Short Stetson Poems

somber handsome Marlboro man on a painted stallion
a mirage has appeared in the dust bowl wearing chaps
his worn Stetson is pulled low,
he outshines the cover of a juicy romance novel
I do not know his name but he takes my breath away
he rides to the west...

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Repetutunt proprios quaeque recursus  

No Stetson
No it is opposition
Never odd or even
Selfles sees selfles
Did
We few
Sexes
As a
Flesh self
Deified
Eves sensuousness eve
Lived evil
Deed
n’
Devils eyes lived
n’
Sees
Eros  

Each line is a palindrome but the last, though still read it form S to E...

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work in progress
Footle of Country Bands

S**t Kickers/slide guitar
cowboys 
Stetson 

John Denver/folk music
“Thank God”
fiddler


Footle Of Rock Bands

Guitar strings/stockings
steely 
nylons

Big hair/bands
hairspray
glamour 

Roadies/Hotel
seconds
trashed rooms

Thrash/Punk Rock
Bangers
Façade...

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*Image of Ten Gallon Stetson by IBA.

A Hat Full

A cowboy with a ten-gallon hat,
Seen a spittoon and gave it a spat,
A girl screamed, "That's my vase!",
She then frowned in his face,
And stepped on his hat and made it flat.

2022 May 07
*1st Place*
High Noon
~~Joseph May: Judged 2022 May 08

RZ, HMS: 9,9,6,6,9....

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My Favorite Hat
Happens to be brown
One thing about it
It's the talk of the town

Being very well made
To wear on my head
I even think about it 
Before I go to bed

The Stetson is it's name
This hat I wear so well
I wish you all could see it
You would agree it is so swell

So as I begin to think
I know this is a fact
The thing I really treasury
Is my favorite hat....

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Kansas City
Fountains of Lights
Beautiful Sunsets
Friendly Natives
Bar-B-Q

Kansas City
Friends galore
Stetson hats
Cultures from around the world
Hallmark cards

Kansas City
Royals
Chiefs
Easy Access Airport
My adopted hometown


Kansas City
Aquarium
Polar Bears and Giraffes
Tigers and Lions 
Zoo Friends

Kansas City
Fountains of Lights
Beautiful people
Welcomed me eleven years ago
My adopted city
Bar-B-Q...

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Executive decision
 
I ain't an executive and I'll tell you why
Cause I couldn't wear no suit and tie
 
Give me my Stetson and my cowboy shirt
My wore out blue jeans all covered in dirt
 
Put me in a board room
It would spell doom
 
I'd act real threatful
Then pull out my pistol
 
Then I'd cock back the hammer
And pull on the trigger
 
I'd scream and laugh and act real cuckoo
and let someone else clean up the poo
 
By Mike Francis...

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you may have lost your Stetson
you'll always have your boots
you're still wearing them Wranglers
and you still like to shoot
you still love the mountains
and all of them country tunes
you may not have a Stetson
but you still have cowboy roots

maybe you don't rope and punch
there are oh so many ways
that you can be a cowboy
on your best of days
with the kindly "thank ya ma'am"
and your beat up truck
"cowboy" is just a label
and that label is stuck...

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