FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Robert L. Laumeyer
Happy Birthday, Wife
Ah, love of my life, this I have left to say, you have been a wonderful wife. I hope you have a wonderful day. Every trip around the sun, we pick up another stone. When we have enough we got to start another home.
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Love
We love with the heart. It stands above though. Favors you may buy. Love cannot be bought. To make love, we're told should be a learned art. But true love, my friend, must come from the heart.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
A Poet's Question
He plays hard at bridge then creates a poem. He goes to his club and polishes a stone. He draws strength from friends and what he owns. Questions religion, believes in his poems.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
Man's Excuses
If he doesn't want to, he will not find time to do the "fixer ups" or to write a rhyme. A man's excuses are very complex one he doesn't use is there's not time for sex.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
Ghost Town
This is my woeful story. I am a forgotten town. Where once I had proud building now they are tumbled down. Lusty men roamed my streets, thirsty from a hard day's toil. They crowded into my bars, spent the riches from my soil.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
Epilogue
Once so proud, so rich, so free, now men have no use for me. Use- abuse-toy- destroy.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
Romance
Gull's wing in an azure sky, white sands in a desert part, golden twinklers in a sky that otherwise would be dark. The romance sould of man reveals the best of his dreams. He will nuture the romance to find out what his life means.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
Epilogue
A life without romance is a poem without rhyme. We know something's missing until our love we find.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
Dentistry
"Your teeth are very bad", The bright young dentist said. "I must pull many out or do 'canals' instead." "The root canals, of course, will cost a good deal more, but without your natural teeth chewing will be a chore."
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Robert L. Laumeyer
Commercial Break
When from the study of Shakespear you find you need a little rest, just read The Song of The Hunter, relax from intellectual quest. The best part about "The Hunter" is that once you have it read
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Robert L. Laumeyer
The Hunter's Montana
Striking fish, a rushing river, the clear call of the waterfalls, he feels again, he hears again, that's the Montana he recalls. He sees the Northeast's endless fields, The southeast's blowing seas of grass
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Robert L. Laumeyer
The Hunter's Mark
Oh, yes, he made his mark. He clawed high the bark of the literary tree. Now hidden by its branches abides his poetry.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
The Hunter Explains
I wrote a book of poetry and now I will try to explain why the book, "The Song of the Hunter", is not about shooting and game. It is about a hunt for truth. It was the grandest hunt of all, for I began it in my youth
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Robert L. Laumeyer
A Hunter's Wish
I'm sending you a hunter's wish. I pray all your shots go true. May the thrill of the hunt remain with you in the everything you do. May the mountains not be too steep, the rocks too slippery with frost.
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Epilogue
All my shooting hunts are over. I no longer have the need or health. Still I shall hunt for that trophy that's satisfying to myself.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
A Dreamer's Montana
Oh, if what you say in May means nothing at all in the fall, stay out of Montana I pray, we don't need your kind at all. Montana wants honest ones whose words "you can take to the bank". If you are false, we don't need you. Liars and low- life's we don't rank.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
A Pitfall of Democracy
A thought about democracy that gives my soul a chill is he who will not run for office will be governed by those who will.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
Americans Beware
Beware the counterfeit patriots and the drastic methods they may use. They will punish some indiscretions and important freedoms you may lose. Under the threat of communism we created "Old tail gunner Joe". Now with a special prosecutor
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Robert L. Laumeyer
The Starr Report
The nation's parents were shocked. The teenagers felt betrayed. Teenagers thought only they knew what the Starr Report displayed. The parents wanted parts deleted the far right held they had won and had the right to publish all under amendment number one.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
The Tale Of '98
First the fire of lust, then the ice of hate had all by engulfed the chief of state. A dark cloud had settled over the city that was the hope of the planet. The clouds of hate had powers unique to turn minds and hearts to granite.
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Epilogue
Hate had destroyed. Hate could not restore. The hated had been hurt,but the haters hurt more. No party or country can ever be great when their agenda is but to peddle hate.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
A Tribute To Old Love
It was 49 years ago today we stood to hear you profess your love. You promised to cherish each other until one of you was called above. You two were life, love, youth, and laughter. To you the world was new and bright.
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The Best Man Prays
Oh God of the universe, I pray that you let them love again today as they did on that beautiful day 49 years and a world away.
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The Sacrifice
If we make fun of another we sometimes must pay the price. And even if we never do it still is not very nice.
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Robert L. Laumeyer
The Old Spencer Table
I sand and scrape, then sand some more, restore the grandeur it had before. I wonder who at thistable fed and what wise or foolish things were said. What moments there were of pride and shame now covered by old varnish and stain.