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Life Cowboy Poems

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


Cowpoke
Cowpoke
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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Categories: cowboy, evil, heart, home, poems,



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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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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Categories: cowboy, analogy, animal, appreciation, best

Sodbuster, Part II
...The days went by, and not that much changed,
Black Ken’s gang ruled with orders deranged,
bled people’s coin, every day the same,
and I could just stand...

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

He Died With A Smile, Part IV
He 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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Categories: cowboy, abuse, anger, children, dark,



He Died With A Smile, Part II
The 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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Categories: cowboy, abuse, angel, children, dark,

Premium Member Lying dont never help a cowboy
you haffa come jake, rodeo won’t be fun without yew.
I’m sorta gonna help with the wrangl’n.
Jake coulda gone, but he wanted to see Sally
new dance...

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Categories: cowboy, life,

Premium Member The Cowboy Poet Will Write
That part of me belongs to someone else
You knew it all along as well

We have no pretense on the past
just how long our friendship will...

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Categories: cowboy, appreciation, encouraging, friend, poetry,

Premium Member My Cowboy Poet
The spirit of the old west
a cowboy of song
He sings a pleasant tenor on the world and its wrongs

And he lifts up the spirits when...

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Categories: cowboy, fishing, friend, horse,

The Heroes of Buzzard's Bend, Part II
...But Mains just shrugged, then said, “Let’s go.”
offered the wrists to his bandittos.
Two of them led the man away,
Diaz fumed more watching him go.

Denied the...

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Categories: cowboy, corruption, god, hero, history,

Dreaming Again
From the old rockin’ chair
came the sound of his snores
that rattled the windows
and vibrated the doors

She looked o’er her glasses
but kept counting her stitch
as she...

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Categories: cowboy, poetry,

Good Night and Sweet Dreams
I always hear the sound of guitars strumming
harmonica music and cowboys humming
when I feel a warm night breeze upon my face

Whenever I look at a...

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Categories: cowboy, poetry,

Happy Trails My Friend
~ Happy Trails My Friend…
There ain’t no worn in path across life’s prairie 
to show which is the right way for us to go
If we‘ve...

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Categories: cowboy, poetry,

My Dream
I have a dream I could quit drifting around
and I could take up a wife and settle down
Together we’d buy us a small piece of...

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Categories: cowboy, poetry,

A Gambler's Circle
Whenever I’m sitting at the table
my stack of chips is dwindling kind of low
I start to thinking back towards the past 
and how life has...

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Categories: cowboy, poetry,


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