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:
stetsons, christmas, history, holiday,
Form: Terza Rima
Thrift Shop Foreshadowing
...Thrift Store Foreshadowing
by Odin Roark
Inventory of past life inventories
Poised in dress-parade attention
Obliging his obligatory inspection,
Seeking the suit ...
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Categories:
stetsons, death,
Form: Prose Poetry
Windblown
...They call Chicago
the windy city,
but Great Falls, Montana
deserves the tag.
When I stepped off the train,
the wind blew me backward,
step for step. ...
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Categories:
stetsons, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Hoe-Down
...The dancing pardners, dressed in dungarees,
With checkered shirts, and Stetsons, boots and spurs,
Are at a wedding. Joy the bride now asks
The band to play a tune that she prefers.
The fiddl...
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Categories:
stetsons, wedding,
Form: Quatrain
Cowboy Hoedown
...The dancing pardners, dressed in dungarees,
With checkered shirts, and Stetsons, boots and spurs,
Are at a wedding. Joy the bride now asks
The band to play a tune that she prefers.
The fiddle m...
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Categories:
stetsons, fun, boy,
Form: Quatrain
Catch That Hat
...Chicago's been dubbed the windy town,
but Great Falls has that tag nailed down.
If you're facing Montana's fierce wind,
you're moving where you didn't intend.
Prairie grass rolls like ocean wav...
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Categories:
stetsons, wind,
Form: Rhyme
C and W He and She
...HE:
I like my Stetsons tall
and my women small;
leather and laces in
all the right places!
SHE:
So I bought the orchid myself
and pretended you sent it.
We dined, drank, danced
and made lo...
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Categories:
stetsons, love,
Form: I do not know?
A Cowboy Is
...The unsung heroes of the open plains
The outlaw bandits like Jesse James
Cut throat thieves and black jack hustlers
Green horn Cowboys and long horn rustlers
They all stood the Cow...
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Categories:
stetsons, cowboy-western
Form: Rhyme
Texas
...TEXAS
Is a vast place, bigger than France, and in many ways much more interesting.
El Capitan reef, the Pecos, the Panhandle, all conjure up more imagination
Than a truckload of Monma...
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Categories:
stetsons, places
Form: Light Verse
Hats
...The world was a cold place
in the time of hats.
The past, and would be present place
a cold place.
Fedoras, Stetsons, and Stovepipe hats
Scottish Tam o’shanters, Raccoon caps
and feathered he...
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Categories:
stetsons, adventure, cowboy-western, education, history,
Form: Free verse