FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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The First Twenty Five Years: Songs and Stories

Dave Stamey

FOLK COLL 11 S-76

246

Dave Stamey

Interlude: A Wedding in Lavina

John says, "It was an easy decision for me. I looked around and figured the best use of my skills was to be here, on this ranch, following a bunch of sheep around."

wedding, sheep, ranch

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

David Kelley

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

A seed falls, is buffeted, traveling great distances on life's wind, One of many in the unending plain, nurturing, ten-fold Godsend.

endurance, seed, flower

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Darin Brookman

Gentile Knights

Buck Ramsey was a cowboy, musician, poet and historian. He had a definite opinion on most subjects and a gentle nature that made you want to hear them. In the ranks of cowboy poets and singers, he was our leader and our conscience.

cowboy, eulogy, memory

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Tub and Georgeane

Untitled Letter 1

Dear Bette, We hope you'll enjoy the Christmas season; and I'm sure you'll be thinking of that last, quiet day, one you spent with Buck.

christmas, letter, memory

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Tub Burnet

Buck's River

It's a land so free it makes a man feel like a getaway horse, bursting, flying into the broad whip of boundless wind and drowning happily in a sky eight times the size of most.

prairie, nature, time

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

John C. Dofflemyer

Untitled Letter 2

I am sure by this time you have come to know a portion of the realm of Buck's influence and the wide-felt respect which he was afforded. Many, most certainly myself, hesitate to burden either of you with the tiresome chore of reading another letter, but in light of the enclosure from my friend, Bill Yeates,

memory, national park, eulogy

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Frank Waters

Mountain Dialogues

I was sorry to learn of your friend Buck Ramsey's passing. Like you said, I am sure his spirit will be in Elko with his peers. I re-read his poems in Widmark's book, Buck's pictures, and biography.

mountain, memory, essay

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Art Glaser

Knowing Wyoming

Few men get to pick the way they leave or find earth waiting so free of soul -- breaking & twisting like a wet-backed pony out from under a mortal saddle.

cowboy, pony, dream

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

John C. Dofflemyer

April Bullfrogs

Bullfrogs saw logs at dawn, rattle cattails in fractured night dreams, in tight-eyed yawns they are every snoring father come & gone, every anxious moment put to rest, discarded in tiny piles like clothes at the mossy bank

frog, heaven, music

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Virginia Bennett

Home... again

When the echo of a thousand thunders rolls across the barren plain, and I'm called beyond the silver-dusted peaks, As lightning strikes from east to west in one brilliant, unbroken chain, I will answer to One whose shadow speaks.

home, storm, sky, nature

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Virginia Bennett

Grief

Folks tell you it just takes time And that all wounds will eventually heal. As if a clock were a miracle salve That could numb anything that you feel.

grief, mourning, loneliness

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Virginia Bennett

Dad Was Like A Colt

Dad was like a colt to me His spirit fought to be let free.

father, colt, energy

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

J. B.

Requiem For A Friend

For twenty some odd years, Buck lived awash in a sea of alcohol, rudderless, driftin in all directions, seemingly wastin time and self.

eulogy, requiem, memory

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Linda Hussa

The Weir

Tonight I open the ditch through the calf lot. Ice breaks into puzzle pieces.

calves, winter, plains

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Unknown

Buck Ramsey

There was a time when he'd be riding Before the sunrise, before the dawn; To greet the birds, with knowing tiding, Both horseback king; and day-slave pawn.

death, riding, song

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Mary Dalton Crump

Elegy To Buck Ramsey

Though hidden pain could blur his eyes, they still were bright as western skies.

memory, life, elegy

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Bob

And As We Walked Back In The Morning

Dear Buckaroo, how've you been keepin'? It ain't the same now that you're gone; There's been a river's worth of weepin', Though we all know you've just moved on.

cowboy, alchohol, house

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Shirley Gordon Jackson

Ode To Buck Ramsey

After Rolling Uphill From Texas, Buck Ramsey has danced his last Christmas Waltz, said farewell to the Maid of Argenta rode through the Red River Valley, and had his last Border Affair.

memory, sing, poetry

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Shirley Gordon Jackson

On Hearing Buck Ramsey Singing "Rolling Uphill From Texas"

Be still, you wind! Roam no more free, your cattle! Howl, coyote, howl! And let your cry Be heard in shivers of moon, In shivers of spine.

plains, nature, death

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Phil Martin

"And In The Mornings I Was Riding" A Eulogy For Buck

The thing I hate most about growing old is losing friends. Maybe I shouldn't blame it on age because I've been losing friends for a long time now.

death, memory, article

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Pat Langwell Weaver

Fields of Forever

Perhaps life on this earth is To learn certain lessons in love And when we have completed them We graduate to Heaven above.

field, eternity, death

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Pat Langwell Weaver

Remember Him Well

We were fortunate to share with this one A portion of life's time and space. Then, his life was done And he was taken from this place.

remember, life, sadness

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Badger Clark

A Cowboy's Prayer

Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow. I love creation better as it stood That day You finished it so long ago And looked upon Your work and called it good.

prayer, church, help

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Peggy Malone

He Won His Race

Today I Heard the News, The Passing of a Friend.

race, memory, death

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Jon Messenger

Unnamed

Into the sunset he's ridden off, Into that vast domain, The man who blazed the trail for us, Out through the breaks of his solemn plain.

sunset, death, horseback