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Lost Cowboy Poems

These Lost Cowboy poems are examples of Cowboy poems about Lost. These are the best examples of Cowboy Lost 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



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,

Premium Member How the West Was Lost
The Great Continental Divide, more appropriately
known to most Easterners as the Continental Divide 
of the Americas, but nope, not out here in the Western 
country...

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Categories: cowboy, allusion, analogy, bullying, character,

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

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



Ghost and Tex - Part 2
But 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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Categories: cowboy, poetry,

Forgive This Old Cowboy
I’ve run long and hard down this trail we call life
it’s been filled with heartache and been filled with strife
I've taken some things with my...

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Categories: cowboy, poems, poetry,

Porches
I have known many porches throughout the years,
some adorned in laughter and some wrought with tears.
Porches where warm breezes floated o'er the plains,
and the sunlight...

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Categories: cowboy, poems, poetry,

The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part Vii
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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Categories: cowboy, history, lost, love, myth,

The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part Vi
VI.
Reg looked from the dinner table,
heard the door take a hard pounding.
Jolene frowned, said, “He sounds sober…
He’s much worse when he doesn’t drink.”

But Reg knew...

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Categories: cowboy, history, lost, love, myth,

The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part V
V.
Reg did nothing but embrace her,
it seemed like the right thing to do,
she said, “Let’s just go back to bed,
it’s much nicer lying with you.”

The...

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Categories: cowboy, history, lost, love, myth,

The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part Iv
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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Categories: cowboy, history, lost, love, myth,

The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part Iii
III.
“Excuse me m’am,”he did call out,
“It looks like you could use some help.”
The woman looked up cautiously,
if she feared him, he could not tell.

“And what...

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Categories: cowboy, history, lost, love, myth,

The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part Ii
II.
Now Reg was good at pressing flesh,
always had a gift for the gab,
in twenty minutes the locals
treated him like the best friend they had.

He bought...

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Categories: cowboy, history, lost, love, myth,

The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part I
I.
He was riding south from Boise,
having split from the other men,
they’d got together for this job,
would not see each other again.

It was much safer doing...

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Categories: cowboy, history, lost, love, myth,


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