FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Waddie Mitchell

What Will I Tell Him?

What will I tell him, you ask me, when my son's trying to make up his mind to ride for a living like I have or explore what the world has to find.

heart, courage, nature, joy

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

John Dofflemyer

Waiting for Daylight

No alarm clock here, we take turns waking up on the hour before the first branding of the year, lists of implements, food and vaccines checked in

asphalt, sun, neighbors, horses

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Banjo Paterson

With the Cattle

The drought is down on field and flock, the river bed is dry; And we must shift the starving stock before the cattle die. We muster up with weary hearts at breaking of the day,

faith, twilight, love, prey, wind, mountain

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

William Henry 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;

journey, gay, promise, tears

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Jim Sagel

Talking Horses

Uncle Steven rolls his own as we sit in the last sun under skeeletal alamos and talk horses how his bitch of a mare throws everyone except him

horse races, wins, Indians, San Juan

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

S. Omar Barker

A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer

I ain't much good at prayin' , and you may not know me, lord- I ain't much seen in churches where they preach Thy Holy Word, but you may have observed me out here on the lonely plains,

miracle, freedom, hearts of men, tears

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Katie Andraski

Lunging a Filly

As I swiveled behind my coming yearling I watched how she eased around me like water over cobbles. She flowed away from me like I was a hill.

ducked, salmmed, kicks, joy

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Ted Kooser

A Winte Morning

A farmhouse window far back from the highway speaks to the darkness in a small, sure voice. Against his stillness, only a kettle's whisper,

small, blue, flame, ring

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Linda Hussa

Sheepherder

Basco boy, you left your sheep bedded walked the many ridges through a dark where lightning warned you back to stand outside the homesteader cabin

rain, teacher, dance, dogs

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Joan Shaddox Isom

Companions

When Old Age raps on my window and beckons with bony finger, I'll not follow her behind closed shutters to measure out my life with nose drops

dignity, popsicles, song, dusk, cry

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Buckeye Blake

Between Brandings

Ibuprofen and Early Times, a frozen slab of home-cured bacon wrapped in a clean white T-shirt tucked in the hollow of your back dulls the knife

cortisone, surgery, lumbar

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Carolyn Dufurrena

Bog Hot Meadow/First Pass

Silence cocoons the morning stretches the horizon snow on ridges blue with distance coiling ribbon of dust across the valley:

sky, earth, salt grass, trot, gates

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Bruce Kiskaddon

The Time to Decide

Did you ever stand on the ledges, on the brink of the great plateau and look from their jagged edges on the country that lay below?

patient, vision, pity

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Carolyn Dufurrena

Fixing the Spring

High in a granite notch an avalanche of wild roses hides the springbox. I balance on sharp boulders poling up between hummocks in the bog,

water, chuffing, icy, livestock, antelope, deer

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Robert Frost

To the Thawing Wind

Come with rain, O lound Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; Make the settled snowbank steam;

melt ice, window, crucifix

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

William Henry Ogilvie

The Men of Open Spaces

These are the men with the sun-tanned faces and the kneen far-sighted eyes- the men of the open spaces, and the land where the mirage lies.

fire, drought, mate, throne, pride

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Henry Lawson

Down the River

I've done with joys and misery an' why should I repine? There's no one knows the past but me an' that ol' dog o' mine. We camp an' walk, an' camp an' walk,

smoke, dog, sunset, johnny-cake

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Luci Tapahonso

All I Want

All I want is the bread to turn out like hers just once brown crust soft, airy insides rich and round that is all.

flour, bowl, dough, windy

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

J.B. Allen

Grist

There's a place back in them hills that's sorta hid and hard to find where a spring of crystal water leaves the rock and starts to wind

greed, justice, green, illness

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Buck Ramsey

The Slipper Waltz

The Meeting; Kid Tybo Tremain of the old Star Cross outfit had yet his last measure to grow, but he rode like a tick on brush country cow dog

dream, angle, silly, felon

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Buck Ramsey

Child of the Plains

I write from trees and mountain rocks; There aren't too many on your plain; I think of you and think of grass that covers place and place again

star, trees, sight, kind

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Luci Tapahonso

Blue Horses Rush In

Before the birth, she moved and pushed inside her mother. Her heart pounded quickly and we recognized the sound of horses running: the thundering of hooves on the desert floor.

baby, moonlight, Idaho, Montana, Chamisa Bah Edmo

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Savanna Scout Cox

Pack Mule

I'm a strong girl I can throw bags of salt over one shoulder I can pick up propane bottles and baby calves I pushed the door open like Atlas

emotion, stumble, scar, stubborn, resilient

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Luci Tapahonso

Sheepherder Blues

"Went to NCC for a year," she said, "was alright. There was some drinking, fights. I just kept low. It was alright"

surprise, Gallup, Oklahoma City, bus

Reflections of the West: Cowboy painters and poets

C.J. Hadley

FC 11 H-59

Larry McWhorter

Waitin' on the Drive

It's four o'clock when the cook's bell calls, Raisin' cowboys up from their dream. I pull on my boots and watch the red dust come puffin' up through the worn seams.

wagon, fog, caprock, drive