Cowpoke Poems - Poems about Cowpoke

...Cowpoke by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16 Sleep, old man... your day has long since passed. The endless plains, cool midnight rains and changeless ragged cows alone remain of what once was.......Read the rest...

...~ Mary Fields… Was born into slavery somewhere back east she thought it was Hickman County, Tennessee Growing up, she had learned how to read and write though she'd spent her childhood in captivi......Read the rest...

...In my mind I'm a cowpoke Glass of jack in my hand Watching Texas Two step To a Texas Swing Band. I've got slim line Levi's jeans And a black Stetson hat and tooled leather boots I'm a real coo......Read the rest...

...In Soup Creek saloon behind Jenna’s bar Milt’s holsters and belt and a posthumous star Are fixed to a plaque to remember him best There’s a custom made bracket where Milton’s guns rest The gun ......Read the rest...

...It's time to get the stockings out of storage before those who are nosey, begin to forage, in my saloon, lookin' for their Christmas gift. I know if I catch em' they'll plead the fifth......Read the rest...

...Sometimes I Gotta Laugh, So I Don't Cry Am I the punch line for life’s cruel joke? Bad luck follows me, don’t ask me why Oh geez, I think I’m gonna need a smoke Moved to a small town to meet so......Read the rest...

...An old cowpoke from Cheyenne, Wyoming Got a hankering and set out a roaming. He got as far as Montana, Choked on a banana, And returned in a box the next morning. There was no one waiting to m......Read the rest...

...Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills) and a bridge too far on north-west passage. From out of the Valley of Mizpah to the fires of perdi......Read the rest...

...An old cowpoke on a ranch near Cheyenne Is Wyoming’s main Muppet fan His wife’s mad as can be: It’s Miss Piggy or me! He sighs: Don’t worry Kermit’s--her man 2/11/22......Read the rest...

...'Tis fascinating to read epitaphs that upon stones are etched; Some are rather appealing, some are tragic, others a bit far-fetched! 'Neath this stone lie at peace a husband and his wife She a......Read the rest...

...I heard tell some folks think cowboys built the West. The only thing I know for sure is I always did my best to give a man a good days work for an honest wage ridin' among tumbleweeds and dried br......Read the rest...

...There was once an old cowpoke named Myers So bow-legged he looked like a pliers In order to straddle Himself in the saddle He needed block and tackle supplie......Read the rest...

...A cowboy don't need no plushy pew or a rantin' preacher, Pontificatin' from his pulpit aerie as his spiritual teacher! He gits his religion from (to him) a more gratifyin' source, Cherishin' God's......Read the rest...

...I imagine little house on the prairie (bordering Lake Woebegone), a place to hang cloak most bucolic, edenic, idyllic... apropos place for this poetic cowpoke, who at present day trumpets him......Read the rest...

...Riding the rails was memorable they say; in the days of the old iron horse. Those old steam trains make a good mystery; all sorts of things could happen, while riding across the plains. To see t......Read the rest...