koi fish swimming prowess
...Her koi fish appear as cowhide
red and white instead of black and white
They swim around lily pads that have shaken off their frogs
I marvel at their swimming prowess
And the pink blossom of the ...
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Categories:
cowhide, fish,
Form: Free verse
Yeah:Yeah!
...I became pregnant the summer of 2024
I had my eightth son, born
Valentines Day 2025 in Correzz
France. I became pregant one night at
a Music semenarier.
Ten of us partied at the Twig Retreat
i...
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Categories:
cowhide, adventure, beach, celebration, culture,
Form: Ballad
Time
...3/4/25
"Time"
People often rat pack
Quick to have the last laugh
It's a sad fact
That we never could get past that
Time is something we can never have back
Few heed the forecast
Torches p...
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Categories:
cowhide, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
A Most Unusual Evangelical One-Man Band
...An old preacher named Ned
Got it into his head
To make a musical pilgrimage
Before he was dead.
He claimed divine inspiration
To form a band and tour the nation,
And by so doing treat its ills,...
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Categories:
cowhide, humor,
Form: Light Verse
An Angered Father For His Whip
...An angered father went for his whip
And son made for a man to him grip:
Ferdinand's sudden timely smart slip;
The cowhide would have slashed his hip!
Now as safe as a bird on a roof,
Father's ...
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Categories:
cowhide, age, analogy, child, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Extra Innings
...There is a story ‘bout Casey, that is but incomplete
It tells of simple ball and bat and Mighty’s ignoble feat
There we learned of failure and the storied Mudville name
Here we’ll learn what happe...
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Categories:
cowhide, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
End of Rebirth
...Allow the cool air to affect the night opossum.
Daylight, melted snow, and fragrant blossom.
There is no drastic wailing, fierce snow, or lively hail.
Allow water to settle and watch o...
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Categories:
cowhide, appreciation, spring,
Form: Sonnet
From the Sciences I Pulled Out
...From the science I finally pulled out,
After my homework unleashed a shout:
An All-Times The Strangest Graph;
To our Physics Teacher, “Perfect Chaff…”
And it made the poor gentleman weep;
Aw...
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Categories:
cowhide, career, confidence, confusion, education,
Form: Rhyme
Ride 'Um Cowboy
...Cowboy rides horse cowboy boots in stirrups
Cowboy hat waving in hand, yeehaw it’s grand,
Cowgirl is on the range! Lasso by corral
Appaloosa horse hurrah! Glad he’s a cowhand.
Dreaming of equ...
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Categories:
cowhide, america, daughter, horse, love,
Form: Rhyme
Tree Top Dancers
...Tree Top Dancers
and Circus Clowns
The neighbors moved away.
They said nothing to anyone,
they just left.
New people took the home.
There was a big truck.
It was full of boxes,
and a ...
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Categories:
cowhide, death of a friend,
Form: Narrative
Sagebrush Ranch
...SAGEBRUSH RANCH
holding his small hand,
jumping up and down,
in the silver box —
a playground with mirrors
and three buttons.
people that look like us
are all around.
when the box is full
...
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Categories:
cowhide, child,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Wisconsin Belle
...Wisconsin Belle
A pale Wisconsin winter sun does not warm,
only lends its light as a wraith too thin and wan
Greenery imposes itself on the landscape
A lush land that is bitter in winter - love...
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Categories:
cowhide, character, write,
Form: Blank verse
Ghost Town
...The clanking sound of spurs, the sun’s glare
off the shiny doppelganger derringers.
Her hat tipped onto her sweating brow.
“Contests! We don’t need no stinking contests!”
Her cowhide boots ki...
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Categories:
cowhide, humor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Battle Rap
...Let’s take this outside
Your turn to be objectified
Necktied offside and brutified
Come step outside
Where you can no longer hide
Now you and me can collide
You’re worse than godzilla’s bride...
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Categories:
cowhide, abuse, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Shoes Don'T Fit
...Been through the rocks and bottoms
AND MY SHOES DON'T FIT
Climbing Mount Nebo, marched in Medigeo
AND MY SHOES DON'T FIT
Tried to follow you Lord, but it's too hard
CAUSE MY SHOES DON'T FIT
Whe...
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Categories:
cowhide, analogy, beautiful, celebration, community,
Form: Free verse
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