FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
24
Elizabeth Ebert
Store Candy
Don't go, she said, we'll do with what we have
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
27
Elizabeth Ebert
An Old Cowboy's Prayer
I never thought too much about Heaven, Lord, I know it must be nice 'cause You are there, but I'm afraid those angels flyin' round all playin' on their golden harps, might scare this spooky bronc of mine.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
28
Dennis Gaines
Dem Buckin' Bronco Blues
I guess Wrango Jim was fifty-four and crowdin' fifty-five, and I reckoned he was justa bout the toughest man alive.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
29
Dennis Gaines
Alone
Cowboy! Ho! The title he'll claim and give to his flesh and bone,
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
32
Bill Larsen
The Grocery List
Well Babe, I need some groceries for my cow camp on the hill
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
34
Bill Larsen
God's Summer Range
The grass grows thick in this mountain crick, the cows and sheep like it fine
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
35
Mike Logan
The Devil an' Ol' Billie Bob
Ol' Billie Bob is plumb confused. He'd be the rist to tell.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
38
Mike Logan
Temptation
You think you know temptation 'cause you've seen the city lights or the gleam of easy money or some dance hall girls in tights?
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
40
Tom McBeth
Quality Time
Last spring we gathered the calves and the cows, there was more work to do than the law would allow.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
42
Tom McBeth
The Touch
Since back when he was just a sprout he learned he had to lean into the weight each day dished out and sweat was something clean.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
44
Rod McQuery
For Woody
From the snowdrifts in the canyons, behind the granite and the pinion past the trout and beaver, where young quakies crowd to share;
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
47
Rod McQuery
For Souls
Perhaps, he said, it's not a man's heart or mind that drive him down to surging sea, to straining mast.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
48
Wallace McRae
Snuffy and Sodie and the Cowboy Code
Now I ain't scared a' grizzly bears, old Snuffy says one day 'N wolverines n' catamounts to me is pure child's play
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
52
Wallace McRae
Little Things
I've laid for hours upon my back just looking at the sky, at clouds; or if the sky was clear, the motes in my eye.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
53
Larry McWhorter
Waitin' on the Drive
It's four o'clock when the cook's bell calls raisin' cowboys up from their dreams.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
56
Larry McWhorter
Cowboy Count Your Blessings
Two waddies rode together o'er the western half so great, a buckeroo from Utah and a hand from the Lone Star State.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
58
Bob Peterson (Wyoming Bob)
Horses, Cattle and Men
Of horses, cattle, and men, my friend, I speak of the life I know.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
61
Bob Peterson (Wyoming Bob)
Gracious Lady of My Childhood
I'm a son of Wyoming kin to sagebrush, wind, and sand, where the mountains touch the heavens wild unspoiled by hand of man.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
63
Vess Quinlan
Seeking the Old Ones
Fascinated by our devices in love with our horses you saw we were clever and could be brave fighters.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
65
Vess Quinlan
The Trouble with Dreams
She followed me to ranches that were a long way from anywhere, made sad houses smile when they hadn't in years.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
67
Vess Quinlan
The Old Hands
It's good to set and listen to their talk of log ago, these men with skin like leather and hair as white as snow
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
69
Buck Ramsey
Notes for a Novel
I cannot sleep. All time is passing. The old days fade like dusking light. Oh, fast awake, I want a sounding that carried sleep one long gone night.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
76
Buck Ramsey
One Seraphic Ride
As dark was spreading on the air Old Dunder came in grinnin' like some lit candled pumpkin face, and well before they cleaned their plates he loosed a yarn he didn?t' care would keep them up unspinning.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
79
Red Steagall
An Old Friend
I stood by the fountain as they brought him in. A lost lonely look on his face.
Coolin' Down: An Anthology of Contemporary Cowboy Poetry
Phil Martin
FC 11 M-53
81
Red Steagall
Deacon and the Dun
Ol' Deacon was a puncher, born a hundred years too late. A top hand and he sure as hell was tough.