.

Small western museums
With local antiquities inside; 
Native American artifacts, 
Some horse tack for...

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Categories: cowboy, america, fashion, western,

Premium Member To Be Known is To Be Loved
The wind knows the rider before the horse does. Long before sunup, boots scuff barnwood and the rawhide creaks with memory. A buckaroo doesn’t announce...

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Categories: cowboy, appreciation, love, poetry, western,

The Horse Named Maybe
I bought me a horse from a feller named Clyde,
said, "She’s gentle and sweet, just a joy for to ride."
Well, "Maybe" she was, and maybe...

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Categories: cowboy, funny, horse, humorous, parody,

Premium Member Cowboy Footles
Great lore
of yore

Big lands’
ranch hands

No work
to shirk

Tending;
mending

Bale hay -
okay!

Cows raised
Grass grazed

Horse spurred
helps herd

Strong fence
makes sense

Bull ride
gets tried

For kicks -
rope tricks!...

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Categories: cowboy, western,



Jesse
dear tall child,

your bones probably don't fit your frame yet;
   they shift awkwardly,
and your spine hunches and slopes.

your hands are likely to be...

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Categories: cowboy, child abuse, childhood, gender,

Premium Member P-C Numbers Thirty-nine AND FORTY

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Categories: cowboy, analogy,

Premium Member Ten Gallon Hat
I come from the borough of Queens, New York
My classmates call me a Klutz and a dork
Those names pervaded my soul, taking a toll
Being at...

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Categories: cowboy, environment, girlfriend, humor, pride,

Premium Member The Knight, My Stardust Cowboy
Up there rides my star-spangled, blue-eyed knight
As he unleashes the Golden-Heart Star
Bright green orbs merely want to ask him why
His Milky Way Horse Trail flows...

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Categories: cowboy, adventure, allegory, fantasy, feelings,

I Don't Know What to Say to Katie Clemens
I 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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© Steve Body  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cowboy, death, death of a

Premium Member Speak Your Mind, But Ride A Fast Horse
That be cold sun rose yonder, our heads be hot, I'd declare,
I'll get Whitey my critter, worked all night, best she nicker.
'Bout saddlin' her real...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cowboy, analogy, animal, appreciation, best

A Modern Cowboy
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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Categories: cowboy, america, angst, confusion, desire,

Sodbuster, Part I
A sheriff I was in a small town,
seen fifty years, and earned no renown,
when Black Ken and his gang did come down
to Mick Callahan’s big...

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Categories: cowboy, character, conflict, evil, history,

Premium Member Runaways
When your heartbeats drum their message of love.
My heart soars like the birds flying above.
As flashing thunder streaks across dark skies,
I will come swiftly, believe...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cowboy, adventure, destiny, faith, feelings,

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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Categories: cowboy, abuse, angel, children, dark,


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