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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RANCH LIFE Matches Found: 387 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 2:00 A. M. CALL, by RODNEY (ROD) NELSON Poem Source Last Line: They'll still be dead in the morning Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life A BORDER AFFAIR, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spanish is the lovin' tongue Last Line: "adios, mi corazon." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Love - Cultural Differences; Love Affairs; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I ride into the mountains on my little broncho Last Line: When thar ain't nobody near him, 'ceptin' god. Subject(s): Conscience; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY AT THE CARNIVAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "yes, o' cose it's interestin' to a feller from the range" Last Line: An' he thinks o' nothin' but his grub an' hoss an' steers Subject(s): Carnivals;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A COWBOY RACE, by JO CULBERTSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: A pattering rush like the rattle of hail Last Line: The gauntlet is flung and the race is begun! Subject(s): Competition; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I could not be so well content Subject(s): Cowboys;man-woman Relationships;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Male-female Relations;southwest;pacific States A COWBOY TOAST, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the passing cowboy, the plowman's pioneer Last Line: With cattle, cattle, cattle, and sage and sand and sun. Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY'S HOPELESS LOVE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard that story ofttimes about that little chap Last Line: An' shun the loco weed o' love when there's an angel round. Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A COWBOY'S LOVE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, the last steer has been branded" Subject(s): Cowboys;love;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A COWBOY'S SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whar y'u from, little stranger, little boy?" Subject(s): Boys;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A COWBOY'S WORRYING LOVE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ust to read in the novel books 'bout fellers that Last Line: An' a-throwin' the breath o' life away bunched up into sighs. Heigh-ho! Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A DANCE AT THE RANCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from every point they gaily come, the bronco's unshod feet" Subject(s): Cowboys;dancing & Dancers;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States A NEVADA COWPUNCHER TO HIS BELOVED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lonesome? Well, I guess so!" Subject(s): Cowboys;nevada;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Loneliness;southwest;pacific States A RANGER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never made parade of tooth or claw Last Line: And he labored with the sinners of the trail. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States ABANDONED RANCH, BIG BEND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three people come where no people belong anymore Last Line: The steady cool mercy of their unreproachful eyes Subject(s): Ranch Life AFTER THE FUNERAL, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: My aunt and I are drinking coffee Last Line: Who've travelled enough distance %to let them Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers ALL THIS WAY FOR THE SHORT RIDE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: After grand entry cavalcade of flags, Last Line: For grabs, a bride's bouquet %pitched blind. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life AMARILLO PEACE RANCH, 1991, by MARY ELLEN MCANALLY Poem Source First Line: Bill sky starts the fire with a feather Last Line: Balanced between her earth dance and her sky dance, %her eyes still a fire Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Ranch Life AMERICAN HERO, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: A reluctant war story Last Line: A long - long %time ago Subject(s): Ranch Life; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMONG SHOOTIN' STARS, by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: Sold bronc saddle %foreclosed cows Last Line: Sweet smell mist, let it take its course %for my heart is two, because of you Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ANCIENT BEAVERSLIDE, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Alone it stood, %all made of wood Last Line: Though broken backed %an ancient beaverslide Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ANTHEM, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: And in the morning I was riding Last Line: Those horsemen will ride all with me %and we'll be good, and we'll be free Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life AT A COWBOY DANCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Git yer little sage hens ready Last Line: Keno! Promenade to seats. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States AT THE BRANDING, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Years ago %women were never allowed Last Line: She leaves the corral %the knife folded in her pocket Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers AT THE GRAVE OF BILLY THE KID, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: I stopped at the grave of billy the kid Last Line: Last night, in sante fe, the bright moon, full %and round as the circle that moves the world Subject(s): Bonney, William ("billy The Kid"); Ranch Life AT THE STOCKMAN BAR, WHERE THE MEN FALL IN LOVE, & THE WOMEN JUST FALL, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: Black velvet shots and water back Last Line: I'll never find my way again Subject(s): Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Women; Women - Writers BADLANDS, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: We want to take visitors to see grass Last Line: Dry crotch in a sea of grass Subject(s): Grass; Ranch Life BAR-Z ON A SUNDAY NIGHT, by PERCIVAL COMBES Poem Text First Line: We ain't no saints on the bar-z ranch Last Line: What ain't no saints, as I said. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States BARN CATS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: It's funny, the things you remember Last Line: Is really better than barn cats %and cow-cured headaches Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BEDROLL, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: There's a hole in the wagonsheet big as my head Last Line: My bed's on the top of the pile Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BEEF EATER, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: I have been eating beef hearts Last Line: As if he were a fly %paced %deliberately %away Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BERRY ME NOT, by JEANE RHODES Poem Source First Line: Chokecherries, chokecherries, purple and round Last Line: The man that I live with is still with the living Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BIRTH OF A NATIVE TEXAN, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: I'm here to say I'm texican from my hat down to my boot Last Line: I'd have to say with no delay, there ain't no place like texas! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BITTERCREEK WOMEN, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Bittercreek has always been Last Line: Instead of half %alone Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BLACK LADY MARE, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: There's a colt that's following my black lady mare Last Line: Well, just when I'm thinking I figured her out %that old biddy kicked me again Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BLACKROCK PASS, by JOHN DOFFLEMEYER Poem Source First Line: A thunderstorm began to form Last Line: And I'll wager these successful men %would like to return as much as I Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BLINDING THE INFIDEL, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: A week after you came home Last Line: Into the fence and darkness Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BLUE FILLY, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: She is just three Last Line: And prepare ourselves for the saddling Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BORN IN THE AFTERNOON, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: Against barbed wire an antelope Last Line: Antelope, too, are born in the afternoon Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BOUNTY HUNTER, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: Here's a black and white snapshot Last Line: Eyes wide with pain and fear Subject(s): Ranch Life BOX DINNER, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: He topped his breakfast sopping bread Last Line: But, all in all, surely by far the best bargain %was sealed when fair donner moved to the star cross Subject(s): Ranch Life BRANDING DAY, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: A reasonable beginning Last Line: Wearing pale blue pyjamas %with the fly wide open Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BRANDS, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Me an' slim was movin' heifers Last Line: I just run out o' air Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BREAKIN' EVEN, by LYN DENAEYER Poem Source First Line: He might sit on the steps of an evenin' Last Line: Till the day his heart breaks even Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The first that we saw of the high-tone tramp Subject(s): Animals;bicycles;competition;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Cycling;southwest;pacific States BUCKING HORSE MOON, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: A kiss for luck, then we'd let 'er buck Last Line: Beneath montana's blue roan %bucking horse moon Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BULLHIDE CHAPS AND MEMORIES, by JIM SHELTON Poem Source First Line: Today I talked to madge Last Line: And we'll give back this piece of leather %and the bullhide chaps you wore Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life BUNCH GRASS, SELS., by ROBERT SUND Poem Source First Line: The ranchers are selling their wheat early this year, not holding over for Last Line: Are they doing? Subject(s): Harvest; Ranch Life BUNCH QUITTER, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: She is a proud half-brahma mama in the middle of a mindless herd Last Line: And far too unreliable %for trust Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life BURROWING OWL, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: How you came to die Last Line: Your death you call your own Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers CATALOGS, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The little house was well supplied Last Line: And find the treasures we had lost Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Last Line: With pollen blowing off the corn, %land that will always ownus, %everywhere it is red Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women - Writers CENTENNIAL QUILTING, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: Her hands shake a little Last Line: Stitching both sides %of the fabric together Subject(s): Quilts; Ranch Life CHRISTMAS WALTZ, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: The winter is here and the old year is passing Last Line: Then all of their slumbers are filled with this song Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life CITY COUSIN, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: In her twentieth summer Last Line: Into the grown-up world Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers CLIFF DWELLERS, by RON CHAPPELL Poem Source First Line: Sly, they hover in the shadows Last Line: Where the eons gather stardust %from a people lost in time Subject(s): Ranch Life COFFEE ROW, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: They gather each morning Last Line: Away from the land Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers COW DOGS, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: The ranchers I knew as a boy Last Line: Dust rising from the baked earth, %night settling on the silent ranch Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ranch Life COW TRADIN' BY THE RIO GRANDE, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Phil statler had a bunch of cows sold to red robb Last Line: But they was dead sons-of-bitches while they was a walkin' Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life COWBOY VERSUS BRONCHO, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haven't got no special likin' fur the toney sorts o' Last Line: An' mistook the proper time to have it out. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States COWBOY WENT A-COURTIN', by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: This bunkhouse talk of cowboy romance Last Line: That's when he heard her last request Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWBOYIN' DAY, by GARY MCMAHAN Poem Source First Line: Morning is just a thin line to the east Last Line: And thanks again, lord, for my day in the saddle %amen Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWBOYS BETWEEN RANCHES, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Mom and dad auctioned their ranch in 1960 Last Line: Their eyes remind me of the wilderness %glowing defiantly in the dark Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWDOGS, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: Now some cowdogs have pedigrees Last Line: If we had a dog that could work cows %we would know what to name him Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life COWPATH, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: I walk slower... %steps more uncertain Last Line: To where the farmhouse stood Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers COYOTE BITCH, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Tonight - %I feel like a coyote bitch Last Line: Who never appear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women; Women - Writers COYOTE'S WILDERNESS LOBBY, by GREG KEELER Poem Source First Line: Dog, pony and coyote Last Line: Behind him down %the capital steps Subject(s): Lobbying And Lobbyists; Ranch Life COYOTES AND WATERMELONS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Some facts are great fun Last Line: How a coyote opened a watermelon Subject(s): Ranch Life CROW, by NEIL MEILI Poem Source First Line: Two boys - and crow - at 50 yards Last Line: Too far from death to understand a kill Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Ranch Life CULLING THE HERD, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: When the new chick flopped Last Line: And bundled him close %and nursed him Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life CUSSIN' WOMAN, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: A cussin' woman's a trial to hear Last Line: Cuz I'm a cussin' woman Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers DEATH OF JUAN CHACON, by FIN BAYLES Poem Source First Line: The eastern sky was growing light Last Line: But they're never gonna get the chance %'cause juan chacon is dead Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life DENVER JIM, by SHERMAN D. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Say, fellers, that ornery thief must be nigh us Last Line: It reversed the decision,— the court was adjourned. Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Mothers & Sons; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States DESERT COYOTE, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: There is sadness among the stones Last Line: Of hot winds. I am not the desert %but its name is no so far from mine Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Ranch Life DIAGNOSES, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Lange's voice drifts Last Line: I try to stop it %but nothing lasts Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers DIANE'S PERSONAL GHOST RANCH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagine riding a ghost-stallion, my Subject(s): Ghosts; O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986); Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Ranch Life DIGGING POTATOES, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: We divided it all, but Last Line: I've barely begun to ask Subject(s): Ranch Life DO NOT ASK, by GREG KEELER Poem Source First Line: Do not ask for whom they moo Last Line: The same earth, by the way, which one %fine day will melt into the sun Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life DRIFTER AND THE HOMEGUARD, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: You say you'd like for me to give a detailed dissertation Last Line: That the homeguard was a drifter 'fore the drifter settled down Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life DRIFTWOOD FEELIN', by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: How much longer Last Line: I'm catchin' a ride %floatin' down love river Subject(s): Ranch Life DRIVING INTO A STORM, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: Last night we burned feed sacks Last Line: The dark %rolling clouds Variant Title(s): First Poem For Georg Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers DROUGHT OF SEVENTY-SEVEN, by JOHN DOFFLEMEYER Poem Source First Line: It was dry in the fall of seventy-six Last Line: But she's never caused me half of the loss %that politicians create with a pen Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life DROUGHT YEAR, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I slept alone in a drought year Last Line: In crumbled soi, %wait for rain Subject(s): Drought; Ranch Life DUMB ANIMALS, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: Ewes that bear full-sized well-formed lambs Last Line: Take a deep breath. Start over Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers EIGHT RABBITS, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Eight rabbits hang skinned in pale spring sun. Old Last Line: Questioning everything, even my rabbits, cold in the sunshine Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers EPITAPH, by MARGOT LIBERTY Poem Source First Line: She never shook the stars from their appointed courses Last Line: And she rode good horses Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers ESCAPE, by LISA QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Each afternoon, the sun catches her eye and leads her Last Line: She looks at him with a used up sadness in her eyes, then %smiles, knowing tomorrow the sun will hol Subject(s): Ranch Life EVENING, FOUR MILE, by MARGOT LIBERTY Poem Source First Line: Incredible, the softness of this air Last Line: Through all the lovely evening and the dark Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers F.M. 168, BUFFALO LAKE TO NAZARETH, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: This road lay like an invitation, south Last Line: Knew one another well in that life %where journey and destination were the same Subject(s): Ranch Life; Roads FARMERS STILL, by ANNE SLADE Poem Source First Line: At the kitchen table Last Line: Like they were still here Subject(s): Ranch Life FEAR, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Scared %is running as fast as you can Last Line: Or the terror %of waiting %for the verdict Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FINDING, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Love, my love, you are not gone from me Last Line: I just see you in the face of all the land Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FIRST JOB, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: Minnie chopped off their heads Last Line: That had no hope of ever coming loose Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FIRSTBORN, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: The ewe with the partial prolapse of uterus and rectum Last Line: To the roots of blue violets Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FLAMENCA DUENDE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Not just any hot latin blood, but the fiery Last Line: From the molten center of the earth - dancing, %that gold earring dancing till it too burns Subject(s): Chicanos; Dancing And Dancers; Ranch Life FLEETING MOMENTS, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: A quarter-mile from the ranch house Last Line: His aging eyes are searching %through the sagebrush to the south Subject(s): Ranch Life FLOWERING ALMOND, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: You feed the turtles cat food Last Line: Laid lightly down along the split rail fence %each spring for years Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FOR DAVID, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: Then we feed the cattle with Last Line: From words and the emptiness I feel %is forever Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FOR GRAMPA, by VIRGINIA BENNETT Poem Source First Line: So, now it's come down to this: Last Line: With a grampa for a hero, I guess Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FOR SOULS, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: Perhaps, he said, it's not a man's heart or mind Last Line: And wonders why - it's free, at last. %gread god almight, free %... At last Subject(s): Ranch Life FOUR HORSE HITCH, by JERRY WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: As the monsignor stampedes through Last Line: And summers on diamond creek Subject(s): Ranch Life FROM TOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're the children of the open and we hate / the haunts o' men Last Line: Ee—yow! A-ridin' up the rocky trail from town! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): Ridin' Up The Rocky Trail From Town Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States GATHERING CATTLE ... JACKSON HOLE 1979, WYOMING, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: A few snow flakes falling here Last Line: Just as smooth as a school marm's leg Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life GATHERING MINT, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: He woke quiet, ate potatoes and eggs Last Line: From the beaver slough Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GENERATIONS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: More than casual %but less than %constant companions Last Line: His father's death %make us %the old men now Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GENTLEMAN OF THE PRAIRIE, by MELA D. MLEKUSH Poem Source First Line: He is mulch about rosebushes Last Line: Like loam beneath a plow Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GETTIN' ON, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: You cowboys can tell your bronc ride tales Last Line: Cause their favorite mornin' pastime %is watching me get on Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GIRLFRIENDS, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: In our twenties Last Line: That's why we call it %our indulgence Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women GIVE US A SONG, IAN TYSON, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Write me a tune, ian tyson Last Line: So, please sing one more time, ian tyson, %your song. Yes, sing it again Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GO AND JUST BUCKAROO, by LEON FLICK Poem Source First Line: They say with barbed wire came the fall of the west Last Line: And out in the west, when they lay me down to rest %I'll go and just buckaroo Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GOING TO BUY SOME HEIFERS; THE DEATH OF JESSE PARKER, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: We turn onto a dirt road. Calves scamper away Last Line: Nobody knows what happened Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life GOING TO TOWN FOR PARTS, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Whenever the tractor quits or balks Last Line: No wonder I'm round the bend Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GOOD BUCKSKIN HORSE, by JAY DUSARD Poem Source First Line: Yellow trimmed in black Last Line: Cow-huntin' mother Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life GOOD, CLEAN FUN!, by RODNEY (ROD) NELSON Poem Source First Line: I remember making hay with dad Last Line: It's gonna take some mighty sweet talkin' %when that light burns out again! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GRAINING THE MARE, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Out back of lillie's barn, the sparse Last Line: On the skins of baked potatoes Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GRAND CANYON, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: From this rimrock edge two courting ravens Last Line: You and me Subject(s): Ranch Life GRANDMOTHER'S FRENCH HOLLYHOCKS, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: They were probably planted there by the gate Last Line: Fifty years later, I'm beginning to see %the value of grandmother's beautiful flowers Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life GRANDMOTHER'S LAND, by BARBARA SHIRK PARISH Poem Source First Line: Hers is a land unsettled Last Line: In the distance %o welcome her children home Subject(s): Grandparents; Ranch Life GRANDPA LEW, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Glassed an eye that wasn't there Last Line: Remembered as %ornery Subject(s): Grandparents; Ranch Life GRASSLANDER, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: When I die %bury me on a south slope Last Line: Slumber until the ghosts call me %south Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GREEN LANTERN BAR / EL PASO, TEXAS, by KELL ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Mamacita gives a plate of beans Last Line: It's about all he can say %and it's just about enough Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Ranch Life HAIKU FROM THE MOUNTAINS, SELS., by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Subject(s): Ranch Life HAILSTORM, by JR. COLEN H. SWEETEN Poem Source First Line: I remember the deafening roar Last Line: And find courage born of faith %not of understanding Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HAPPY BIRTHDAY, by MARTHA DOWNER ELLIS Poem Source First Line: One afternoon while I was oever in the office Last Line: He had found over by gavilan Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HARD EASTER, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows from the spruce woods slouch down the hill Last Line: Open underground. Subject(s): Death; Montana; Mountains; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HARD MOVE, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: They had heard the news, and it was bad Last Line: Sometimes it's hard to tell a part of life, %and love, & 'goodbye' Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HAT ETIQUETTE, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: There are rules of decorum and conduct Last Line: And never remove them sombreros. %all those in favor say, 'aye.' Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HE TELLS IT LIKE IT WAS, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: Over thirty years I bin ranchin' an' I ain't seen Last Line: The both of them for now with it so close to bein' dark Subject(s): Ranch Life HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION PIE-EATIN' COWBOY OF THE WEST, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: I just ate 50 pies - started off with coconut Last Line: Just surprise me with something new, sweetie %pie - like tangerine boomerang gooseberry! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HELEN, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: I think now of helen, the bride Last Line: Just to get some rest Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HIRED GUNS, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: All night long they lay Last Line: The hay - for cattle Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life HOMESTEAD ACT, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: For years my sleep was tormented with dreams Last Line: High altitude, high latitude, high interest ranching %came crashing down a no love for lincoln lane Subject(s): Homesteaders; Ranch Life HOMESTEAD IN HELL CREEK CANYON, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Quiet %plenty to do %but %I write ma again Last Line: Split hoof %tiny blue petals %in the same track Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HOMESTEADERS, POOR AND DRY, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: The world was bone dry Last Line: And he promised me %no fear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HORSEBACK ON THE LLANO ESTACANDO, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: The wind is the oldest river, rhythmic Last Line: Until the wind is a river no more Subject(s): Ranch Life; Wind HUNT, by PEGGY SIMSON CURRY Poem Source First Line: High country, man's country in october, hunter's acres Last Line: Prophecies of all things lost -- lost and never found again Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers I OFTEN WISH THAT I COULD BE, by AFTON BLOXHAM Poem Source First Line: I often wish that I could be Last Line: Worth just the joy of having me Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers I REMEMBER BEING BEAUTIFUL, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: My lovely, lineless face Last Line: Hello, good lookin'.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers I WANT MY TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm night guard all alone tonight Last Line: "say, gimme some tobacco, bill" Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;night;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Bedtime;loneliness;southwest;pacific States I'M TEACHING SCHOOL, NOT DEAD, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: Some well-intentioned people ask Last Line: But I'm real careful about using the word never Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.) IF, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: If I hadn't become a cowboy's wife Last Line: If I'd stayed and lived down under %and not become a cowboy's wife Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life IF I LEFT, by PENELOPE REEDY Poem Source First Line: He'd sit at the bar Last Line: She drove him to it' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers IN 1864, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: While the younger daughter slept, she dreamt of mountains Last Line: Against dark velvet and black, black hair Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers IN THE BLOOD, by C. J. BERKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm indian. %I know I don't look it Last Line: In a corner %of the attic Subject(s): Native Americans; Ranch Life IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: Of course I'll come,' I answered Last Line: I think ignorance is punishment enough Subject(s): Ranch Life IN THE TIME OF THE PLAGUE, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: Risk as adventure Last Line: Read keats. Slowly Subject(s): Ranch Life JACK DEMPSEY'S GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far out in the wilds of oregon Last Line: "unmarked, leave dempsey's grave" Subject(s): "boxing & Boxers;cowboys;dempsey, Jack (1895-1983);graves;oregon;ranch Life;west (u.s.);" Tombs;tombstones;southwest;pacific States JACK PATTON, by PEGGY SIMSON CURRY Poem Source First Line: Jack patton, commander of rakers in the hay field Last Line: All my life remembering, 'if you do it, do it right.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers JOHN DEERE DREAMING, by JIM TEX RATHS Poem Source First Line: John deere dreaming - endless circles in the prairie dust Last Line: John deere dreaming on a hot summer day Subject(s): Ranch Life; Tractors JOKER'S PAY, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: If you can make a week-old prolapse seem Last Line: And take the laughter for your pay %because right now, tears are cheap Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life JOSEPHINE HALL, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: She got a good turn-out as funerals go Last Line: Crying come back, %come back Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers JUST A-RIDIN'!, by ELWOOD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh, for me a horse and saddle Last Line: And a snowdrift in your hair. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States KINGS, TONIGHT, by RON CHAPPELL Poem Source First Line: The stove glows red Last Line: I need to know %about peru Subject(s): Ranch Life LASCA, by FRANK DESPREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want free life, and I want fresh air Last Line: In texas, down by the rio grande. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States LAST NICKEL RANCH: PLAINS, MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the living room of the trailer, the father of the woman Last Line: Into the pines. Subject(s): Montana; Prayer; Ranch Life LAWN LESSONS, by ELIZABETH BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Lord, how we laughed Last Line: Why they thought being wet %would matter to those dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ranch Life LAWRENCE, by ANNE SLADE Poem Source First Line: Lawrence lives down the valley Last Line: He swears all you ever need in life is patience %and the right place to wait Subject(s): Ranch Life LEAD MARE, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: That woman there %she can be a lead mare Last Line: Just like they do %at the ranch Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEAVING, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: You were hanging diapers Last Line: That can remove all the stains Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEFT HAND CANYON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the air %which moves the grass Last Line: From their secret houses %of air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers LESSON, by WAYNE NELSON Poem Source First Line: He was grouchier than usual that day Last Line: Sour chuckle as he says to my big brother: %'he ropes like ma fishes' Subject(s): Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Cowboys get up before dawn Last Line: A day they now claim is half gone Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: A cowboy hat's made with great pains Last Line: And a crown that's too big for his brains Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Though little in life is for sure Last Line: And a steady supply of manure Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LIMERICK, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: For riding way out on the prairie Last Line: That your profile will show - so don't tarry Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LISTEN TO THE SUN GO DOWN, by LEON FLICK Poem Source First Line: Upon a warm september's eve Last Line: And listen to the sun go down Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LLAMAS IN THE LANDSCAPE, by GREG KEELER Poem Source First Line: And what are these Last Line: John wayne in drag Subject(s): Ranch Life LONE STAR WOMAN, by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: Twas half moon out on the longest day Last Line: A lone star woman whispered love %took it away before the dawn Subject(s): Ranch Life LONELY MEN, by NEIL MEILI Poem Source First Line: Their little dark houses still dotted Last Line: They broke off tumbleweeds %and were gone Subject(s): Ranch Life LONELY, EMPTY, PRAIRIE SKY, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: In the midst of everywhere I know this place Last Line: I am at home beneath the lonely, empty, prairie sky Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers LOOKIN' FOR A PLACE TO BED DOWN, by DRUMMOND HADLEY Poem Source First Line: Louis and louise taylor had been makin' all the bars Last Line: Sometimes it's hard to find a good place to bed down Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Ranch Life LOOKING BACK, by TERESA JORDAN Poem Source First Line: The secret place is gone Last Line: Only one of us is gone Subject(s): Ranch Life LOVE AND WAR, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Young crow warriors rode into war Last Line: We didn't raise you right Subject(s): Children; Native Americans; Ranch Life LOVE LETTERS, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Wow! Was written in the dust %on the bedside table. Last Line: I would give a year of my life %for that... % wow! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life LOVE LYRICS OF A COWBOY, by ROBERT V. CARR Poem Text First Line: It hain't no use fer me to say Last Line: "dog-gone a clock!"" is what I say." Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States LUCK OF THE DRAW, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: There were a thousand Last Line: In the lead %invincible Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life MADAME CAILLIER, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Driving into light %you close your eyes Last Line: She is with you %white madonna of the clouds Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers MAKE WAY FOR DANIEL BOONE, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Is there anyone left unaware Last Line: Some place to sulk as lewis and clark %bypass my heart on their way west Subject(s): Explorers; Ranch Life MAMA LESSONS, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: I first helped pull a calf...With my mother,' mama said Last Line: Like my mama treat them gently, and when it's time...To worklike hell Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers MAN SHOEING A HORSE AND HIS LITTLE GIRL, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: He whirled those blue eyes on me Last Line: I could pull on and wear %spoke Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life MARIA BENITEZ, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: A bucking horse-twisting gypsy Last Line: Ole maria ole %viva maria ole Subject(s): Chicanos; Dancing And Dancers; Ranch Life MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MATRIMONY, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: The rancher's son had lost his heart Last Line: When she's tired...Or she's rested Subject(s): Cowboys; Marriage; Ranch Life; West (u.s.) MEMORIES OF THREE OR FOUR, by NEIL MEILI Poem Source First Line: I remember being nestled in that old ranch Last Line: A rhythm and a sound like a heartbeat in a womb Subject(s): Ranch Life MESSAGE IN THE WIND, by JESSE SMITH Poem Source First Line: As you set and look from the ridge Last Line: He sent to yer hoss on the wind Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life MONKEY IN THE HIGH 90S, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Faced with a barrage of excited chattering Last Line: Just bring your hunger and contemplate Subject(s): Ranch Life MORNING PRELUDE, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: Though sunrise haze I watch Last Line: To the music of morning Subject(s): Morning; Ranch Life MOUNTAIN LIKKER, by JIM GREEN Poem Source First Line: Usta be powerful likker around Last Line: Have to make his best guess %as to which one of'm done it Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Ranch Life MUD CREEK BEAVER, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Little worker I've walked a mile in these hot, floppy Last Line: I raise my rifle slowly, so very cold and heavny, %so uncompromising in my trembling, hesitant hands Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Ranch Life MURDER OF THE CROWS, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: Shots rang out and birds Last Line: He said it was the crows Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Ranch Life MY GRANDFATHER'S AND FATHER'S HORSES, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: The two old-timers stand out west of town Last Line: Every cowboy has a horse that's not for sale Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life NEVER LET US THINK, by MARTHA DOWNER ELLIS Poem Source First Line: Never let us think that waddingham or montoya Last Line: Never let us think that we shall be the last Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers NEW HAND, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: He gets all the spoiled horses Last Line: That cowboy, he's one of ours Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life NEW KID IS OUTFITTED, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: They decked him down with boots and leggings Last Line: He thirsted out of broken legs Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life NEW RANCH WIFE, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: A bride %walks love-first Last Line: Burns the toast again, %and settles in Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers NIGHT LEGACY, by BARBARA SHIRK PARISH Poem Source First Line: In the one-roomed house of the germans Last Line: But when they wake up and grow old %they will remember Subject(s): Ranch Life NO APOLOGIES, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: Somewhere along the way Last Line: That sent things %wrong Subject(s): Ranch Life NOISE LEVEL, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: I can't endure the city traffic Last Line: The howl of the coyote vies %with the call of the dove Subject(s): Ranch Life NOR A BORROWER BE, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: New pickup, shiny, clean pulls into the yard Last Line: There is no solace %in each other's arms Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Ranch Life NOTES ON AGING, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Beneath me he slows, halts Last Line: Dream about it for fifty years, %you grow wise Subject(s): Aging; Ranch Life OL' COOKY, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Now, ol' cooky was some ugly Last Line: He lived his life in one old shirt %but he met his maker clean Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OLD ANNE, by TERESA JORDAN Poem Source First Line: The arm that hadn't healed right would not bend Last Line: She woke, before the pain set in; the young horse, %stunned,on top of her, had just begun to twitch Subject(s): Ranch Life OLD COYOTE HUNTING MAN, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: When mattie gives birth to coydogs Last Line: Night becomes the voice of coyotes %dawn the silence of the grass Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OLD HANDS, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: It's good to set and listen Last Line: We done come things the way we did %'cause we just didn't know no better Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OLD MAN GOES HOME, by KELL ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Under the discount store Last Line: All I can see is what we've lost Subject(s): Ranch Life OLD PETE, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: First light. The old mule Last Line: It takes forever to get home Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OLD VOGAL, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: Told me I was lucky Last Line: But 'lucky' 'cuz I'm a girl Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers ONE FOR THE SHEEP, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: I met a woman in elko Last Line: Her sheep camp %silent Subject(s): Ranch Life; Sheep ORCHARD, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: We go into it at night Last Line: Tonight so many of them fall Subject(s): Farm Life; Orchards; Ranch Life; Women - Writers ORDINARY MORNING, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: Twas just an ordinary mornin' Last Line: And the calf is doin' fine Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OTHER VOICES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are things we do not tell Last Line: And I hear them %and I don't %and even police can't stop earth telling Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers OUR LITTLE COWGIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "thar she goes a-lopin,' stranger" Subject(s): Cowboys;girls;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States OUR MOTHER'S MOTHER, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: She had no patience Last Line: Into a sliver of dust Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OUR RANGE, by ERIC SPRADO Poem Source First Line: The beauty, the beauty, my pen can't quite share Last Line: But we both belong on this %our range Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life OUT TO GRASS, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: The young lambs bound %as to the tabor's sound,' Last Line: Worthy of what they eat Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out where the handclasp's a little stronger Last Line: That's where the west begins. Subject(s): Cowboys; Patriotism; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States OUTRIDERS AT THE END OF THE TRAIL, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: They contemplate their town-boot toes Last Line: You'll hear no keening to the vaulted skies, %but the good hands know when a good hand dies Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PAHA SAPA, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Four old kings stare Last Line: Marine worlds and %reptile gardens Subject(s): Ranch Life PAINT, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Until she saw the horse, stuffed and saddled Last Line: Finds him still tied to her bedpost Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life PANHANDLE, by LARRY MCWHORTER Poem Source First Line: Where the short grass struggles daily Last Line: Don't stop except for food or gas, %so, it's not a total loss Subject(s): Ranch Life; Texas PARDNERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bad-eyed, tough-mouthed son-of-a-gun Last Line: You ugly ol' scoundrel, you! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PASSING THE MANTLE, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: How small he was Last Line: And look to my son %for his approval Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PEOPLE FROM THE VALLEY, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: The farmers come, come Last Line: Who can write their own obituaries %in the lines of their hard hands Subject(s): Farm Life; Ranch Life PEOPLE WILL TALK, by JUNE BRANDER GILMAN Poem Source First Line: You may get thru the world, but it'll be very slow Last Line: But don't think to stop them, it's not any use, %for people will talk! Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PERFECT WIFE, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: George and I been thinkin' Last Line: This joke was once my life Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PISTOL, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: It's a still and quiet twilight Last Line: He says, damn those old-timers! %why couldn't they pick up this crap? Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PLANTING PEAS, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: It's not spring yet, but I can't Last Line: Dancing in light green resses Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PLAYING WITH FOXY'S NOSE, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: I have a bay cutting filly Last Line: Each breating in contentment %while we're playing with foxy's nose Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life POEM NOTES, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: When he was 92, george hayden told me Last Line: Come clear and begin to fit together %in an olden way we will again remember Subject(s): Ranch Life POINT OF NO RETURN, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: Loading possessions %sorting for the journey Last Line: The wait is almost %over Subject(s): Ranch Life POOR MAN'S SILVER, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: This is not the way it's supposed to end Last Line: Some earthly agony they call ascension Subject(s): Ranch Life POOR WILL'S WIDOW, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Broad-faced as a cow, with bony knees Last Line: Don't need a heap of words %to prove it Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PORTRAIT OF A FATHER, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: My father was a hard man, closed Last Line: Flashing teeth flickering like gems in the dry air Subject(s): Fathers; Ranch Life PRACTICALITY, by JIM HAMMONS Poem Source First Line: If he humps up to buck Last Line: Isn't done by a broken hand Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life PRIZE POSSESSION, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: What's the last thing you would part with? Last Line: But just straighten up, take out the tube %and add a little wax Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life PROPHECY, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: We're not watching the fireworks this year Last Line: I think so,' you say, and I know then -- it is settled Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PURPLE TULIPS, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: After a weekend of shakespeare %and talk and friends, the renewal of Last Line: Of the road; it will always bring us home Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RAIN PRAYER, by MARGOT LIBERTY Poem Source First Line: For so long, we've longed for rain Last Line: Rain remembrance of thy love Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RAISIN EYES, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: I saw my friend ella Last Line: She said with a little laugh Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RANCH NIGHT, WINTER, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rises from his chair, unkinks his back Last Line: Drifts into slumber, glad the sheets are warm. Subject(s): Ranch Life RANCH WOMAN, by MARGARET CARROLL BRADY Poem Text First Line: She skimmed sour cream with a wide flat spoon Last Line: She tasted nectar only wild bee sips. Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women RANCHER ROULETTE, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: It's no trick to get killed ranching Last Line: He said, 'I hope I don't live to be a hundred; %I can't afford it.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RANCHERS' REVENGE, by BOB CHRISTENSEN Poem Source First Line: We'd worked all day a-branding calves Last Line: If that steer did to washington %what washington done to us Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life RARE FIND, by RANDALL J. RIEMAN Poem Source First Line: It's a wonderful thing Last Line: And the feelin' that's there %is more lasting and precious than gold Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life REACHING IN, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: What goes on %inside those wooly bodies Last Line: I have greater respect for my hand now than I used to Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers REASONS FOR RAIN, by BARBARA SHIRK PARISH Poem Source First Line: We gather roday on the doorstone Last Line: When the pony rolled over and the cattle %kicked up their heels Subject(s): Rain; Ranch Life REFLECTION, by LYN DENAEYER Poem Source First Line: It was open session sign up Last Line: Is always found in love's reflection Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RELAPSE, by AUDREY HANKINS Poem Source First Line: Aa books and coors cans Last Line: And know he'll kill you yet Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers REMEMBERING WILLIE MAE, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: I remember like last night, willie mae coming to town Last Line: You know, willie mae, some things just ain't meant to be.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RIDE TO THE CATTLE, by SALLY HARPER BATES Poem Source First Line: The ashes lie smirking Last Line: That my love lets him ride to the cattle Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RIDERS OF THE STARS, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty abreast down the golden street ten thousand Last Line: And a viewless rider swept the sky on the trail of a shooting star? Subject(s): Cowboys; Heaven; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Paradise; Southwest; Pacific States RIDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let us ride together Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horseback Riding;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States RIDING SONG, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: I sit my horse Last Line: And only the hills are forever Subject(s): Cowboys; Horseback Riding; Ranch Life ROCK-SOLID WOMEN, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Gemma's dead, but her presence srcubs the kitchen Last Line: Please say the grudge isn't all we hold between us Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women ROLAND, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: Everyone was sure %roland was my pa Last Line: A child had been in bondage %a woman was set free Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers ROUNDUP, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I was a bride of just three weeks Last Line: That a roundup's no place for a greenhorn bride %you know - I've never returned Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life ROUTE 138, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Near st. Stephens mission Last Line: They reach out to headlights Subject(s): Ranch Life RUMMAGE SALE, by MELA D. MLEKUSH Poem Source First Line: Orange plaid polyester pantsuit Last Line: Rattle in a two-pound folger's can Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SADDLIN'-UP TIME, by ANDY WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: I never looked forward to the end of the day Last Line: Riding drag for the devil to pay for my crimes, %but I'm damned if I'll go 'fore saddlin'-up time Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SAINT FRANCIS 1951, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Ten %and the morning saga Last Line: Looks away %and lies Subject(s): Ranch Life SALMON RIVER BREAKS, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: There are days of sun and sand and stone Last Line: And on a sunny day you can lay me away %where the eagle and osprey come to pray %in the salmon river Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SALOONS, by ED BROWN Poem Source First Line: I've been known to spend time in barrooms Last Line: Cuz that old bar gal's face just can't be replaced %by the back end of these danged old cows Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SANDHILL CRANES, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: We sit on the orange-striped couch Last Line: An open door she passes through Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SEASONS IN SOUTH DAKOTA, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: Dirty snow left in the gullies, pale Last Line: There's still time to sit before the fire, %curse the dead cold outside, %the other empty chair Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SEWING CIRCLE, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Use the long curving needle Last Line: Strands of bloody wool in the catch Subject(s): Ranch Life; Sewing SHIPWRECK, NEW MEXICO, by CYNTHIA J. HARPER Poem Source First Line: It's hard to be a cowboy's kid Last Line: Just hush, there can't be an %answer for everything Subject(s): New Mexico; Ranch Life SHORTHORN, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: Rupert walpole, late of london Last Line: It measured about six by three %in boot hill desert sand Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SISTERS, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: One whine shy of a forced march Last Line: I'm going to name her cream puff Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SMALL TOWN DYING, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Finch's fine furniture Last Line: Cheap fodder for the forgotten Subject(s): Ranch Life SMELL OF SAGE, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Autumns ago, we rode bareback for sage, Last Line: Of sage reached us, seeping through our differences, %tying a loose, but lasting, common bond. Variant Title(s): Smell Of Sav Subject(s): Ranch Life SNAGTOOTH SAL, by LOWELL OTUS REESE Poem Text First Line: I was young and happy and my heart was light Last Line: Walkin' down through laramie with snagtooth sal. Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States SOLD OUT, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: The worst will come tomorrow Last Line: Leabing on the weathered poles %while shadows consume the pasture Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SOLD YOUR SADDLE, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Not so terribly well, I said, in answer to his question Last Line: I'm not sayin' you sold your saddle, but you've put it up for sale Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SONG FROM THE DAY THE PUMP BROKE, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: We fought the water pipes all day Last Line: I love you, and I always will, my dear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SONG OF THE CATTLE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The dust hangs thick upon the trail Subject(s): Cattle;cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States SONG OF THE SQUATTER, by ROBERT LOWE Poem Text First Line: The commissioner bet me a pony - I won Last Line: Anything that you please, but graze lands of the crown! Alternate Author Name(s): Sherbrooke, Viscount Subject(s): Australia; Ranch Life SORTING CATTLE, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Sorting cows, canners and keepers Last Line: Corral %large enough for both of you Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SOUTHWESTERN SUITE, by JAY DUSARD Poem Source First Line: Ice two inches thick Last Line: Load 'em on the trucks Subject(s): Ranch Life; West (u.s.) SPOOKING THE HORSES, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: It wasn't enough to scale the grapestake -- we dared Last Line: Someone else's fruit, tortured into our own Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SPRING, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: Spring is here Last Line: Each death makes a dull sound, %going deep in the ground %without %reverberations Subject(s): Ranch Life SPRING, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: All night he could hear the noise Last Line: Quickly as the river ate the land %from under his feet, passed him by Subject(s): Ranch Life; Spring SPRING, 1965, by JAY DUSARD Poem Source First Line: The tallow truck which Last Line: I hate long goodbyes Subject(s): Ranch Life STARLIGHT OF THE TRAIL, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Packing in the primitive Last Line: To find our dark way home Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life STEPCHILD, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: The muse visits me Last Line: And refuses to return %until I make fresh oatmeal Subject(s): Ranch Life STORE CANDY, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: Don't go,' she said, 'we'll do with what we have.' Last Line: And all the bright store candy scattered round Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Women - Writers STORM FRONT, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: The colt noses the water Last Line: The braided hair rope, my macate, %is rough and stiffens in my hands Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life STORY WITH A MORAL, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Now I know there's things worse that make cowpunchers curse Last Line: And the moral, I think, is if you must take a drink %never, ever remount and ride upstream Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life SUNDOWN IN THE COW CAMP, by JOEL NELSON Poem Source First Line: The hoodie's washed the dishes Last Line: But that old cow's stopped her bawlin' %so I guess she's found her calf Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TACO SAUCE: 1982, by PENELOPE REEDY Poem Source First Line: I fold my apron %and prepare to catch my flight Last Line: And write: 'taco sauce: 1982 %first wife' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TAIL THAT'S LIGHT, by HENRY REALBIRD Poem Source First Line: Goin' on fresh snow Last Line: My song, I'm singin' Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TAKERS, by HOWARD L. NORSKOG Poem Source First Line: The government took all his horses Last Line: That you heroically shot him down laughing %and how he's at last traveled home Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TALL BUSH, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: A cowgirl has a heap of fun Last Line: The bliss of pure relief Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TELL US AGAIN, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Back then,' gemma said, 'they gave you ether, Last Line: Gleaming with sequins Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TEMPTATION, by MIKE LOGAN Poem Source First Line: You think you know temptation Last Line: Til you've rode a horse to school in spring, %you haven't got a clue Subject(s): Ranch Life TERRORIST, by BUCK RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: If I were a poet, a prominent one Last Line: Enough at this till finally I am %thrust cleanly down between the shoulder blades Subject(s): Ranch Life THAW, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: The south slope %bares it's breast Last Line: Out of my back %like grubs Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers THE BANDIT'S GRAVE, by CHARLES PITT Poem Text First Line: Mid lava rock and glaring sand Last Line: O'er the border bandit's tomb. Subject(s): Bandits; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Graves; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Tombs; Tombstones; Southwest; Pacific States THE BELIEFS OF A HORSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the field out back Subject(s): Horses; Ranch Life THE BRONC THAT WOULDN'T BUST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I've busted bronchos off and on Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE BULL FIGHT, by L. WORTHINGTON GREEN Poem Text First Line: The couriers from chihuahua go Last Line: And juan takes his pepita back from the town. Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters; Bulls; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE BUNK-HOUSE ORCHESTRA, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrangle up your mouth-harps, drag your banjo out Last Line: "when we have an hour of firelight set to ""turkey in the straw." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE CALL OF THE PLAINS, by ETHEL MACDIARMID Poem Text First Line: Ho! Wind of the far, far prairies! Last Line: And I answer in ecstasy! Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Plains; Southwest; Pacific States THE CATTLE ROUND-UP, by H. D. C. MCLACLACHLAN Poem Text First Line: Once more are we met for a season of pleasure Last Line: When we danced the day in at the cattlemen's ball. Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE CATTLEMAN'S BURIAL (S.S. MAORI KING, SOUTH SEAS), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bore our comrade from his bunk, we / kept him overnight Last Line: And longed for fields, and running brooks, and all my friends, and home. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Burials THE CHASE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here's a moccasin track in the drifts Last Line: "why, the darling! She's waiting to see" Subject(s): Cowboys;love;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE CLOWN'S BABY, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER Poem Text First Line: It was on the western frontier Last Line: "boys, that was a show that paid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret Subject(s): Babies; Clowns; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Infants; Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He wears a big hat and big spurs and all that Last Line: "like your dudes, who are so melancholy" Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE COWBOY AND THE MAID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Funny how it come about! Subject(s): Courtship;cowboys;marriage;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Weddings;husbands;wives;southwest;pacific States THE COWBOY TO HIS FRIEND IN NEED, by BURKE JENKINS Poem Text First Line: You're very well polished, I'm free to confess Last Line: You forty-five caliber colt! Subject(s): Cowboys; Guns; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOY'S DANCE SONG, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now you can't expect a cowboy to agitate Last Line: When I put the cowboy trimmings on that high-toned dance. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOY'S VALENTINE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, moll, now don't you 'llow to quite Last Line: The [valentine symbol] m-I-n-e. Subject(s): Cowboys; Holidays; Ranch Life; Valentine's Day; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOYS' BALL, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Tunin' up the fiddle Last Line: But this beats dancin' at the cowboys' ball. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE COWBOYS' CHRISTMAS BALL, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Way out in western texas where the clear fork waters flow Last Line: "that lively-gaited sworray — ""the cowboys' christmas ball." Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry Subject(s): Christmas; Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Nativity, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE DANCE AT SILVER VALLEY, by WILLIAM MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Don't you hear the big spurs jingle? Last Line: And danced his dance tonight. Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Jealousy; Ranch Life; Violence; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE DESERT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul Last Line: Just a rain-washed track and an empty gun — and the old home trail ahead. Subject(s): Cowboys; Coyotes; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE DISAPPOINTED TENDERFOOT, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He reached the west in a palace car where the writers Last Line: "done." Subject(s): Cowboys; Disappointment; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE DRUNKEN DESPERADO, by BAIRD BOYD Poem Text First Line: I'm wild and wooly and full of fleas Last Line: When it's my night to hollow — whoo-pee! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Southwest; Pacific States THE END OF THE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "soh, bossie, soh!" Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States THE FOREST RANGERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red is the arch of the nightmare sky Last Line: Fight! For it is not ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Forests; Ranch Life; Woods THE GILA MONSTER ROUTE, by LOUIS FREELAND POST Poem Text First Line: The lingering sunset across the plain Last Line: They were off, down the gila monster route. Alternate Author Name(s): Post, L. F. Subject(s): Cowboys; Railroads; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Southwest; Pacific States THE GLORY TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way high up the mogollons Last Line: "I'll never turn him loose!" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Variant Title(s): High Chin Bob Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States THE GUNDAROO BULLOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there's some that breeds the devon that's as solid as a / stone Last Line: But you mustn't ask for 'bullock' when you go to gundaroo. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; Ranch Life THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've beat my way wherever any winds have blown Last Line: For, once you git the habit, why, you can't keep still. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Millarkey purchased a gramaphone Last Line: At a dollar down and a dollar-a-week. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States THE INSULT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I've swum the colorado where she runs close down Subject(s): Cowboys;drinks & Drinking;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE LEGEND OF BOASTFUL BILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At a roundup on the gily Last Line: "huh! Are you the great grandchildren of the west!" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Americans; Cowboys; Ranch Life; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States THE OL' COW HAWSE, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it comes to saddle hawses, there's a difference Last Line: Hawse! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD COW MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rode across a valley range Last Line: No later than I was! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Aging; Cowboys; Fences; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD MACKENZIE TRAIL, by JOHN AVERY LOMAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, stretching yonder o'er that low divide Last Line: Went rangeing o'er the old mackenzie trail. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States THE OUTLAW, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my rope takes hold on a two-year-old Last Line: That he kaint quite break is himse'f. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE ROAD TO RUIN', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I went into the grog-shop, tom, and stood beside" Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE SHALLOWS OF THE FORD, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever wait for daylight when the stars along Last Line: As the water cleared and sparkled in the shallows of the ford. Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Friendship; Nature; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE SHEEP-HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day across the sagebrush flat Last Line: Thank god! Here comes a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States THE TEXAS COWBOY AND THE MEXICAN GREASER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I think we can all remember when a greaser hadn't Subject(s): Cowboys;honor;racism;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Racial Prejudice;bigotry;southwest;pacific States THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TEXAS GIRL, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a texas maiden, she came of low degree Last Line: Had rested there for ages above a flow of oil? Subject(s): Cowboys; Petroleum; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States THE VIGILANTES, by MARGARET ELIZA ASHMUN Poem Text First Line: We are the whirlwinds that winnow the west Last Line: We are justice, and right, and the law! Subject(s): Cowboys; Justice; Ranch Life; Vigilantes; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THERE'S SOMETHIN' THAT A COWBOY KNOWS., by DARRELL ARNOLD Poem Source Last Line: That draws him to the soul-fulfilling %freedom of the plain Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life THINGS OF INTRINSIC WORTH, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Remember that sandrock on emmells crick Last Line: And nobody knows...Or nobody cares... %about things of intrinsic worth. Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life THOSE DAMNED WIRE GATES, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: The sun was high, the weather fair Last Line: Cuz I'm at war with those damned wire gates! Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers THRESHING TIME, by NEIL MEILI Poem Source First Line: I remember at crhistmas getting a great toy threshing machine Last Line: And the old hands laughed, and the new hands laughed %and they were men together Subject(s): Ranch Life; Toys THROUGH ASPENS AND BEYOND, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Our woodstove blazes against winter Last Line: I bend toward the light, %through aspens and beyond Subject(s): Ranch Life TIL I DEPART, by JOHN DOFFLEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Few men feel these hillsides breathe Last Line: I'll keep on rhymin' til I depart Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TIME BEFORE WINTER, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Longing grows anywhere Last Line: Of cowboy coffee, stutters through %night alone, scouting Subject(s): Ranch Life TIMOTHY DRAW, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: We pause at the top of timothy draw Last Line: And we slip on down the draw Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TIN CUP, by BARNEY NELSON Poem Source First Line: Good wine should slip Last Line: Just throw the hell away Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TO A COWBOY'S GRANDSON, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: A late spring blizzard Last Line: We'll ride to the black wolf %dry willow and arikaree Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TO HEAR HIM TELL IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I was just about to take a drink Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders;cowboys;ranch Life;talk;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States TO THE GAUCHAS OF SALTA, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: My sisters of salta Last Line: We have much to speak of Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TO WALLACE, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: I'm not applauding cathouse towns in idaho, Last Line: Like ol' casey on a bronc, wallace, reppin' for the legendary, keeps the old west young. Subject(s): Cowboys; Poetry And Poets; Ranch Life TOP HAND, by GENE RANDELS Poem Source First Line: I've rode the high side Last Line: Where men hit life hard %and gotta be top hand Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TOUGH GOODBYE, by VIRGINIA BENNETT Poem Source First Line: He stood there by the windmill, and gazed out over his spread Last Line: But as he heads for his truck he knows, it'll take all he's got to do it Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TOWARDS HORSES, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Near castle butte, the clouds Last Line: Never ending road Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life TRANSPLANTED, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: He takes 63's calf Last Line: He feels her gaze %steady upon her Subject(s): Ranch Life TREASURE, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: When I cowboyed for the old zr Last Line: The old ways are the best ways %bulls were meant to drive, not lead! Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life TROPHY, by VESS QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: Each year he makes Last Line: From the mothering spruce %into a welcome bullet Subject(s): Ranch Life TWO THINGS IN LIFE THAT I REALLY LOVE, by GARY MCMAHAN Poem Source First Line: There's two things in life %that I really love Last Line: I may rest %between the two things %that I love best Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life UNCLE, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: He sips coffeee Last Line: Had hot tempers, and did %their own law-making Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life UNCLE TOM'S SAWMILL, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: The whine of the saw Last Line: Slaves to drive %our own way Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Ranch Life UNDER THE HUNTER MOON, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: I slip the rifle sling over my shoulder Last Line: Her eyes hold me accountable Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers VIA SATELLITE, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Half a world away I hear Last Line: Her voice again, hear her soft hello Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WAIT 'TIL YOU BECOME A MAN, by ERIC SPRADO Poem Source First Line: I remember seeing men Last Line: Maybe I've become a man Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WAITING, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Beside the table sitting Last Line: Now she must undo that thing inside her %that tells her to wait Subject(s): Death; Ranch Life WATCHING THE STUFF ON THE NEWS, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: Watching the stuff on the news Last Line: Something will make it Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WEANING TIME, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: She rides with the men as morning sun Last Line: Beginning to fill the empty corral Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WEATHER, by RED STEAGALL Poem Source First Line: There's something about a cool october mornin' Last Line: There's no place I'd trade for this ranch Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WHAT'S LEFT OF THE WEST, by GREG KEELER Poem Source First Line: Manifest destiny ain't had a rest Last Line: Take a jet back to cleveland and dream Subject(s): Ranch Life WHAT??!!, by KAY KELLEY Poem Source First Line: The honeymoon was in full swing Last Line: And he sure is special to me Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WHEN BOB GOT THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That time when bob got throwed Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;revenge;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHEN COWBOYS CRY, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: In a nearly shadowed corner Last Line: For chrissake, among friends, then where Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WHEN WORDS FIRST SPOKE TO ME, by PEGGY SIMSON CURRY Poem Source First Line: When words first spoke to me -- Last Line: Hemorrhagic septicemia hemorrhagic septicemia Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WHEN YOU'RE THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If a feller's been a-straddle Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east Last Line: The indian land,— land of the golden west. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States WHISKEY BILL: A FRAGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A-down the road and gun in hand Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHO'S THAT CALLING SO SWEET?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The herds are gathered in from plain and hill Last Line: Twas loved ones' voices from far off across the seas Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;ranch Life;sound;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHOLE LOAD, by WADDIE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In a western town in the days of old Last Line: But I wouldn't feed her the whole durn load Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WIDOW OLSON, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: So we passed this neat little ranch Last Line: A day's ride ahead Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WILD FLOWERS, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Moving to the prairies, there are things you should know Last Line: Wild flowers, warnings Subject(s): Flowers; Ranch Life WILD ONE GOES, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: A spavined mare limps out Last Line: Though, christ, the skies are clear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WINTER SOLSTICE, by ELIZABETH BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Work horses, eyes closed Last Line: Telephone wires were lonely %without birds Subject(s): Ranch Life WOMAN OF THE LAND, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Her name won't be in history books Last Line: Her heart is where it wants to be - %this woman of the land Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life WORK FOR FOOD, by ROD MCQUEARY Poem Source First Line: Where highways %93 and 40 cross Last Line: Save - the wave Subject(s): Ranch Life WORKING RANCH, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: We envy you,' said my city friends Last Line: Another day like this has been %and, hell - I'll give 'em this one Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life YELLOWSTONE, by WALLACE MCRAE Poem Source First Line: Millions of buffalo curried her flanks Last Line: She's a wild old girl, let her looks not deceive you...%but we love her in spite of it all Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life YES, IT WAS MY GRANDMOTHER, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source Last Line: Grandma, and it is wild and untrained Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers YOU ASK, by LISA QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: If I was lonely %as a little girl Last Line: Full of invisible tea Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers ZARZYSKI STOMACHS THE OXFORD SPECIAL WITH ZIMMER ..., by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Donning his bronc-stomper black hat, cock-eyed Last Line: These z-boys need 'em real awful bad Subject(s): Ranch Life; Restaurants |
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