Ranch Cowboy Poems

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            oh yeah
      i'm get'n pickled 
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Enveloping cliche’s
Without a building in the night
The locust bind
Inside your socks
Chasing you back
You not old, your hapless
And there in the grave
You hold on time
Running away...

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Great lore
of yore

Big lands’
ranch hands

No work
to shirk

Tending;
mending

Bale hay -
okay!

Cows raised
Grass grazed

Horse spurred
helps herd

Strong fence
makes sense

Bull ride
gets tried

For kicks -
rope tricks!...

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               yeah she do
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...A warrior shrieked, pitched sideways,
bled when he hit the ground,
the Apache spurred their horses,
looking to flank around.
But John expected such a thig,
he looked right and...

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He wears thick gloves when he strings the barbed wire,
fashioning a thorny fence from prickly metal spines,
reminding me that cattle like to know the boundaries,
the...

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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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Monroe was always up before dawn got too deep
cookin' coffee and bacon while we're still asleep
When five o'clock rolled around he'd ring that damn bell
Many...

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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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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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Henry started a punchin’ 
at the ripe old age of 15
There just ain’t no way of knowin’
all of the things he’s done and seen

All those...

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‘Twas way back in them days 
when the ranch owner’s ways
was just about the only law there was around

Rancher’s money was king
and gun violence reigned
till...

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I was out riding the fences one day
and spied these here suits and their fancy car
They said they was from some oil company
and started cutting...

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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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