FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Trail Mix: Cowboy Language, Lingo, Poetry & Recipes
Diane Tribitt
FC 11 T-18
46
Diane Tribitt
Chosen Angels
Don't try to measure heartaches. Never stop to count your tears for every life is measured by love and not by years.
This poem was written for the ND Legion Auxiliary Memorial Day ceremony.
Trail Mix: Cowboy Language, Lingo, Poetry & Recipes
Diane Tribitt
FC 11 T-18
48
Diane Tribitt
Leadin' A Spare
He arrived in a shiny red Caddy, a city-slick green as could be, with new customized plates that spelled COWBOY, and a built-right-in color TV.
Inspired from the potograph by the same name by Jeri Dobrowski, as part of Art Spur at cowboypoetry.com competition.
Trail Mix: Cowboy Language, Lingo, Poetry & Recipes
Diane Tribitt
FC 11 T-18
50
Diane Tribitt
A Christmas Tale
I met up with a rancher and he asked me if I knew a couple cowboys needin' work for just a day or two.
Inspired by Mick Harrison's photograph of the same name.
Trail Mix: Cowboy Language, Lingo, Poetry & Recipes
Diane Tribitt
FC 11 T-18
53
Diane Tribitt
The Wedding Poem
A lariat was tossed out wide. Its target caught, somehow and in its loop was tangled up a cowboy, bride, and vow. I know it sounds a bit far-fetched, buy you'll begin to see the logic of that staement, and just how it came to be.
Written for Tom and Diane Marshik, married 8 September 2006.
Trail Mix: Cowboy Language, Lingo, Poetry & Recipes
Diane Tribitt
FC 11 T-18
Diane Tribitt
Book of poetry (pages 12-53), cowboy sayings (pages 54-71), cowboy lingo (pages 72-143), rodeo [term glossary] (pages 144-159), poker [term glossary] (pages 160-195), Native American [North American tribe names, poetry, tribal name meanings] (pages 196-233), Special Feature: Will Dudley poetry, 234-243, chuck wagon cookin (recipes) (pages 244-293), photos (pages 294-303)
Trail Mix: Cowboy Language, Lingo, Poetry & Recipes
Diane Tribitt
FC 11 T-18
239
Will Dudley
Colorado Horses
We were up before the sunrise loaded up the horses, we were gone crossed La Veta Pass in to that sweet San Luis Valley, rolling on
From Trying to Rope the Moon
Trail Mix: Cowboy Language, Lingo, Poetry & Recipes
Diane Tribitt
FC 11 T-18
29
Diane Tribitt
What's it Take
He studied them intently as he watched them idsappear. What's it take to ba a cowboy, Mom?
Trail Mix: Cowboy Language, Lingo, Poetry & Recipes
Diane Tribitt
FC 11 T-18
243
Will Dudley
Coyote Moom
The Ashes of the fire lay scattered all around the desert breezes shifted, then died down of in the hills I heard a lonesome tune one coyote howling at the moon
From Trying to Rope the Moon
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
A. B. (Alexander Beaton) Melton
Cowboy and ranch life in Texas, including some songs and poetry.
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
68
Mrs. Sadie Meckley
Toast For our Texas Boy Friend
Here's to one young man that had a great delight he felt at home with the ladies, never out of his sight showed no partiality, loved them all
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
68
unknown
God Bless Our Boys
God bless our boys, where ever they be, God bless our boys on land as on the sea.
Composed in 1944
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
69
Ruth Kenney
A man from Texas came one day to learn to live the Unity way.
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
69
Rev. William Pelly, D. D.
untitled
Some people appear to be as hard as ice upon a cold winter lake; But, oh, if there is sun enough the ice will surely break
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
71
unknown
Rock Me to Sleep in the Rockies
When shades of twilight come stealing and shadows are falling fast 'tis then a dream comes appealing for one spot from out the past.
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
71
unknown
Cowboy's Prayer
O Lord I've never lived where churches grow; I've loved creation better where it stood
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
74
Della Adams Leitner
Thy Will Be Done
How I once feared to pray, Thy Will, believing there could be sorrow or ill or pain or woe
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
92
Myrtle Page Fillmore
Happy Birthday!
In the life of omnipresence do I dwell 'Tis above, around, within me, all is well;
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
92
Myrtle Page Fillmore
untitlted
Peace like a river it floweth so free, out from the heart of infinity, O, blessed spirit, it floweth for thee Peace like a river, peace like a river
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
96
Elmore Dodson
A True Friend
There is no death. The stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore, and bright in heaven's jeweled crown they shine forever more.
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
96
Lovie Melton Hancock
My Oldest Daughter
You can talk about your poets, Longfellow, Emerson, and Guest, but I know a modern poet, who lives away out west.
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
97
A. B. Melton
Youth
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
98
A. B. Melton
A Law We All Should Know
If I could write something sweet to everyone I know, something sweet would come to me; it's a law we all should know.
Seventy Years in the Saddle
A. B. Melton
FC 11 M-52
99
G. A. Richards
Elmo and I
We came out West long, long ago to watch the grass and cattle grow;
My Name is Federick Rice and I was born here: Story of a real Cowboy in Big Bend
FC 11 E-17
Stanley Ewald, Jean Ewald, Phyllis Grolla
Biography of cowboy Fredrick Rice from Big Bend, Texas
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
2
Holiday and Hampton Poet (AKA Bruce Kiskaddon)
Busted
Sometimes a hoss starts out all right. He doesn't buck, he doesn't fight.