FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
48
Virginia Bennett
Night Watch
When the full moon rises at Twin Springs and the night wind begins to howl. The coyotes tremble in fear of something both both friendly and foul. For something (or someone) lurks in the shadows
football, gloom, poker, green eye, haunted, fun
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
50
Virginia Bennett
Beneath Her Windowsill
In a one-room, bark-on cabin with stove wood stacked outside the door, a Coleman lamp swung from a beam in that camp perched on a hill. At a table, she sat reading.
woodstove, tortured, scream, conceive
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
52
Virginia Bennett
For Grampa
So, now it's come down to this: You live on in a picture on the wall. Tho' you died maybe 30 years ago, it doesn't seem that long at all. Not so long ago that my dad and I
photograph, dry stone wall, trainer, share, impress
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
54
Virginia Bennett
The Belle Of Blue Flower Park
As I sit inside my warm house and the embers in the stove slowly die and the wind blows the snow against the window panes, the ghost of Sadie Connor glides by.
skiing, restaurants, dress, neighbors, God, critters
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
56
Virginia Bennett
Storms On The Divide
I saddled up the balck Morgan Mare, Headed up through the timber toward Cottonwood Crik. She danced from the hint of a storm in the air but i figgered we'd get the job done quick and soon we'd be home,
homestead, sick, God, hell, lamp
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
58
Virginia Bennett
The Fore-Telling
They stood there on old Baldy, each from a different way of life. He was a cop from St. Louis and she was a rancher's wife. As they scanned the nearby woods for game,
soul, dead, mountains
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
61
Virginia Bennett
Ma and Pa Eugene
They live not far from here, just a couple miles down the road. And they're the closest thing to folks that I have evern knowed. They got a little log cabin, and an outdoor latrine.
heaven, rich, horny-toad, Belgian team, queen
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
62
Virginia Bennett
I Wish I Could Go
The twisted, weathered, cedar posts, connected by rails of lodgepole pine formed a corral that played unwilling host to a mustang found near the Utah line. It was in the summer of eighty-eight.
tank, trailer, mouse, prison, whispered
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
64
Virginia Bennett
The Hazards Of Braggin
"I always have a walkin' horse," the cowboy said with pride. "The one that's walkin' fastest is the only one I'll ride. "And if I'm workin' with a colt
teach, train, school, failed
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
65
Virginia Bennett
Thoughts From Behind The Window Pane
I stand here at the windwo, lookin' beyond the kitchen garden to the shed. Today's dinner is one the stove, cookin' 'cause the crew will be expectin' to be fed. I have to admit I'm gettin' older.
die, pride, gold, pair, young, snorty horse
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
69
Virginia Bennett
Just A Thought
You read about them daily, those heroes of our time. The new vaccines, the theories, just watch your profits climb. All the new technology, cell grazing, A.I. and all. Embryo transplants,
EPD, trophies, gain, prais, greet, sunrise
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
70
Virginia Bennett
Prodigal Son
On their creaking, A-Fork saddles, they had left the cattle in the shimmering grass of summer range. They'd trailed behind 'em all day, Dusty Jim was on his bay, and Jigger rode a roan that he called "Mange".
coyote, pry, The sweet by and by, beers, hell, fire, wild oats
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
72
Virginia Bennett
Two Roads
I was out ridin' one late afternoon. It was about the twenty-eight day of June. Explorin' new trails; on ridges and vales, through aspen alive with lupine in bloom. This was a new trail to my horse and I,
arrow, assailed, ignored, grade
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
73
Virginia Bennett
Cowboy Creation
In the beginning, God created light, but needed a place for it toshine so he put together the heavens, Some clouds that looked just fine. He spoke the word and it was done -
night-rider, lodgepole, fickle, breeze, bible
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
74
Virginia Bennett
The Sermon On The Mount
I sit here on my steadfast horse while the moon begins it's nightly course. I'm ridin' night-herd, so I guess there's time to reflect upon this life of mine. My right leg is crooked over the saddle horn
wagon, God, spring, grant
Legacy Of The Land
FC 11 B-72
75
Virginia Bennett
The Rain
It'd been a long, dry summer, come to think of it, so was the spring. No rain for more days than I could number and only faith made me plant anything. The prairie, parchment crisp and thirsty,
tease, Jesus, sky, wet dirt
Where Shadows Are Born
FC 11 B-73
1
Henry Real Bird
Opening
After sittin' between the risin' moon and the settin' sun among the many colors of the pink and the blues from a little north, left of the sun risin'
imaginary, spirit, necklace, grandstands, flame
Where Shadows Are Born
FC 11 B-73
4
Henry Real Bird
A Cowboy
Thoughts & feelings from the shadow of a rainbow in the wind what's good, there's alot, they say usin' yesterday in today wantin' to join, a lot more good days in tomorrow for winters,
viking,, medicine, crescent moon, sage, rampage
Where Shadows Are Born
FC 11 B-73
9
Henry Real Bird
The Horse
Days that are good, thoughts that are good, talk that is good we want to use to give people hearts that are good, we want to use the four winds that are good
fake control, horse, fire, left behind, wolf, gift,
Where Shadows Are Born
FC 11 B-73
14
Henry Real Bird
Tall That's Light
Goin' on fresh snow, snows been fallin' several days. The ground, all is white, sagebrush tops stickin' out of snow, ridin' throught snow, it's quiet, river where it goes
pine trees, sun, winter day, singing
Where Shadows Are Born
FC 11 B-73
15
Henry Real Bird
Rodeo
For once there was a man who thought he could ride the code of the west, he could abide cowboy etiquette knew best his hat he could fan aboard a high flyin' bronc
courage, rodeo, herd, competition, lawyers
Where Shadows Are Born
FC 11 B-73
16
Henry Real Bird
Lone Horse, After Halo Moon
A feeling when the fall green grass is under the snow that is first out in the hills it should've last as ice crystals burst i've got the chills.
saddle, strand, alone, slack, astraddle
Where Shadows Are Born
FC 11 B-73
17
Henry Real Bird
The Wolf Teeth Mountain Rawhider
What can I say I just stood in the grandstands to see my bronc turned out into the arena tell me about it that a dream can get lost. I know that but I just keep hangin' on to fantasy because this is what got me here
wish, glare, moon, reflection, stars
Where Shadows Are Born
FC 11 B-73
19
Henry Real Bird
Riding My Dream
Say you'd like to know why it is, that I ride broncs started out a long time ago as I was lin' on my bunk I dreamt I was a bronc rider born and raised to ride the broncs
flat, care, glance, dream
Where Shadows Are Born
FC 11 B-73
20
Henry Real Bird
The Dreamer
he come walkin' over, bout an hour before the show hat tipped a litle over, bet he's seen a lot of snow how you doin', where you been what'd you draw or do you know
mind, coffee, velvet, horn