CYPRESS LAKES
...THE BEAUTY OF CYPRESS LAKES CAPTURED MY WONDERING SENSES THE MANY CYPRESS TREES SURROUNDING MY HOME WRAPPED AROUND A SOFT GOLF COURSE GREAT VEIWS OVER SEVERAL LAKES THAT HOUSE THE MOST INTERESTING NE...
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Categories:
ranches, allah,
Form: Naat
Times Change
...Dusty little towns
West of the Great Divide
Where great-grandchildren of cowboys
On ranches still reside.
Small western museums
With local antiquities inside;
Native American artifacts,
So...
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Categories:
ranches, america, fashion, western,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Fool's Gold Fortune, Part II
......For two weeks Lester worked that pyrite vein,
and every day a brand new dollar came,
at the end he hug dug out two cart’s worth,
said Higgs, “Now that’s enough work in the earth.”
He smiled ...
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Categories:
ranches, character, crazy, fun, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
septemberfalls v3
...septemberfalls v3
September FallS
End of sunshinE
Perhaps look uP
To try seeing iT
Every bare treE
May seem gri...
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Categories:
ranches, september,
Form: Acrostic
Without a Horse
...A man without a car is a poor fellow,
It’s like a cowboy without a horse, a lonely soul,
He doesn’t know what to do or who to visit in the ranches,
He walks alone in Los Angeles or Dallas,
He c...
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Categories:
ranches, appreciation, car, horse,
Form: Free verse
Delineation of Beauty
...DELINEATION OF BEAUTY
Mary, you might not be the mother of Jesus
but you murder other beauty cos you're gorgeous.
Just like Annabella, your hair resonates
with the book character & beautifies ...
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Categories:
ranches, 1st grade, beauty, for
Form: Rhyme
The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part V
...V.
Reg did nothing but embrace her,
it seemed like the right thing to do,
she said, “Let’s just go back to bed,
it’s much nicer lying with you.”
The next day, while he was dressing
ro hit the...
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Categories:
ranches, history, lost, love, myth,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Tragedy of Reginald King, Part Ii
...II.
Now Reg was good at pressing flesh,
always had a gift for the gab,
in twenty minutes the locals
treated him like the best friend they had.
He bought some drinks, but not too much,
did not...
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Categories:
ranches, history, lost, love, myth,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
My Hometown
...Small, cut in half by Route Sixty-Six,
with farms and ranches scattered around.
Theaters, cafes, motels, your picks
Saturdays, everyone came to town.
What fun walking down crowded Main Street.
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Categories:
ranches, change, growing up, home,
Form: Rhyme
The Life of Wind
...The breeze it carries many things whispered willow winds
Pollinated particles of dust where new life can begin
A breeze of leaves departing from life on dead branches
The fresh smell of all the ni...
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Categories:
ranches, environment, flower, happiness, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Our Peoples' Values, Part Ii
......Todd was surprised by his stern eyes,
he seemed serious about it.
Todd said, “There’s a town two days on,
my horse can take double a bit.
“But I don’t know about this ‘debt,’
I just did wha...
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Categories:
ranches, culture, friendship, history, hope,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
I Can Never, Never Hate You
...The verb "hate" can never be
My darling, in my vocabulary
I can only love you night and day
I can only think of you all day long
I can only dream of you and long
For your presence at midday
Whe...
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Categories:
ranches, cute love, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Statues of Horses
...Outside drives of dude ranches or of hobby farms
Cast statues of horses bred from Cortez' runaways.
They stand in basket planted ferns to camouflage their hooves,
Or rear atop a barn as though to ...
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Categories:
ranches, america, discrimination, history,
Form: Free verse
Village Pond
...Ponds paint greenish portraits in rural Indian landscape,
Docile duck rafts do dive-tricks, teasing whale-like buffaloes,
Salmon and tilapia tickle skaters and shrunk snails,
Tadpoles and fries fr...
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Categories:
ranches, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Javan Rhinos
...Trophy Hunters eradicated lesser one-horned.
Traditional medicine was reasoned then killed.
The colonial era malignant apartheid seized.
Tragic wildlife ranches endangered.
Tremendous Javan Rhino...
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Categories:
ranches, environment,
Form: Pleiades
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