The Saddle WaitsThe sunrise paints the prairie gold,
The breeze still hums that tune of old,
Where once I’d ride with reins held tight,
Now I rock through the hush of night.
My boots sit still by the old back door,
Dusty dreams from days before.
The saddle waits on its wooden stand—
But now I hold life in my hands.
No roundup calls, no...
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Categories:
baby, beauty, change, child,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Categories:
beautiful, best friend, blessing,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Categories:
extended metaphor, humor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Categories:
french, kiss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Categories:
angst, conflict,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Categories:
appreciation, hyperbole,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Carnival of Hatred“Come one, come all!”
The hawker summons
Try your luck
On the unmoored Ferris wheel
Hurl a dart
At the Kewpie dolls
Win one for the lady
To consummate the deal
(Chorus)
Intruders in the festival
Outsiders at the gates
Nothing like a carnival
To bring up dormant hates
Where the pavement meets the grass
Behind the stand of funnel cakes,
Someone's getting hornery
Their pants down at their feet
This balloon-tank...
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Categories:
allegory, america, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Soft Goodbye of a Mountain BearHe woke to the hush of a mountain thaw,
Where snow gave way to pine and claw,
The breath of spring in the alpine air,
Stirred the long slumber of the highland bear.
His coat still thick with the sleep of frost,
Not knowing yet what he'd gained or lost,...
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Categories:
america, animal, cry,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Josh Moore MontanaCheap ale pools in a Styrofoam cup.
She’s barefoot in gravel,
anklet flashing beneath the floodlamps.
Pickup window ajar, radio blaring
“Friends in Low Places.”
Her jeans slung low,
hips marbled violet on the porch-swing,
ash winnowing across her thighs
from last night’s guttering fire.
I watch the buttes flatten at gloaming,
a silo blinking red—
a wound stitched into the earth.
She speaks of leaving at...
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Categories:
adventure, africa, gothic,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
i'll still punch uh brutha out
Categories:
allusion, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Josh Moore North Dakota IITV news broadcasts the motel dark,
she lies flat, belly soft with rabbit tattoos,
ash smudged into the sheets.
My boots drip clay and pesticide,
fingers stained from counting nickels.
Outside, a pumpjack bows to the ground,
over and over,
like it’s praying.
She whispers something about escape.
I kiss the scar beneath her jaw,
taste motel soap and Marlboro light.
The window rattles
an oil train...
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Categories:
addiction, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
gag'er.
al'lup in'er
muzzle
mine trusty
oil'd rag tuh
slip'in
i guess ya can
say
gag'er
thuh Kool...
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Categories:
allusion,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Categories:
extended metaphor, paradise,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Minnesota IIIMoist sheets tossed aside
soaked pillows
Side by side single mattress
She was exposed drippings
Dime sack and tree rings brittle snowcats
Green sight meet brown peepers
Plumb late April Boreal Plains humidity
Abittor Unami eau de cologne electricity
Thin plain pink blanket on the window
Air conditioner recirculating
Salmon rays preen her face
Noon spring afternoon
the rain stopped the sun...
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Categories:
allusion, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Ridin' Through the FogThe fog sits heavy on broken ground,
Snow lays light where the stubble’s browned.
No sun, just hush and hoofbeat slow,
And breath that drifts like chimney smoke.
The cows stand scattered, heads hung low,
Dark shapes caught in a pale gray glow.
I ride out quiet, don’t make a sound...
They know this hat, this horse, this ground.
A calf’s come early,...
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Categories:
animal, birth, snow, western,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Specific Types of Cowboy Poetry Poems
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birthday, black, cattle, christmas, christian, cowgirl, death, horse, humorous, father, festival, funeral, funny, god, kindergarten life, little, love, memorial, montana, old, ranch, texas, wedding
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