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John Yaws
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 860
Texas

0 posted 2001-08-12 11:00 PM

Driftin' 'round the country,
With my saddle on my shoulder-
A bedroll, and one extra suit of clothes...
The only thing that's certain-
Is the fact I'm gettin' older,
Where I'll wind up, the good Lord only knows.

They called it youthful wildness-
When I set out on the circuit,
They all said I'd outgrow it in awhile.
But that was twenty years ago,
And any way you work it-
Growin' up don't seem to fit my style.

My friends all say I'm crazy-
(And maybe they're not lyin')
For tryin' hard to catch a fallin' star.
But when your dreams are dyin'-
You have to keep on tryin'
For givin' up won't take you very far.

I like to watch the sunsets-
Across wide open spaces...
And passin' lots of City Limit signs...
The thing that makes me happy-
Is seein' stranger's faces-
And knowin' soon I'll leave them all behind.

Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

1 posted 2001-08-12 11:40 PM

This could be a country song sang over an open fire...

" I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be" George William Curtis"

Kay

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

2 posted 2001-08-13 07:24 PM

I was just thinking that same thing. . . I love these stories of yours. . . they always make me smile. . .

Well done Sir. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2001-08-13 10:33 PM

Slinger~
You tell 'em like nobody else ... I love this~

'And any way you work it-
Growin' up don't seem to fit my style.'

Yeppers ! I like it !
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

4 posted 2001-08-13 11:10 PM

Slick...Slick - slippin' and sliding from face to face makes for a big wagon-full of
watering holes and feed bags. Live it out to the end, my man...friends yer yet to meet have their hands out to ya already.

Neat, thoughtful, honesty here...yep, yep.

jwesley

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

5 posted 2001-08-14 01:24 AM

This may be the "song of a drifter' but it'a also the song of a true poet!

Betty Lou Hebert

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