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Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09
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0 posted 2009-06-19 10:49 PM



I’m not getting any younger-
And it’s time I realized…
I’d better stop and smell the roses,
Lay and gaze up at the skies.

All the youthful vim and vigor-
Like a vapor are long gone.
Even in a crowd I’m lonely-
I guess I’ve always been alone.

In my mind I’m still a champion-
Like I thought I was back then,
It was always, “This next season…”
Just another “might have been”.

Every season was the “big one”-
Was the one I “won it all”-
Start in Houston in the winter-
Then “the Daddy of them All”!

Dreams of Vegas, and the Finals-
The ten head I never drew.
All the dreams and miles I traveled,
All the nights when I was blue.

I hope I die while I am dreaming,
Of the roaring of the crowd-
In my sleep I’m young and able-
In my dreams I’m “cowboy proud”.

Where I die, don’t really matter.
But I hope that when I go…
There’ll be some who will remember-
That I used to rodeo.

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BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
1 posted 2009-06-19 11:16 PM


Hi there Gunslinger~
In a way your rodeo days live on through your poetry.
I so enjoy a good western and you certainly know how to kick up the dust.

Great to read you here tonight, cowboy.


brneyedgrly
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since 2009-06-08
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2 posted 2009-06-20 01:53 AM


All the youthful vim and vigor-
Like a vapor are long gone.
Even in a crowd I’m lonely-
I guess I’ve always been alone.


~guns...this is a sad poem, but cowboys rock!

Heart2Heart
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since 2009-05-15
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3 posted 2009-06-20 03:13 AM


Ah yes but we can always dream on through what we write, although it's not the same I know.  Loved this one with a little nostalgic twist to it.  Great rhymes and flow to your poem, enjoyed it very much.
Heart2Heart

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4 posted 2009-06-23 02:02 AM


You share your rodeo with us and now - when i think of "rodeo" or watch bullriding on tv, honestly you drift across my thoughts.

Pretty cool actually.

A

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