Happy New Year
...Out with the old, in with the new way of doing the same old thing.
Instead of snow, I clear the leaves. I don’t cleave to a resolution.
I don’t revolve around indecision. My natural giddyup takes o...
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Categories:
giddyup, new year,
Form: Free verse
Between Sleep and Giddyup
...half past five - coffee
between sleep and giddyup
eight - another cup
sleep til nine - next day
set not the alarm, morrow
jumping beans - must catch up
nah, forget extra
need to catch...
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Categories:
giddyup, drink, writing,
Form: Verse
WE LL RIDE A HORSE DOWN ROCKY PATH
...We’ll Ride a Horse Down Rocky Path
We’ll ride a horse down rocky path
Fall in love in the aftermath
Well do-si-do and do it right
Me and honey can dance all night
Roll away to a half ...
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Categories:
giddyup, dance, funny,
Form: Lyric
IT IS TIME FOR TEA
...Suspense creeps in with tea and crumpets, dear,
And murder, mayhem, chaos, stirred right in
—Poet Stirring Up Suspense
IT IS TIME FOR TEA
It is time for tea, a giddy...
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Categories:
giddyup, christmas, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Visiting Arizona
...I see your mane, in each passing cloud,
the smoky stallion’s poll to the withers,
its giddyup and gallop, at midday peak,
in this arid Tucson where cowboys trod.
On the open road, conte...
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Categories:
giddyup, america, imagery, travel,
Form: Free verse
Snow White and the Dopey Dentist
...Snow White has an ache in her jaw.
Her tooth was cracked by a crunchy apple.
The seven dwarfs had been snoring,
when the doorbell, should have been exploring.
So now, Snow White wishes ...
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Categories:
giddyup, parody,
Form: Rhyme
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:
giddyup, child,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Horseplay
...“giddyup horsie”
a stick with no legs no tail
two legs prance about
9/29/2018...
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Categories:
giddyup, imagination,
Form: Haiku
All the Pretty Horses
...I’ve found the pasture with all the pretty horses
in origami red
junk pile silver
the painted desert
wild taffy
the proud one
a soft blanket
and ...
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Categories:
giddyup, animal, art,
Form: Free verse
Giddyup
...There was an ardent cowboy named Redd
Who wed a city girl beyond his spread.
They were a good match ’twas believed
Except she was acutely aggrieved
To discover that Redd wore spurs to bed....
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Categories:
giddyup, humor, , cute,
Form: Limerick
A Cowboy Christmas
..."A Cowboy Christmas" is a children's song, sung to the tune of "Frere Jacques".
Christmas morning, Christmas morning,
'Neath the tree, 'neath the tree,
I found a hobby horse,
I found a hobby ho...
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Categories:
giddyup, children
Form: Rhyme
Anxiety Attack!
...Lone walk. Fear the night.
Soft footsteps.. black.. still, spooky.
Fast flutter... Owl hoots.
Neck hairs standing up!
Headless horseman..giddyup!
Eerie pumpkin grins...
Noises behind me...
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Categories:
giddyup, imagination
Form: Haiku
Ride Em Cowboy
...my heroes have alway's been cowboys
so giddyup go
my ghost riders in the sky
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Categories:
giddyup, adventure, cowboy-western, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Lyric