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Saddlebags Poems - Poems about Saddlebags

Premium Member Coping Skills
...(Family heirloom, Persian Gharajeh rug) Coping Skills The world is certainly not as it should be. Maybe it’s always been that way, But now we know 24/7. So we each and all cope as b......

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Categories: saddlebags, addiction, art, death, society,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Twilight's Reflection's
... Twilight's Reflection's A Tribute To" Mr. G" By: Tom Wright 5/29/99 In life's twilight, your youth, having long been spent. I've observed you pass the hours, reading western novels, ......

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Categories: saddlebags, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Just About Gone
...I’ll be just about ready when it’s just about time To do whatever needs to be done. With my Winchester loaded and my bay freshly shod, I’m riding off to seek the setting sun. Since it’s just ......

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Categories: saddlebags, break up, divorce,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member What Have You Done
...You own the spotlight at every premier. The paparazzi hone the tip of your spear. You scoff at rumors you were ever the one, But what have you done? Your limo whisks you away from the curb. Yo......

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Categories: saddlebags, addiction,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Are Horses As Brave As Cowboys
...Their bridled haunt, each day may be their last; yeehaw.* The narrow way, down mountainside, and clop of shoes. The saddlebags dip left and right in gait and gnaw. The spirit wind and pouring r......

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Categories: saddlebags, animal, courage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Saddlebags
...behind the cowboy heavy shadows of sunset loneliness astride 9/13/2020......

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Categories: saddlebags, lonely, sunset,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member A Visit From Some Old Friends
...A Visit From Some Old Friends (Thanking Carl and Phyllis) By Franklin Price 10/02/2015 A visit from some old friends Turns back the hands of time Back to the days of riding And maybe misdeme......

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Categories: saddlebags, friendship, meaningful, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Getting Deputized
... Round up the posse, get ‘em vetted Oval Office ganksterized Appoint the piggy snouts, then send ‘em out with metal sidearm power Ancient oppression done got modernized, old Egypt Mem......

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Categories: saddlebags, allusion, corruption, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas On Hooves
...Pony Express Christmas Card Ride You asked about our Christmas here. Do reindeer pull the sleigh to carry loads of gifts and cheer? Hoofed beasts we have, they eat fine hay and in the rain ......

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Categories: saddlebags, christmas, history, holiday,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Walk Home
...We paused in the shade Of the cool, green, cedar tree Ties flapping in wind Satchels hung like saddlebags We raced home like wild horses......

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Categories: saddlebags, brother, child, school,
Form: Tanka
The Eel River Tragedy
...Eel River Tragedy I’ve gold dollars for my darlin and a Stetson for my son, and in my old broke saddlebags, I keep my Schofield gun, when home I’ll make some coffee and tell a tale I’ve seen, ......

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Categories: saddlebags, loss, remember, river,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Quest For Gold
...painted desert lay before them hills with rings of gold and amber clay few plants, scarce water just a coyote or roadrunner on horseback they rode dreaming of hidden gold saddleba......

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Categories: saddlebags, native american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Lightning, Spooks and Me
...I'm as free as the wind as I sway in the saddle! I love life! There's no clutter, nothing to addle! I give my faithful horse Wild Lightning free rein, As we meander across God's magnificent terra......

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Categories: saddlebags, cowboy-western, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Wistful Aging
...Age gracefully…that’s what I’ll do Going to ignore the lines, how about you? Inner beauty is what really counts I happen to love my drooping mounts Absolutely no Botox or fillers for me Anothe......

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Categories: saddlebags, passion, visionary, beauty, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Braced For War
...Braced for War The atmosphere is rigidly braced. The boots of warriors are tightly laced. Water horns are filled to the brim. Staples in saddlebags bulge their rims. Armies flank the four wi......

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Categories: saddlebags, inspirational
Form: Rhyme

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