Song 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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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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*** SINGING MEMORIES ***

“Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Hard times, come again no more.” **

A memory came flying through to me this...

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all of them lied to him
creating a world that made him
ideal to be victim to whatever
they wished of him
the woman they allowed him to
believe loved...

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ENJOYING THE EMBARRASSMENT OF  RICHES
THEY SOUGHT TO SEEM ASHAMED
THEY COLLABORATED TO GAIN A 
GREATER UNDERSTANDING
TO EXPLAIN THEIR  WHAT THEY THOUGHT NEEDED
EXPLANATION
THEN WHICH IS...

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Thunder clouds roll back, rain does succomb
shepheards emerge their flock
sunrays, brightens the horizon
mountain range, as far as the eye can see

The far distance , a...

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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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Gently moves the melody of the range,
Lost in an ambrotype that does not change. 
Each twist of the trail still brings us all here
Never to...

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