FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Roy Dee

Rich or Poor Big or Little This Guy was Everyone's Friend

Everyone's idea of what a good, honest person is varies somewhat, from person to person, state to state, nation to nation.

essay, memory, friendship

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Jenny Joseph

Unnamed

When I am an old lady I shall wear purple With a red hat, which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.

age, fashion, crazy

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Buck Ramsey

Buck's Scribbles

Not a soul here on earth knows our creation as I lie here alone tonight, fat moon?

creation, space, earth

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Laura

Unnamed letter

Dear Mrs. Rammsy I'm so sorry that your hosbon past away.

letter, teachers, child

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Kylie Dunn

Unnamed

You give me a song In the midst of the night. For I trust You only In this hour of fright.

song, psalm, prayer

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Kylie Dunn

Unnamed

The details of my life I commit into Thy Hand, From beginning to end The details You understand.

song, psalm, prayer

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Paul Zarzyski

Putting the Rodeo Try into Cowboy Poetry

Let's begin with the wildest landscape, space inhabited by far more of them than our own kind and, yes, we are talking other hearts, other stars.

poetry, love, life

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Joel Nelson

Rhymesman/ Reinsman (Buck Ramsey)

And though there came a time when he no longer could saddle with crew on still frosty mornings there also came a time when he could ride with abandon

rhyme, wilderness, cowboy

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Molly Ivins

He's a Nguyen(er)

AUSTIN - New Texans and old Texans. Naturally all good Texans spent part of New Year's Day rooting for the Aggies, who played quite a game.

vietnam, conflict, texas

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

Various

Featured at the Bar-D Ranch

We learned by look and feel, not studies - Unless it was the moves of pards Ahouseback, eloquent as bards. It was a spark, and we would fan it While riding favored by good winds With favored ancients, proper ends. The owners merely mined the granite; We were sculptors of the herd. Yes, ours the poetry; theirs the word.

magazine, poetry, profile

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

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Buck Ramsey

Tendrils

Shy and Tuffy, Fred and Tybo Nursed the wounds that scarred his soul Anchors set against the riptide of despair Storms of anger and frustration Surged around his battered hulk Tendrils formed in friendships furnace Held him there.

dream, boat, storm

Buck Ramsey, Texas Spirit

David Kelley

FOLK COLL 11 R-47

154

Buck Ramsey

Remembering Buck

Retrofitted by a culture Scorned in pompous lecture halls Sails and rudder held a course with fresh intent Seas of "life" are seldom tranquil Voyages often come to grief Trouble shared restores a compass sorely tent

college, life, trial

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

A Primary Rejection

Late in winter my old neighbor Stood stooped and still among his elms, Awaiting, staining for, signs of spring.

winter, livestock, flower

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

No Extra Space

I wallowed, love, in that thick damp brush, Sang, strummed, praised, pleaded, tried tricks, Yet plainly rankled more than thrilled you. thinking I was not so good at all that I went again to my normal way and places.

love, plants, prairie

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

And Beg To Remain

Seemest thou the boarder went berserk Lurching akimbo in you perpendicular place there? Seemest he did overbask in the embracing warmth?

crazy, pig, warm

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

And Beg To Remain

Seemest thou the boarder went berserk Lurching akimbo in your perpendicular place there? Seemest he did overbask bask like like a...

final, boarder, pig

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

Anthem: A Hundred Years of Solitude

And in the morning I was riding Out in the breaks of that long plain, And leather creaking in the quieting Would sound with trot and trot again.

drafts, riding, anthem

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

At the Dance

In our light carouse as the evening came Some diva said the evening must change Lest we lose the night, there was not enough.

draft, dance, love

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

Dog Poem

My daughter's darling little dogs Have found a lair of baby rabbits. They scratch the door to get out often And will not eat what's set for them.

dog, daughter, rabbits

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

Berkley And The Moon, Backwards

When the thing beaming, bald, born fullgrown Protruded from out of the fir crotching Between the peaks raised like knees in the east, It smiled at the west where it was going And in the while before its time was spent Smiled back at the east where it had been.

drafts, moon, magic

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

By the Spring By the River

The fall down Scanty on the scattered trees Lighted in their color Our way to the endline camp. No one could know, I did not and you did not, What on earth we had in store there.

river, music, leaves

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

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

plains, trees, grass

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

Conversation

We've never owned a blade of grass (And, really, nor have you), Nor held the title to a cow, But we've herded quite a few.

grass, money, cowboy

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

Belonging

I'll ride these westward ridges slow And rein this hasty horse back to He'll waith for home, though unimpressed The sun is setting in the west.

cowboy, riding, ranch

Buck Ramsey's Poetry Inventory

Buck Ramsey

FOLK COLL 11 R-48

Buck Ramsey

Christmas At The Star Cross

Winter is here and the old year is passing, The sun in its circle winds far in the South, It's time to bring cheer to a cold snowbound cowcamp, Christmas time of the year for the house.

christmas, ranch, baby