Rustlers Poems - Poems about Rustlers

Smokey Wilson

...Smokey hailed from someplace back in Missouri
was a slave until the ripe old age of ten
Left his master's home headed to Montana
and swore they would never hear from him again

Started out in th...

A Wannabe Cowboy

...Well, I’ve lived in this Montana country
guess it's been pert near fourteen years 
I call myself a cowboy though I ain't
punched no cows or branded no steers

Ain't broke me no fiery eyed wild s...

Old Glory Yet Waves

...When I see Old Glory wave
  I picture Lady Liberty beckoning
to boatloads of refugees ~
  not cattle rustlers hanging in effigy

When I hear Taps playing
  I think of young soldiers
who gave t...

The Riders of the Purple Sage

...he Riders of the Purple Sage
                                                 
                             

They’re running through the canyons out across the western plains
They’re running un...

Giddy-Up

...Ah, to write
to gather random thoughts
corral them
Giddy-up….whoa….style.
Chase down those tumble weeds,
itinerant thoughts
blown by the whimsical winds
of imagination
into ever unmanageable
...

Car With No Reverse - 1975 Chevy Monza 4 Speed Manual

...I rolled like Caesar down the boulevard the day I came to town.
My triumph was impromptu and abrupt.
I parked my Chevy by the curbside on a gentle downhill slope
In hope there’d be no need for bac...

Lonesome Cowboy

...I heard tell some folks think cowboys built the West.
The only thing I know for sure is I always did my best
to give a man a good days work for an honest wage
ridin' among tumbleweeds and dried br...

The Range Was His Home

...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 life was meant to be hard
Carried his lasso and holsters proud
...

The Evil Twin, Part Iii

...III.
It was the next day the sheriff rode out,
three bodies had been found in a dry gulch.
The sheriff saw Paul meet him at the door,
heard raves from the back, where his brother sulked.

The s...

The Evil Twin, Part I

...I.
It was in the frontier town of Simmons,
in the year eighteen hundred ninety-one,
that two twin brothers, the Malcomson twins,
bought themselves a ranch that they hoped to run.

They were ide...

To Escape Inequity

...In the years of 
nineteen-hundred and sixties 
in palm of muggy 
Mississippi Delta 
we would walk around 
in thick & bitter air, 
we would hide 
in denial’s shadow 
too witness laissez-faire ...

Two Broken Souls, Part Iii

......“Time was I wouldn’t care for your sad state,
I’d have my fun and leave you to your plight,
but four years in a cell changes a man,
and I have set out to live my days right.

“Been in nothing...

The Tale of Billy Flynn

...The Tale of Billy Flynn
Billy Flynn looked skyward
As the fire slowly died
The embers dancing gaily
They had a hard days ride

He looked down at the fire
At the coals and their red glow
"Bett...

Insomnia Sonogram

...agape gave grave to age
bent not to burdens born
cleave verily the leaves of life
distilled stilled styled reviled
entry net try and try
filigree reeds figure loosely
grave gave the age to rage...

When Good Folks Get Mad, Part I

...Madeline Cole worked over the basin,
Washing clothes for her, and her man,
In the wilds of Kansas, 1878,
Where grass, between horizons, did span.

A pretty young woman, a brand new wife
She’d y...

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