Jolly Rancher by James Edward Lee Sr.
Sugar-sugar-sweet
dyes-food coloring-sweet-sweet
hard pellet sweet drops
12/04/17
Rancher to Spacer
Lorne Greene
Played on a rancher team.
Later had Cylons on his track
In a show where they would say frack.
There is a gingerbread man,
a farmer named Ginggy,
who lives in Candyland
on Jolly Rancher Pass.
He loves his candy farm-
He has Hershey cows,
M&M grass,
chocolate chip seeds,
and his house is made of graham crackers.
He has a Laffy Taffy dog
and a lovely gingerbread wife
and two lovely gingerbread children.
His wife's name is Ginger,
his daughter's name is Jingle,
and his son's name is Ding.
They all love their farm very much.
Aunika Alch, age 11
&
Keyanna Bottoms, age 10
morning frost twinkles
while rancher sips coffee and
whiffs new arrivals
Elk Walk
elk walk in snow to
find a morsel in warm fount
beyond, fields beacons
The Rancher
morning frost twinkles
while rancher sips coffee and
whiffs new arrivals
5/9/2014
January Haiku Contest
I have a name for my husband. One that can be repeated. I call him cowboy. But
he tells me I am wrong. He never redeoed, nor a Saturday night cowboy was he.
And he was way to young for the cattle drives of history. Born on his father’s
homestead in Nebraska sandhill land. He started working full time on a ranch as
a lad of fourteen. All of the work they did back then was done with horses and
teams. True cars were around in ‘45, but tractors were hard to be found. So for 8
years he proudly worked on the famous 101 Nebraska ranch. In l9 hundred and
57 I started teaching up there. When my teaching job was done the cowboy and
the teacher became as one. I moved up the beautiful valley to the ranch where he
did work and don’t laugh I then became the cook. And while we worked we kept
our eyes and ears open for a ranch of our own. At last we were blessed with the
ranch of our dreams on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota Land.
OK, maybe he is right. Maybe a cowboy he's not. He is a mechanic, a
pediatrician, an obstetrician, a veterinary, a plumber (wells), a house keeper
(stalls), a blacksmith, a dietician, a truck driver, a farmer (crops), a carpenter
(corrals and maternity wards), a construction worker, a landscaper (fencing), a
teacher, a road grader (keeps roads oven year round), a hunter (hunts stray
critters), a trapper (beavers to keep our water ways open and skunks to keep our
sinuses working), a cowboy (cattle work), a welder, a rancher, a ranch hand, a
cowhand and a_______ I give, I give. He is a Jack of all Trades, but since his
name is Billy I can’t go around calling him Jack, so he will always be my cowboy
to me. P. S. he is definitely not a modern cowboy. No three wheelers, no
pickups, no motorcycles. He did his cattle work by horseback.
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