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Hope
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Charles Gragg
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ranch, hope,
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Party Time
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Josephine Brennand
| Senryu |
ranch, write, writing,
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for mi wifey
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Allan Terry
| Ballad |
ranch, cheer up, creation, desire,
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Silent But Deadly
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Light Verse |
ranch, fun, humorous, satire, word
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Fading Away the Mark of Misery
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J.W. Earnings
| Free verse |
ranch, angst, emotions, endurance, hope,
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The Golden Curl
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Larry Bradfield
| Rhyme |
ranch, life,
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The Bus Ride
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Marc Acrich
| Prose |
ranch, poetry,
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Round UP
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roger turner
| Rhyme |
ranch, america,
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The Cowboy
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roger turner
| Epic |
ranch, america,
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The Un cowboy like cowboy
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roger turner
| Light Verse |
ranch, america,
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Western Justice
by roger turner
Western Justice
It was known just as "The Tree"
It was on the fence line of Jade Ranch
And on the wizened, hardened oak
Was a limb, known as...
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Rhyme |
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ranch, america,
When Poets Shop
by Peggy Brightman
When Poets Shop
Finding a robin on the freeway
is not more startling than encountering
a poet in the condiments aisle
at the market. When worlds collide!
His tall...
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ranch, poets,
Help The Helpless and The Hapless
by john sensele
Too many questions life asks me
To which I offer no accurate answers
Not that as a busy bee
I can’t assemble diva dancers
To satisfy life’s curiosity
Meant...
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ranch, poems,
Elation Vibrations
by CayCay Jennings
In my eighteenth Spring, strangers used brotherhood as ribbons to gift me a feel and a truth that have staid my life long. At...
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Haibun |
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ranch, celebration, dance, emotions, faith,
haibun
by Jeanne Hicks
It's going to be another hot Amarillo day, but as I emerge from my car, the morning is still only warm with a gentle breeze...
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Haibun |
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Categories:
ranch, art, garden,
The Patina of an Old Cowboy
by John Gondolf
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...
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Rhyme |
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ranch, old, retirement,
An Open Letter to my Former Employer
by Michelle Faulkner
So, XYZ Company, after my five years of servitude and loyalty
you close the doors, you dissolve the department
with less than a day's notice, because, hey,...
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ranch, business, career, corruption, farewell,
Honoring You in Living Color
by Rhoda Tripp
Kitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
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Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
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Yellow...
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ranch, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Wild Flowers
by KDawn Friel
The Rancher and His Wife's first Spring sprouted an abundance of wild flowers that expressed the truly hidden beauty of their property with their multitude...
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Narrative |
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ranch, beautiful, nature,
Cowboy Time-Loop, Part I
by David Welch
Linton Bosick rode, on the look-out for strays,
in the year eighteen hundred ninety-eight,
he had a job in fair Santa Monica
working the ranch of Big Eldon...
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Cowboy |
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ranch, adventure, confusion, history, people,
Three Fine, Well-Tended Graves, Part II
by David Welch
...It was early fall when the trouble came
to the Sperry’s and the Circle-S Ranch,
a dozen bandits came riding in hard,
shooting their guns in an entrance...
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Cowboy |
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ranch, courage, family, growth, hero,
Three Fine, Well-Tended Graves, Part I
by David Welch
Rudolph Sperry was a ranch-owner’s son,
and rode hard for his Circle-S brand,
helping punchers herd cattle 'cross the plains,
in Nebraska’s western Sand Hill lands,
he wasn’t that...
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Cowboy |
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ranch, courage, family, growth, hero,
Now
by J.W. Earnings
It's like I've been left on my own
Like a summer icecream without its cone
Oh, I melt...you're -
You're heartfelt...held -
Held me tight...yeah -
Yeah, all night...wow
You're the...
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ranch, beauty, change, deep, desire,
The Price of a Normal Life, Part IV
by David Welch
Hopkins just fumed, and dove for his iron,
Bud’s gun barked, and he fired right then,
The Pinkerton’s charged at the gunshot,
And stared down on the lifeless...
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Cowboy |
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ranch, adventure, conflict, family, growth,
The Price of a Normal Life, Part II
by David Welch
Hours later Bud rode a spent, tired horse,
covered in grit and grime from the chase,
as he went he came upon a well-built ranch,
painted white, a...
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Cowboy |
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ranch, adventure, conflict, family, growth,
Apple Worm Salad
by James Edward Lee Sr.
I had an apple
It had a worm in it
So I diced it up evenly
Added croutons and place him in a salad
Ahh! nothing like a little...
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Free verse |
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ranch, crazy, desire, engagement, humorous,
Farmer Cowboy
by James Edward Lee Sr.
Farmer Cowboy
What's the different tween a farmer and a rancher
When there a horse involved in the matter
rope em, bridle saddle up ride em
giddy yup
Must brush...
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Cowboy |
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Categories:
ranch, analogy, appreciation, character, symbolism,
I'll Settle Down Some Day, Part I
by David Welch
Grant Murchison was a ranch-raised young man,
Arizona territory was his land,
Six-foot tall, and blonde around the head,
Raised by good parents, even well read,
The whole dang...
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Cowboy |
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Categories:
ranch, addiction, celebration, death, loss,
Walter B Canfield 1872-1914
by stark hunter
Walter B. Canfield
1872-1914
It is in my best interest indeed,
Now that my name is about to be called,
To come forth to the White Throne,
To make confession,...
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Epitaph |
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ranch, desire, girlfriend,
A Man Is Born, Part III
by David Welch
“...But you are my wife, and I made a vow,
even though I was a half-drunk young lout,
you belong by my side, and I by yours,
the...
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Cowboy |
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Categories:
ranch, change, character, growth, hope,