FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
My Best Pack-In Trips
My pack-in trips in the wilderness, With groups both large and small, By hundreds truly are told, I guess, And I've enjoyed them all.
trail ride, packing in, hunting trip, fishing trip, marriage, wife, pack
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
First Snow
Last night we watched when it began to snow, Big flakes as though by fairies wafted down; So quietly from clouds to earth below, To spread a blanket white atop our town.
snow, winter, first snow
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Milk-Pen Maneuver
This farmer's religion was laudably strict.
milk pail, Bossy, milking, humor, farm animals
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
A Heritage to Save
When Christopher Columbus sailed across the sea; He found America where vast resources lurk.
ravage of land, conservation, natural resources
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Horse Sense
I have four legs, that's very true, While man was given only two; Is that sufficient reason why; He should not walk as well as I?
horseback riding
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Time to Shut Up
They done stole my horse; So I don't need hay; I ain't got no eggs; 'Cause my hens won't lay.
farm, domestic animals, humor
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
A Promise Kept
The Priest found out, right after dismissing; The good folks attending Christmas Mass, That a statue of the Christ Child was missing; From its niche in the church where people pass.
religion, theft, steal, childhood, doll buggy
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Next Year We Will Go Again
We elk hunters camped in a mountain park, In the edge of the timber there.
storm, nature, blizzard
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
The Measure of a Successful Hunt
There's a time in each year when we hunt the buck deer, With hopes we'll be able to find one.
wild meat, game, sportsman, hunting
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Beatty's Cabin
George Beatty was a mountain man; Who just about a hundred years ago, Like all prospectors, had a plan; To mine and strike it rich come weal or woe.
gold, Pecos Wilderness, prospector
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
One for the Long, Long Road
When Saint Peter once answered a knock on the gate, A new candidate begged, "Please my sins expiate."
heaven, car accident, auto wreck
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Morgues and Jails -- Let's Cheat 'Em
I swear I will follow these rules without fail, And thus keep away from a morgue or a jail.
liquor, driving, gasoline, gas, drunk driving, car, automobile
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Christmas
Of all the days throughout the year; There's one that always brings good cheer, The one when children are most gay, That one, of course, is Christmas day.
holiday, Christ, religion
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Creation
When God wed Mother Nature to Old Father Time, Untold millions of years ago, He decreed they should toil, for conditions were prime, To develop the world we know.
creation, Adam and Eve, religion
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
A Whimper Heard Across the Nation
In fire-blackened forest where ground was still hot, With smoldering snags and charred logs strewn around, A fire-fighting Game Warden stopped on the spot, His ears had detected a whimpering sound.
forest fire, bear, nature, wild animals, Smokey the Bear, zoo, fire fighting
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Vapor Trails
When I was young the skies were clean and blue; Untrammeled and unmarked by works of man.
birds, plane, jet, conservation
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Not So Not
When I was young they preached; That heaven was bliss, And hell a red-hot spot; That we should miss.
religion
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Old Man and Boys
Grandsons are asking what to do, Give them advice and help them too.
grandpa, grandfather, camping, camp-out
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Thoughts at Eighty
When you're old it's not like it used to be, not at all like it was away back when.
aging, old-age
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Beautiful Women
All women, I concede, are beautiful, But some are made more so.
female
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
His Preference
We had a friend who traveled far and wide to meetings galore.
curiosity, wife, love
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
They Sing for Some Folks
In the thirties when times were real bad, With banks going broke and dust bowls galore, An old rancher lost all that he had, Turned over the keys and walked out the door.
debt, recession, Depression, luck, bird dropping, hard times, humor
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Horses in My Life
"A horse! For a horse my kingdom I'd give."
pack horse, love for horses
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
To My Old Hunting Dogs
They say that a dog is man's very best friend.
Outdoors, Faith, Fun and Other Poems
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Elliott S. Barker
Windy or Not
A right famous saying equaled by few, Was made by Fulton, first steamship inventor.
mini-skirt, clothing, humor