People Cowboy Poems

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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...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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It's the big city bang
Your see lights as it rang
Will fall
Coming down slow walk
It's. Ticks
Lights click this no trick
Watch with people 
Standing in parking lot
NEW...

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...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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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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bells ringing
Streets corner singing
Window shopping
People  stopping 
Walking  talking smiling
On phone this goes on 
Thur out this time.
Holidays is near
It's the
BEST TIME Of YEAR
...

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...Then he could see it, the boils,
on their neck and wrists, bright and red,
he felt an itch on his own back,
and felt a cold moment...

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...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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Now I know you’ve heard the story
of how I all was way back when,
when cowboys rode with Indians
near our small town of Buzzard’s Bend.

Not long...

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Being a cowboy does not mean
you love guns or a cow patty’s scent
any more than it means that you hate
all people who work for the...

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I was at this here shindig just the other night
was all duded up and was feeling all right
When this fancy fella saunters over my way
it...

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If I could only be a summer breeze
gently stirring the leaves of aspen trees
while drifting slow across this valley floor

If I could only be a...

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You’re torn between two identities
never knowing which way you should go
You dream of being a big city
but you're afraid to let yourself grow

There’s some folks...

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When summer fires can burn
a hundred miles of trees
and winter cold can lock
you into a deep freeze

What with all them rattlers
wolves and big grizzly bear
You...

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Poetry should be easy to read
you don’t have to make it all frilly
No need to be filled with fancy words
whether you’re serious or silly

You can...

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