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Loss Cowboy Poems

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


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 A Bad Man
A Bad Man

The dark cowboy wears a black hat, 
to tell all those he comes across 
that he is a bad man, 
before he says...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cowboy, cancer, courage, devotion, husband,

Shotgun Law, Part I
Lefty Jacobs pushed through the doors,
he wanted a drink, nothing more,
after long days out on the trail,
a ride so hard his horse had failed.

He’d had...

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Categories: cowboy, adventure, confidence, history, strength,

Premium Member As a Cowboy
Out west there are many new ways.                  ...

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Categories: cowboy, day, food, life, love,

The Evil Twin, Part Iv
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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Categories: cowboy, brother, corruption, drink, family,



The Evil Twin, Part Iii
III.
It was the next day the sheriff rode out,
three bodies had been found in a dry gulch.
The sheriff saw Paul meet him at the door,
heard...

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Categories: cowboy, brother, corruption, drink, family,

The Evil Twin, Part Ii
II.
It was brutal chance he’d found Paul’s ranch house,
and killed the two cowboys who had stayed behind,
he and his two men took turns with Ella,
left...

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Categories: cowboy, brother, corruption, drink, family,

The Evil Twin, Part I
I.
It was in the frontier town of Simmons,
in the year eighteen hundred ninety-one,
that two twin brothers, the Malcomson twins,
bought themselves a ranch that they hoped...

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Categories: cowboy, brother, corruption, drink, family,

Riverboat Revenge, Part Ii
...The two men confirmed Fred went for his gun,
and the captain just let the whole thing be,
Lyle got up and walked out to the deck,
in...

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Categories: cowboy, boat, conflict, family, loss,

Riverboat Revenge, Part I
Lyle Cosgrove had worked the Silver Queen
for two years now, ever since he had left
family drama back in Ohio,
he had simply left his home and...

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Categories: cowboy, boat, conflict, family, loss,

Ride the Western Winds, Part Ii
...Eventually his lost child
grew up and turned eighteen,
and his ex-wife wed a doctor,
to whom she could be mean.
Bob finally had some life back,
but just about...

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Categories: cowboy, death, desire, dream, longing,

Ride the Western Winds, Part I
When Robert was a small child
he watched those brave cowboys
riding across the TV screen,
their exploits he enjoyed.
The horses, guns, and shinny stars,
the ever stylin’ hat…
It...

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Categories: cowboy, death, desire, dream, longing,

Max Martin's Death Wish, Part Iii
...He rode off into the wild,
seemed not to care for their child,
she would have to bear him alone,
for a doomed man could be no dad.
Three...

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Categories: cowboy, anger, loss, lost love,

Max Martin's Death Wish, Part Ii
...Juanita and max had a poke,
but the next day, when she awoke,
he sat on the edge of the bed,
looking vacantly into space.
Said,”This can be only...

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Categories: cowboy, anger, loss, lost love,

Max Martin's Death Wish, Part I
When Max Martin rode into town
he found Juanita, tanned and brown,
as she worked her shift tearing bar,
he walked up and ordered a drink.
She looked over...

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Categories: cowboy, anger, loss, lost love,


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