FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

241

Paul Thomas Lillard

Scorpions

Scorpions have dangerous tails, both the females and the males.

scorpions, tails, stinger

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

241

Paul Thomas Lillard

Old Blackheart

old Blackheart the pirate had only one leg. The other was missing below the knee and ended in a peg.

pirate, peg leg, termites

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

242

Paul Thomas Lillard

Payback

Marie Antoinette made a mistake when she said "Let them eat cake."

marie antoinette, joke, cake

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

243

Paul Thomas Lillard

Service Days

Being on point can always be a danger to your anatomy.

infantry, point, danger

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

243

Paul Thomas Lillard

Toast

Be of good heart be of good cheer as we begin this new year. Food on the table friends to hold dear and may you never run out of beer.

new year, toast, beer

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

244

Paul Thomas Lillard

Short Rounds III

When now I write of short rounds, it means the poems aren't long, but if you think that's all it means, you'd be thinking wrong.

artillery, friendly fire

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

245

Paul Thomas Lillard

Did You Know?

Bishops built cathedrals to speak the Word of God, but when I read of that, I think it very odd.

bishop, cathedral, jesus

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

245

Paul Thomas Lillard

Farmin'

Tick tock tick tock three A.M. says the clock.

farm, morning, chores

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

247

Paul Thomas Lillard

Short Round

It's a well-known fact, heed it well: when you screw up, paybacks are hell.

mistake, karma

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

247

Paul Thomas Lillard

Short Round II

In the land of Panama a canal we used to own, but old Carter gave it away - another asset blown.

canal, panama, purchase

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

247

Paul Thomas Lillard

Roller Skates

Little Girls on roller skates swiftly passing by, arms a-swinging laughter ringing, angels on the fly.

skates, girls, scrape

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

248

Paul Thomas Lillard

Youth and Age

When I was young and in my prime, I used to dress up all the time.

youth, dress up, looks

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

249

Paul Thomas Lillard

Comics

Whatever happened to Hans und Fritz and to Smilin' Jack to Flash and Ming Mutt and Jeff?

comics, reading, classics

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

249

Paul Thomas Lillard

Class

There was a mobster who went to the chair and tho' a killer he showed some flair,

mobster, electric chair, classy

Poems from the Alamo Saloon

FOLK COLL 11 L-45

250

Paul Thomas Lillard

Heaven

I don't know what Heaven is. It's a mystery, but I know what I would like if it were up to me.

heaven, mystery, joy

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

See You at the Barn

See you at the barn is what you give me as you turn left and I turn right along a ribbon of cedar posts and barbed wire stretched tight. Up and down canyhons, across ridges, I make crooked the straight in deference to equine muscle and slick rock.

barnyard, cowboy, real

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Livestock Man

I need to write a new poem about what it is like, as a woman, to cowboy for a living. But all I can come up with is how much I hate it when my toes get cold.

livestock, woman, care, camping

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Mediocrity

Fear and scared needs to be locked in a vault of understanding, like bucking off hard in the rock. For we each are the true Frankenstein, creating our own monsters.

language, mistakes, mediocrity

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Letter to my Father, In Three Parts

Trotting out Into cold wind. Good-looking men, Fresh horses, Rough country. We've had some rain.

fathers, gratitude, experience

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Teach Me To See

Born blind, And didn't even know it. Thought I could see, thought I was, missed not only the minutiae but the broad vistas.

sight, blind, view

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Wild Grapes on an Ordinary Afternoon

Just an ordinary day until you see them, Just an ordinary day until you do. Wild grapes growing high overhead, Amidst the green, they're dusky blue.

grapes, birds, ordinary

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Damn Fine Hands

Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Rex Allen, Monte Montana, Lone Ranger got no shit on their boots, never faced a norther head-on, or had to lead off the ridge with loose rocks sliding down the cliff.

ranch hand, job, farm hand

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Too Much Water

Where's the happy medium between clinging like a cocklebur and flitting away like downy fluff, off into the wind?

woman, party, love, water

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Chindi Song

He served in the Gulf War, A simple man, but smart, With Music as his rhythm And rodeo in his heart.

veteran, navajo, dawn

Livestock Man

FOLK COLL 11 A-22

Amy Hale Auker

Falling in Love

I'm falling in love and it's nothing like the movies. I'm falling in love with hot coffee mornings and cold whiskey evenings and all the long hours in between.

love, attractions, nature