FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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FOLK COLL 11 R-48

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Comes A Caller (Being Dunder's first arrival at the Star Cross.)

The darkening dusk comes on the place. The clear, still air will carry The creature sounds of summer night that whisper from the prairie.

rider, cowboy, camp

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Cowboy Went Acourtin'

This bunkhouse talk of cowboy romance Left other whirls in second place: Poor Dobbin Brown sat all in silence When Yucca Spear strung out the ways Old Dobbin choused the Widow Horton, A proper lady he went courtin'.

cowboy, romance, dance

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Dear Tara McCarty:

I got your letter in the mail The last day of November. If I eve got a better one I dang sure don't remember.

letter, poem, memories

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FOLK COLL 11 R-48

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Dog Poem

My daughter's darling little dogs Have found a lair of baby rabbits.

dog, daughter, rabbits

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FOLK COLL 11 R-48

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Dunder Defining (Being a one-sided conversation with the Kid about his daddy.)

"Yeah, he'd be called a 'daisy hand' If this was bygone days Before the meaning changed their names And cowboys changed their ways.

dad, ranch, cowboy

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Names And Callings (Being old Dunder getting something else off his chest.)

"They're always atellin' us who is a cowboy. It's always somebody who ain't. They put our good name on the damnedest of fellers -- it passes without a complaint.

cowboy, stereotype, anger

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107

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Elegy by a Prairie Grave

funeral, sun, prairie

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111

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Garcia's Promise

To mountains he comes wounded And at war circumstance, In search of higher footing where a man-at-arms can stand. his foe is like a shadow That is always at his heels, And as he climbs and looks back, all he sees is burning fields.

mountains, climber, battle

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Hat In Hand, Approaching The Dieties

Sunning sunning inner prisms in the prison of my eyes Pictures pink pictures purple Sun across the slight cloud skies

sun, farm, life

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119

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Mavis Makes A Deal?

Mavis McCarley was known as a woman with talents you'd look for when you had a need Not only did Mavis McCarley have talents, but the disposition for doing the deed.

waiter, bar, challenge

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123

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Nice Man

The milkman walks into the silken threads Of a phrase of mine Somewhere midway.

milk, kindness, chat

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127

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One Seraphic Ride

As dark was spreading on the air Old Dunder came in grinning Like some lit candled pumpkin face, And well before they cleaned their plates He loosed a yarn he didn't care Would keep them up unspinning.

ride, horses, angel

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Poem For A Boy

Mind to be the boy That would one day be the man. Should you set aside your joy For some duty's plan?

boy, advice, plan