FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
4
Wallace McRae
Squallin' Balley and Diablo
It's a story oft repeated in soulful cowboy rhymes: Old Squallin' Balley topped the ridge to that pasture in the sky.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
6
Rod McQueary
Remembering a Middle-Age Bronc Ride
I sicc'ed him on a longhorn cow, tried to beat her down a hill, I probably spurred too hard, the old dry cow had sure set sail.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
9
Pete Bennettt
If We all Rode Horses like the Ones We Used toRide
Have you ever sat un camp attending a bull-slinging session?
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
10
Larry McWhorter
The Retirement of Ashtola
When a day's work is done in the limits of town a man leaves his job at the site then he meets with his friends at their pet waterhole to watch a big game or a fight
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
14
Henry Herbert Knibbs
Walkin' John
Walkin' John was a big rope-hoss, from over Morongo way; when you laid your twine on a ragin' steer, old John was there to stay.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
17
Tim Jobe
A Second Chance
In the Anacacho Mountain where the slick rock is the king and the blackbrush and guajillo own the land, a bay colt was born one morning by a barely flowing spring on the Texas ranch of a shorenuff old cowman.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
20
Laurie Wagner Buyer
His Horses
I do not dream of him or the way he once held me, I dream of him and his horses, their names sliding through fingers of consciousness like butter-soft reins on a worn-out summer day
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
22
Tom Sharpe
Sally
Boss told me quite a story 'bout what this mare could do.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
25
Darin Brookman
Tempered Souls
I've seen the horses gamely trot defiant in the still.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
26
Will Ogilvie
The Pearl of Them All
Gaily in front of the stockwhip the horses come galloping home, leaping and bucking and playing with sides all a lather of foam; but painfully, slowly behind them, with head to the crack of the fall, and trying so gamely to follow comes limping the pearl of them all.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
28
Joel Nelson
Equus Caballus
I have run on middle fingernail through Eolithic morning and I've thundered down the coach roads with the Revolution's warning I have carried countless errant knights who never found the grail I have strained before the caissons and moved the nation's mail
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
30
Jess Howard
Racehorse
Joe showed up at the racetrack with a horse that sure could run, An' when the dust had settled he had outrun everyone.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
32
Ellis Campbell
Wanda Jill
Now the stable door is sagging and its creaking hinges groan, and the bridle-bit is rusting in its gloom.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
34
D. Enise and Debra Coppinger Hill
Spirits Pure
I could not see them, but I knew they were there, the ground filled with thunder, shaking my soul.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
36
Chalres "Badger" Clark
Ridin'
There is some that like the city grass that's curried smooth and green, theayters and stranglin' collars, wagons run by gasoline.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
38
Wylie Gustafson
A Good One
There's nuthin' like a good one between yer knees light to the rein and willin' to please together as one the day will be done on a good one, I'll find my way home.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
40
Dennis Gaines
A Different Point of View
"What a satisfying life you have" said the blue-haired matron,
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
42
Dallas McCord
The Parrot
It was time to hire a new camp cook, the old camp cook had died.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
44
Howard Norskog
The Christian Horse
I called old Buck the Christian horse. You'll wonder why I say, but every time I stepped abroad that's when I learned to pray.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
45
Dee Strickland Johnson
Recipe for Rough
A little boy climbed on his grandfather's knee, said, "Grandpa, how come you're so tough?"
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
46
Georgie Sicking
Doctoring Worms
You had had some stormy weather some good old summer rain.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
48
Charlotte Thompsonh
Charlotte's Cow
Some people say and believe it: A cowboy won't milk a cow.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
50
R. W. Hampton
Just Had to Run and Rope Him
I just had to run and rope him. Seemed like the thing to do.
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
52
Ed Brown
Small Towns
Just a nosy, bossy spinster allergic to all fun her life's devotion: Gossip every town's got one
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Cowboy Poetry: The Reunion
Virginia Bennett
FC 11 B-33
53
Echo Roy-Klaproth
Our 10th Anniversary
This morning when he bellered out, "Cut 'er," I watched a fat, ten-year-old dry saunter down the alley, oblivious to her fate; but I took it personally, givin' her the gate.