FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

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Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Upland Plover

Through long, long months of winter's reign I wait.

seasons, spring, happiness, memories, fall, winter, summer

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Ancient Need

An ancient man, moved by some ancient greed.

fire, invention, stone carvings, wheel, eternal, modern man, necessities

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Pasque Flower

True pioneer, you love the unturned sod.

landscape, love for the land, hope, zephyrs, plains, prairie, hope, winter, spring

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Clell

Clell, This spring, after my heart's winter.

hyacinths, sadness, death

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Death

Sometimes we face a thing so grand.

unspoken words, silence

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Peace

A lake at rest beneath a silent moon.

quietude, night, undisturbed

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Late October Sunset

Before me all the colors of the flowers.

beauty, lowers, solitude, autumn, summer

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

The Finish

When the final page is written in the hist'ry of the West.

cowboys, Indians, settling the land, Keep-Off signs, golf, resignation, roads, bill-boards, crowdedness

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

An Old House

An old house stands by the roadside.

deteriorating, swallows

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

A Sunset

The sun, a tired traveler, drops its head.

sun, colors, light, sky, silence, coyote, harmony, contentedness

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

A Friend

I shall not fear the desert's reach.

fearlessness, security, strength

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Beyond The Stars

Above these sleeping plains tonight.

sky, moon, God, night

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Winter

I love winter so.

cold, warmth, leisure, snow

Ever and Always I Shall Love the Land

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Clell Goebel Gannon

Lines to an Arikara Skull

I speak to you, but empty eyes.

ancient past, silence, woman's soul, curiosity, unanswered questions, childhood, love, sin, pleasure, motherhood

Orejana Bull for Cowboys Only

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Gail I. Gardner

The Sierry Petes

Away up high in the Sierry Petes.

Sandy Bob, Buster Jig, tying knots, devil's tail

Orejana Bull for Cowboys Only

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Gail I. Gardner

Cowboy Love Song

See the sun a-coming out.

nature, beauty, warmth, affection

Orejana Bull for Cowboys Only

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Gail I. Gardner

The Moonshine Steer

Two cowboys left their camp one day.

still, moon shiner, gasoline, coal-oil can, alcohol, tilt the jug, drunk, drunken steer

Poems About the West

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Frank Goodwyn

Poems About the West

I know who it is.

alcoholic pals, booze, shame, burden, destruction, alcohol

Poems About the West

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Frank Goodwyn

Poems About the West

She began it on the day.

son, wife, age, loss, loneliness

Poems About the West

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Frank Goodwyn

Washed Dishes

The dishes are washed, the table dusted.

waiting, longing, disappointment

Poems About the West

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Frank Goodwyn

Yellow Gold

Yellow gold, Yellow gold.

search, panning the dirt, sacrifice, hooked, Barker's Peak, reward, luck, nature, material wealth

Poems About the West

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Frank Goodwyn

Twenty-Point Buck

His spread of antlers strikes the frozen branches.

grace, hunter, ice, cold, crystals

Poems About the West

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Frank Goodwyn

Mike's Fingers Lake

Yes, it's a mighty pretty lake to have.

Mike Sanders, lasso, California, Texans, Mexican baton, roping, dally welter, Darle vuelta, accident, Mike's Fingers Lake

Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs

FC 11 G-06

Lysius Gough

Where Are They?

Fifty years and two to-day.

Gunter and Munsons Grayson, T-Anchor, Palo Duro, Great Divide, Jim Roff, Lee Boys, outlaw band, Texas, Fort Reno

Spur Jingles and Saddle Songs

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Lysius Gough

No Place Like Home

Come all you young boys who long the west to see.

roaming, family, Christian parents, restlessness, travel, longing for home, homesick, wanderlust