FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Howard Norskog

There's not a whole lot I have left here the land it took all that I made but I've seen no life out behind me that I would have taken in trade. (from "Lonesome John"). Buck him down easy Lord, buck him on down. Remember dear Father, he's only a man. (from "Buck Me Down Easy").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Chuck Larsen

Layin' back, I take a drink of the night savor its bouquet, drinkin' in sips. (from "Blue Cowboy Moon"). It was a Ma and Pa Kettle outfit and we lived from episode to episode. (from "Dad's Place").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Chuck Larsen

I met my reflection eye to eye held my pride by a single thread and whipped and spurred my existence until my conscience bled. (from "Stock Tank Reflections").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Jim Kitchens

The campfire's burned out for Roy and Gene, he conjures up others now just in dreams... (from "The Campfire's Burned Out"). A hat's like a wife my Dad used to say, when new and hard-bodied, it pinched when it sat, but like the woman I married, it grows softer with time; the pinch now a pat, and my hat fits just fine. (untitled)

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Chuck Pyle

He blew in on a wayward gust what you might call a drifter's wind, a six foot frame of hobo dust a rugged life had sifted thin. (from "Drifter's Wind"). You can't push the river, that mighty river's just going to flow. (from "Keepin' Time by the River").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Lyn Messersmith

Kinship forged of silence, and the graces of weathered hands on reins and love of open spaces. (from "Next of Kin"). In the slantin' light of a day worn down to shadows, just like him. (from "Scoop").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Lyn Messersmith

Cold wind searches out the cracks under the door; steals across the floor to warm its icy fingers at the fire. (from "Reservation Blues"). Seems a natural fact that spring is mostly wind here 'bouts. Comes howlin' around the meadow and scampers up the draw. (from "The Overseer").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

John Nelson

Some days come and some days go but "some day" never gets here. "Some day" is just a dream away "some day" is always next year. (from "I'm Going Someday"). Some day I'm going to write a poem about procrastination. (from "Procrastination").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Virginia Bennett

Why, we were fine and fancy... no cares beyond the ranch gate, our only worries keepin' calves alive and shippin' 'em eight months later. 'Til we tasted immortality on a stage or 'round a campfire and you, who came back to hear our words, became the instigator. (from "We are the Poets").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Joel Nelson

A dozen broncs stand shivering, the mist is rolling in, there's a slicker on the top rail, and a breaker in the pen. (from "The Breaker in the Pen"). History wrote his epitaph when barbed wire cut the range while he was but an embryo adjusting to the change. (from "The Shadow on the Cutbank").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Sunny Hancock

I don't want to go into detail but if ole pard would'a fell in the creek, a man with a five gallon bucket could'a stood and skimmed dumb for a week. (from "Cowdogs, Generally Speaking").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Carole Jarvis

And although I'm sure he meant his wedding vows, His pledge to love and honor, forsaking all others, in his cowboy's mind, did not extend to cows! (from "His Other Love"). There's nothin' looks no better or gives a man more ease, than an old cow full of water, in grass up to her knees. (from "Water, Cows, and Grass").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Jack Ostergard

A breed of guys who spent their lives with a cow's rear-end for a compass. (from "Drovers Past and Present"). It's not a foreign language, and there is no college course. It's been developed through the years from the topside of a horse. (from "Talkin' Cow").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Howard Parker

So another of life's lessons wipes the smile plumb off your face, when you find out that the chore boy is the best hand on the place. (from "The Chore Boy"). And there is nothing beats a grass-fat steer that's wearing someone else's brand. (from "Grass-Fat Steer").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Howard Parker

There was the smoke of many campfires, somewhere back behind his eyes. (from "Just Another Indian"). Oh, I still love the gatherings and go to all that time allows, but it's hard to be a cowboy poet if you actually own cows. (from "The Cowboy Poet").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Larry McWhorter

Be it first you or me, let us here now agree; I'll meet you at the Throne. (from "I'll meet You at the Throne"). For once again I've horses to fill my spirit's hole; Dear God, oh how I've missed them and how they ease my soul. (from "Therapy").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Dee Strickland Johnson

I rise reluctantly and mount the little mare who really thinks we're bound somewhere. (from "Fredonia"). There is nothing quite so moving, quite so silent, quite so strange as the Lord's most recent wonder-- birth of morning on the range. (from "Morning in the High Hills").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

J.B. Allen

A group of words redeemed from time To last when he moves on, Set down with hurried flourish 'Fore his mem'ry of 'em's gone. (from "The Medicine Keepers"). The stories wrote down through the last ninety days With feelin's and thoughts tucked around Will leave 'em some mem'ries of times long ago 'Fore cattle were sold by the pound. (from "Line Camp Legacy").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

J.B. Allen

"Git some schoolin', boy," they'd tell me, "Punchin' cows don't never pay." But their eyes always betrayed 'em When they told their tales each day. (from "Legacy"). Small wonder The pompered young men of the day Retain callous youth on a chain, Protected and fed Under bubbles of glass From life and its portals of pain. (from "Rites of Passage").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Paul Zarzyski

The Guinness caresses the Harp as you sip it; Forgiveness, it blesses the heart if you let it. (from "Black Upon Tan"). So we'd revel every minute in the music of our Buick running smooth, two rodeoin' lovers cruising to another-- beaneath Montana's blue roan Bucking Horse Moon. (from "The Bucking Horse Moon").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Paul Zarzyski

...Not one speck of simplistic myth between us and the West that was, sometimes still is, and thus will be forever and ever, amen. (from "One Sweet Evening Just This Year").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Mike Logan

First light it's just a showin'; dawn's comin' cold an' damp. Looks like o le Bob and Roanie's gonna entertain the camp. (from "When Horses Talk War..."). They made circles on the rangelands eagle wild and dog wolf free. Bounded only by horizons, flung so far no eye could see. (from "Men of the Open Range").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Mike Logan

Ain't nothin' much romantic when the hosses go sharp shod an' you see the mad dog faces of the howlin' winter god. (from "Romantic"). I heard the wild geese sing, last night, far up where they always fly. A lovely high skied nocturne, they sang, winging north in a velvet sky. (from "The Song of Spring").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Layle Bagley

About looks, Jed just didn't seem to care much. He let everything about him just slip. (from "One Horse/Cow Ranch"). But the years kept on addin' up, to a time when your body gets old. Worn out bones and parts that don't function, tell you it's time for your ranchin' to fold. (from "Remembering").

Scattered, Lasting Remnants: "Fine Lines" of Poetry and Song

Echo Klaproth

FC 11 K-25

Ellie Corrigan

Trust is the fragile thread holding friendship together. (untitled). Life is but a single drop of water in the ocean of eternity. (from "Values"). Truth is one's reward for truth. (untitled).