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Dom Mart
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since 1999-08-17
Posts 164
Florida

0 posted 2000-05-16 07:40 AM




I'll never be a cowboy poet,
A balladeering buckaroo.
A horse? Isn't that a species
That I saw once in a zoo?

I could never be a rider
With a cattle branding crew
Of a sage that's purple, yellow,
Green or any other hue.

Stetsons, chaps and neckerchiefs
Would, on me, fall short of chic.
And chewing jerky for my lunch?
I think my jaws may be too weak.

But cowboys are my heroes,
Though I'd never make the grade.
And poets are the finest beings
Mother Nature ever made.

When you put the two together,
You produce a creature higher
On the slopes of Mount Parnassus
Than any city versifier.

Yes, add the poet to the cowboy
And sure as campfires flicker,
You'll generate some envy
In this rhyming city slicker.

© Copyright 2000 Dom Mart - All Rights Reserved
Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733
Michigan
1 posted 2000-05-16 08:46 AM


This was Awesome!!!!  "everyone" loves a cowboy....for different reasons of course  
The humor within this was great...you made me   today   Thanks!!


 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

~Eleanor Roosevelt~

Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648

2 posted 2000-05-16 11:53 AM


Delightful, Dom! There is something so romantic about a cowboy, that's for sure! But even a city slicker poet is romantic!

Denise

SpitFire
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since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396

3 posted 2000-05-16 12:59 PM


~Heehee,...loved this.  Thanks for sharing...so fun.  
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