A Heart to Hearth
...KEY: H: Heart h: hearth
h: I can see footsteps coming close to me a mile away but if they stand in front of me, the noise will be blinding.
h: I stand flat-footed on my be...
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Categories:
right smart, heart, humorous,
Form: Narrative
The Discovery of the Bagel
...Whoever came up with the bagel
was a right-smart clever fellow
His brainstorm surely ranks up there
with taste treats like pudding and jello
For I'd never put toppings on pudding
like lo...
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Categories:
right smart, creation, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme
I'M Coming Back To You Sooling
...I'm coming back to you, Sooling. I'm on my way.
Hear the sheets flapping in the gallants and royals.
The spray is wet upon my cheeks and in my beard.
Soon we anchor at Lahaina in the Sandwich Isla...
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Categories:
right smart, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
Ah, Shucks
...A Cowboy is lean, tall, muscled and an inarticulate mass
Of loyalty, independence, pride and downright Western class
He cocks his hat to the back of his head and lets loose an infectious grin
Test...
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Categories:
right smart, humor, , western,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Harry's Barbershop
...A cluttered barbershop in my old hometown I fondly call to mind,
Was a gathering place to loaf and socialize, a great place to unwind!
Harry, the barber, kept farmers, the local rabble and boys lik...
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Categories:
right smart, funny, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
On Badmouthin By Ike: Ike and Jane Series
...Well lemme tell ya a thing er two bout people,
Ben round plenny of em and ah got sumpin figerred,
Don’t make no diffrence if’n they is under a steeple,
If’n they small, medium, smart, dumb, big er...
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Categories:
right smart, people, body,
Form: Sonnet
Mount Pisgah
...At the foot uv Pikes Peak sprawls the old minin' town uv Cripple Creek.
They wuz nigh on fifty-thousand folks thar when minin' wuz at its peak!
Ol' Bob Womack, a cowpoke, struck gold in Poverty Gul...
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Categories:
right smart, funny, historywinter, lonely, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Bummer
...BUMMER
The last sad day of June my true love said goodby
She packed a bulging overnight
and baked an apple pie
We had a hearty dinner then
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Categories:
right smart, life
Form: Free verse
The Diary of Lord Kellington (16)
...I had gone looking for trouble.
I found it.
I had awoke in a sour mood. Very unlike myself at all. I am usually, always in good
cheer.
Almost, always.
I was spoiling for a fight.
The need ra...
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Categories:
right smart, funnytime,
Form: Narrative
Ridin' Out the Storm
...The cowpokes is settled 'round the pot bellied stove all snug and warm,
A-bracin' fer snow and gales frum the advancin' winter storm.
Some enjoy Bull Durham roll-yer-owns, others terbaccy chaws.
T...
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Categories:
right smart, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
Cowboy Stew
...The ingrededents in cowboy stew, is what he is about
It needs to simmer a right smart, much like his philosophy
In a black cast iron skillet over a campfire
With time it will taste pretty good th...
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Categories:
right smart, cowboy-western
Form: I do not know?