FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Frost

A fairy came to call last night With magic wand in hand And with a wave she turned my world Into a wonderland. Her paintbrush etched each blade of grass on diamond-studded slopes.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Behold Old Men

Behold old men! When they meet me They come as near as they can be. They gaze at me with all their might They wrap their arms around me tight With close proximity to ear As if sweet nothings I would hear..

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Soda Pop Morning

Sometimes I have a morning When everything goes wrong. They do not come too often And they do not stay too long. So I try to muddle through them In a grumbly sort of way, Waiting for a new tomorrow. Hoping for a better day.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

She Loved Her Horses

She loved her horses. From the time She learned to walk, she never did If she could ride there on a horse. She was a coltish sort of kid With long slim legs and wind-tossed mane no time for ribbons and for curls For horses fill her every thought.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

New Year's Eve--2005

We didn't celebrate New Year As we did in yesteryears, Didn't trip the light fantastic Didn't party with our peers. There were no horns nor whistles No silly hates no leis.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Rattlesnakes

Our land is full of rattlesnakes We find them everywhere. They slither through tall grasses, Sunbathe where rocks are bare. They have a dry and scaly skin And a bright and beady eye. Their fangs are filled with venom That will likely make you die.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Winter

The night is cold on the prairie land And the snow is drifted deep. The little creeks lie silent now Held fast in their winter's sleep.

Prairie Wife

Elizabeth Ebert

FC 11 E-20

The Day After Christmas

'Twas the day after Christmas But it looked a lot more Like an occupied village Right after a war. Wrecked toys on the carpet And there by the wall The remains of a priceless imported doll.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Christmas Program At a Country School

Christmas programs come and go They're forgotten as a rule But well do I remember one Back in our country school. The teacher wanted Santa Claus To come at program's close Deliver gifts and candy canes With hearty "Ho ho Ho's."

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Bread and Soup

The rain weeps constant down the window pane. Somehow it seems as though the whole earth grieves I idly pick the faded purple flowers Of oxalis from the heart-shaped leaves That train in green abandon o'er it's pot.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Fifty-eighth Anniversary

He brought me no flowers from the shop in the town No dainty corsage to pin on my gown. No fragrant carnations, no daffodils gay, But if kisses were roses, I'd have a boquet.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Twenty-first Anniversary

We have reached a majority. Twenty-one conglomerate years of marriage. Good times and bad, sickness and health, Joy and sorrow.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Butterfly

In brown cocoon, in self-spun web, Fast in its silken fold A butterfly waits hidden Through winter's dark and cold. Then one warm day, quite tentatively, It struggles forth to dry Its fragile wings and courage gain To spread them out and fly.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Victoria's Christmas Secret

He was lean and lank and grizzled And he'd seen a lot of life, He was off upon a mission Christmas shopping for his wife It shouldn't be too difficult For clutched within his fist Written out to make things easy Was her short and simple list.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Raindrop Horses

Conquistadors had brought them from old Spain From Mexico they scattered north and west Across the New World's open unfenced land, Traded and raided, a motley bunch at best Descendants of the Arabs and the Barbs.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Dedicated to the Bad River Ap Ranch

If ever I've the urge to travel On roads devoid of tar or gravel or in the wilderness, of course I'll need to have a trusty horse.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Perfect Pioneer

We could have crossed wild rivers side by side Felled giant trees and turned the virgin sod And carved an empire in an untamed land. My presence like a star to guide you. I would have born tall sons for you And daughters also, like shy deer.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

Elizabeth Ebert

Moses

His mama named him Moses, Though she'd never been a bride, She sort of found him in the rushes Down by the riverside. Hoped that he'd become a leader And that is what he did, For he went ad joined the army When he was just a kid.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

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Elizabeth Ebert

Fall

King Midas would have loved the fall With all it's golden hue, The wheat fields ripened by the sun, The combines that will spew Their wealth into the waiting trucks, The yellow ears of corn, The pumpkins bright amid the vines.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

107

Elizabeth Ebert

Rich Man's Lady

I awoke one dismal morning With a gray front moving in, With aching bones from too long hours, Just dreading to begin The tasks that loomed like mountains, The endless, thankless work That ranch wives share with ranchers, That doubles if they shirk.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

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Elizabeth Ebert

It's a Pickup, Stupid

It's a cause for irritation and I really think it sucks When city dudes drive pickups but refer to them as trucks Though they both have wheels and motors they are not at all the same The largest is the semi of eighteen wheeler frame.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

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Elizabeth Ebert

Silly Stuff

The outlaw galloped into town, through blizzards sleet and snow The wind blew fiercely from the north, 'twas forty-five below.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

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Elizabeth Ebert

The Viking Cowboys

"Rub a dub, dub, Three men in a tub." That story is old, that is true. So I'll tell you another About a cowboy and his brother Who attempted to sail a canoe.

Prairie Wife

FC 11 E-20

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Elizabeth Ebert

Spring Song for the Mature Woman

If I were young and slim again I'd greet the soft spring rains With purely pagan ritual I'd run down misty lanes. A dryad, naiad, oread Depending on locale.

Prairie Ward

FC 11 E-20

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Elizabeth Ebert

Maternity Ward

They say old ways return in time That nothing's ever new. Now kids are being born at home Just like folks used to do. New fathers learn about Lamaze And how to time contractions, Officiate at birthing time With calm, deliberate actions.