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Dogies Poems - Poems about Dogies

Premium Member Under the Stars
... He sings a lullaby under the stars; dreamland awaits them in grim abattoirs. Git along, little dogies; cowboy’s warding off bogies, crossing the plains to those last cattle cars. ———......

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Categories: dogies, song, western,
Form: Limerick
Lonesome Cowboy
...I heard tell some folks think cowboys built the West. The only thing I know for sure is I always did my best to give a man a good days work for an honest wage ridin' among tumbleweeds and dried br......

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Categories: dogies, horse, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Mule Named Jack
...Now its purty well knowed that cowpokes prefer to ride a horse, An' movin' pitchers show 'em astride prancin' horses of course. But Hank, a cow-puncher fer many years ain't like th' usual pack; He......

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Categories: dogies, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cowboy Slim's Five-Dollar Hat
...Slim's cowboy hat warn't no fancy Stetson, that's fer shore! He'd paid five smackeroos fer it in a Sears 'n' Roebuck store. But it served him jes as well through his cowboyin' years, Roundin' up, ......

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Categories: dogies, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Patina of An Old Cowboy
...His skin like the patina of worn out leather, burnt and cracked from many hours in the sun. Across the wide plains in the hot Texas weather, he rode tall in the saddle to get the job done. Nort......

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Categories: dogies, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Campfire Tales
...When all the wranglin' chores was done and the sun settled in the west, The cowboys was lollin' about the campfire savorin' much needed rest. From early dawn they'd branded dogies and herded cantan......

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Categories: dogies, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cowboy Howdy the Clown Goes Home
...Cowboy Howdy the Clown still goes To town with ten little shoes on his toes Purple hair and a square blue nose Ten grey flowers for Cimarron Rose An itty bitty teeny weeny cowboy hat Vaquero ch......

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Categories: dogies, animal, home, humorous, nursery
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Cowboy Hank's Scruffy Boots
...Hank lounged on the bunkhouse porch tossin' back some beers, Watchin' the sunset and reminiscin' about his cowboyin' years. He peered at the sun 'twixt the pointy toes of his shabby boots Pr......

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Categories: dogies, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'M A-Hangin' Up My Spurs
...Hank had cowboyed and rodeoed fer nigh on forty years, Ridin' in sleet, rain and snow a-herdin' cantankerous steers. His hide was tough as leather and his legs was slightly bowed, But brandin' dog......

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Categories: dogies, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Yodelin' Cowboy
...Hank was a hard workin' cowpoke who really earned his meager pay. He rode his ass Old Red from early dawn 'til at night he hit the hay, Fixin' fences, ropin' steers and brandin' dogies in the old c......

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Categories: dogies, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Real Cowboys Don'T Sing Honky-Tonk Songs
...When cowboys sprawl 'round the camp fire after the days work is done, They strum guitars and tootle harmonicas and sing to have fun. Real cowboys don't sing Honky-Tonk or She Done Me Wrong stuff. ......

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Categories: dogies, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cowboy
...He crawled from his bunk stiflin' a hearty yawn. His work began each day at the very crack of dawn. He donned his jeans, chaps and old slouch hat, Pulled on his cowboy boots and strapped on his gat! ......

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Categories: dogies,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Cowpuncher Jawbones With His Horse
...I reckon to us city dudes an' ordinary blokes it seems somewhat strange, But a cowpoke an' his horse become pards when ridin' the lonely range! Pausin' fer a roll-yer-own under a ponderosa after a ......

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Categories: dogies, cowboy-western, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboy
...ah the rockin rolling seat , dem bowlaigs sure hard to beat, when ya poking them ol dogies , heading home and life is sweet, when the cattle are a grazing , and the sun is setting low, an ......

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Categories: dogies, adventure, life, life, boy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Bury Me In My Jeans
..."I've rode the range now fer nigh on sixty years, Brandin' dogies and ropin' them wily Hereford steers. When I come to the end of the trail, I don't want no big scenes. Boys, jes' wrap me in my ho......

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Categories: dogies, me, old,
Form: Rhyme

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