The Way West
...You’ll get where you’re going
—if you don’t go too fast
(Kit Carson: May, 1850)...
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Categories:
kit carson, western,
Form: Free verse
Rejoice At the Gift of Restored Health
...Just a poetic (souper) side note courtesy chief
wordsmith brother unaware ye experienced grief
diagnosed as walking pneumonia please bull lief
yours me, he doth care and breathes sigh of relief.
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Categories:
kit carson, angst, blessing, brother, december,
Form: Rhyme
Humus Me My Vegetated Chokes Ingest
...Humus me? My vegetated chokes ingest!
(jokes all in jest)
Hard to believe, I orange in a lee
started life as barely visible speck!
Just in the course of healthy growing
season, this former m...
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Categories:
kit carson, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio
Cowboys, Made of Awesome
...Some modern folks, when they hear his name,
will roll their eyes and look ashamed,
thinking the cowboy is uncivilized,
with his hats, and guns, and round-up rides.
That somehow they are beyond th...
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Categories:
kit carson, america, appreciation, celebration, fun,
Form: Cowboy Poetry