FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
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Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Self Pity and Reality
Sometimes when life just feels too damned rough
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
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72
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
She, the River
She begins in droplets falling from the darkened sky.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
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74
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
She Was All I Had
She was the garden of my dreams when I was just a lad.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
75
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Simple Things
In the pale light of early morning I hear Tom T. Hall.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
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77
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Serengeti
Mother Earth, "Sarahn Gaudee," I feel your heart's beat.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
78
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Sir Thomas Wendell Clegg
He came in one of my darkest hours.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
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79
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Someday
When all else falls away there remains faith and hope.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
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Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Some Love Left
In a world that can be ugly as a banshee's grin.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
81
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
The Back Gate
About an hour before dawn we feel our way out of the back gate.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
83
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
The Female Nightrider
We ran about five thousand head.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
85
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
The Greatest Cowboy I Never Knew
In Roosevelt, Utah there's a shop called "Sportsman's Pawn & Gift."
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
87
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
The Gardner Here
Love is a living thing; plant it.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
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Hans "Jake" Jeppson
The Power of Five Words Never Spoken -- "I'm Sorry, I was Wrong"
Five words that might have changed history, "I'm sorry, I was wrong."
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
89
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
The Secret of Perfect Knowledge
A man named "Les" told a story that I think is really "More."
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
90
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Theadrow
I was told he got the name from a disgruntled hired man.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
91
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
The Spirit Mother
Through her heart passes all things eternal.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
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92
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
These Tears and Another Year
What of these tears that well up and pour down my face.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
93
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Placard Type Slogan
Those who break the fragile, lonely heart.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
94
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Tie Ribbons
If I had a Dove, I'd send it on the wing--.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
95
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Trailhead to New Beginnings
High in a Wasatch Temple of the Pines.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
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Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Waltzin' My Hilda
There's been many words written of kings and their queens.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
97
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
We Spit Upon the Cross and Try To Hide the Scars
In the dark, two days before Christmas, I drive 26 miles through pea soup-thick fog.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
FC 11 J-15
99
Hans "Jake" Jeppson
When I Say I Do, Do I?
This isn't a poem about a beautiful fantasy.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
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Hans "Jake" Jeppson
When Love = One
At Christmas I take pen in hand.
What I Learned On the Way to Life: Insights and Concepts learned along the way..
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Hans "Jake" Jeppson
Wild Flowers
I search the mountain in the snow.