farewell
...Farewell
I'm tired of Portugal
this small country, not bigger
than a hamlet in Spain
their worldview is what
is seen from an Olive cops
small-minded
and deceitful, bewildering
where t...
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Categories:
sheepherders, anti bullying, betrayal, courage,
Form: Blank verse
Marveling Upon the Star of Bethlehem a Story of the Nativity
...Early autumn on the rise against the night sky
two silhouettes, black against the clouds of stars
one sit riding sideways upon an ass
while another walk beside holding the lead
alon...
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Categories:
sheepherders, child, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Olive Copse
...Olive copse
Sitting indoors being old and are forbidden
to go outside, I dream of lazier days
then in the heat of summer, I had siesta under
a 500 years olive tree.
I was dreaming of the shep...
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Categories:
sheepherders, break up, deep, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Marveling Upon the Star of Bethlehem
...Early autumn on the rise against the night sky
two silhouette, black against the clouds of stars
one sits riding sideways upon an ass
while another walk beside holding the lead
alon...
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Categories:
sheepherders, birth, child, jesus, ,
Form: Free verse
Barbed Wire
...Barbed wire seems a 'thorny' subject on which to opine,
But there arose a need for such for people and beasts to confine!
Cowpokes cussed as they worked with it mutilating their hands.
Sheepherder...
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Categories:
sheepherders, history
Form: Rhyme
What Got Tom's Broke Back Broke
...There ain’t never been much love ‘twixt them two out on the range—
Seems cowmen has always thought that them sheepherders were strange.
Then one day in rides a poke by the name of Tom Campbell—
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Categories:
sheepherders, confusion, cowboy-western, funny, social,
Form: Cowboy Poetry