Life Range Poems

Cowpoke
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16

Sleep, old man...
your day has long since passed.
The endless plains,
cool midnight rains
and changeless ragged cows
alone remain
of what once was.

You...

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And Throughout Vast Purple Range, Visions Cascade Down

No fictive dream deludes for now, so her heart bleeds
And weeping spirit no comfort dares to arrive
She that...

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There’s only so many ways I can write a song
about a cowboy riding his horse cross the range
Are there any new words I can use...

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I was much involved in this thing.
You mustn’t forget that at all.
So, you stop arguing with me:
For another time your challenge…

Easy to enter fighters’ ring,
Their...

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rodents seek my gifts
searching yonder free meals
happy to oblige
all manner of life appears
what a fool relieves...

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Face of the Flatirons mountain range
Awakens
To the pre-dawn of the Colorado sun
A charcoal sketch
Scribbled to life from a meadow of pale paper

I wade waist-high in...

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Something has changed and I do not know why
Age and anger joined over taxes as the older son
With the difficulties of dealing with death’s demands
Everyday...

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You couldn't rattle Tex
  Ice water in his veins
No one ever saw him wince
  let alone complain

Kept to himself, he did
  Felt...

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Lost in the ocean 
amidst an endless sea,
Hanging around my neck 
is a locket and key,
Picture dwells inside
no big mystery,
Portrait of you, 
but it belongs...

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The long-range forecast's looking good;
I've something special planned.
My phone's a crystal ball and so
The weather's right at hand.

I wish there were an app like that
To...

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Stay within the range
And live your life
Do not settle for less
Avoid confusion and strife
You can go so far
Just put your mind to it
Open those books
Edify...

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I need to write, to center myself.
To find that guidance that fails to come
when the pressure has built,
- overwhelmed.

Breathe, feel the peace 
and steady hum...

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Cuddle
Puddle

I smile
A mile

Love sense
First tense

Kindness
Confess

Russell Sivey 

Entrant into Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen's "Valentine Footles" contest

2/7/2012...

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Often my thoughts do range far and wide.
But it’s not just my thoughts that skim the tides.
When my Hubby asks and I don’t reply…
He says...

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There is too much fear in the world these days,
Fear of the unknown, scared in soo many ways!
Phobias of spiders, mice, rats and bats,
Are you...

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