Patriotic Cowboy Poems

Momma
don't help me
grow up to love CowBoys,

The ones
who can buy you
or sell you at will,
or tell you
they don't care
whether healthy or ill,

The ones who know...

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Filial Child 

Halfway to heaven, 
so thrilled to be saved.
My life, 
changed forever.
Filled with your spirit,
wrestles to serve. 

On fire…
in the night,
running through the streets,...

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One Nation Under God

From sea to shining sea, 
manifest destiny. 
Every American third grader,
from 1960 and before, 
could recite all the most important facts, 
and...

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The Crowned Dead

The growing of green things, 
should concern all of us. 
The fires burning in far lands, 
can still reach US(a). 
There are all...

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Dangerous Visions

I see you and you see me. 
We are not free anymore. 
Or at least that is your intent. 
You place the bonds...
you brought...

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The Carcass

The best part of the meal, 
the bones, the things others throw away. 
The wingtips, the neck, the gizzard, the lizard...
a fowl needs to...

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Numbers

Life is measured. 
How much can you do?
Whimsical ideas, 
dashed to the rocks...
in favor of older methods, sure of return.

Courage beyond position, 
ambition to prove...

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What Party Are You?

Huh?
Does it matter?
Who I voted for? 
I am alive, 
so it was legal. 
I have not been dead, 
for thirty years. 
Surely...

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Historical Outlaws

What, are you talking about? 
I am saying that we have a past. 
It is full of guns, and law, 
and law breakers. 
It...

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Impeach My Peaches

I voted for Donald Trump. 
I wanted a change in life. 
I wanted to believe, 
that my country, 
still was the best in...

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Stolen Statues

The glory of yesterday, 
taken down and destroyed. 
Pummeled into dust,
by those that stole their rights, 
to be where they are. 
They promised good...

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Snow Angels 

We laid in the deep snow, 
powder white, like “new” can only be. 
It was fun for you, it was fun for me....

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Careful Words

Often our mouth(s) is(are)
two steps ahead of, 
anything we think. 
That is if we think at all.
Which remains to be seen, 
or in this...

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The Journey

I take you places, here and there, 
Some you do not want to go…to. 
It is better than being from. 
So I keep taking...

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Some People

Don’t care what happens to other people. 
They have their own agenda. 
There is nothing that can change that…
except money, a larger payoff. 

Books...

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