FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection

Prairie Vagabonds

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Herald of Spring

Winter will cease weaving on the prairies.

bluebonnets, flowers, spring, winter, seasons, snow, Texas

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Locust Time in Texas

Oh, it's locust-blossom time upon the prairie.

seasons

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Meadow Lark Hill

Meadow Lark Hill, where my loved ones lie.

death, burial, grave, cemetery

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Gus Ford's Patio

Dame Nature, careless housewife, in spring cleaning.

flowers, spring, color

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Laura Vernon Hamner

The Garden Nun

When June returns, the hollyhock nun.

flowers, religion

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Lights from a Hotel Window

Night-gray reaches of a distant suburb are marked by softened.

night, flowers, blooming, city

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Fugitive

Shielded by a billboard.

tree, city

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Stalwart Against the Sky

Men who gather waste wood mark its growing death with proprietary eye.

tree, service, aging, old age, nature

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Prairie Wind

The wind is a sky-writer.

sky, clouds, water, tumbleweed, dust, windmill

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Home Again

But yesterday the long look from the mountain top.

plains, home, prairie, land

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Prairie Hunger

For those who love the forest, trees hold tender, shielding arms.

prairie, space, forest, trees, plains, land,

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Fickle Lover

A soft night wind glides across the high plains.

wind, flowers, scent, odor, fragrance, perfume

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Autumn Finance

Today I went forth as a miner.

memories, willow, nature

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Laura Vernon Hamner

November on the Prairie

November is a crone.

seasons, autumn, winter

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Where is The Wind?

Wind stripped the fields of their soil.

dust, dust bowl, farm, dry, lack of water, air, clouds

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Prairie Autumn

Autumn weaves a coverlet for the earth.

leaves, flowers, seasons, nature

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Prairie Rose

A lone, flaming rose.

character

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Prohibition in the Eighties

John Hollicott was a drinkin' man.

character, drink, alcohol, boss

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Her Needle an' Her Man

Em allus led a narrow life, folks said.

sewing, love, love lost, husband, wife, character

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Cowman's Code

No, I won't burn that maverick, Jim; I'll wait until the big brandin'.

honesty, cowboy code, honest, branding, brand

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Prairie Born

Night has no terrors for the prairie-born.

prairie, plains, fear, comfort, content

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Vision

Sam Wyatt sat on the top of his dugout.

character, dreams, future, poverty

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Laura Vernon Hamner

What the Snowflakes Held

This had been a hard winter.

snow, winter, seasons, cold, hope, winter wheat

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Laura Vernon Hamner

My Ruts

Before me two lines converged until they met.

life, paths, path, journey, choices, freedom, confinement, aging

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Laura Vernon Hamner

Prairie Pattern

The prairie pattern made no plan.

plains, Indians, buffalo, paths, progress, change