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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2003-09-02 08:38 PM

Cowboy Pride

All that he owns is a heart full of hope,
And a bell and a pad, on a tight-braided rope.
A burning desire to top wooly hide-
He's five feet, eight inches of cowboy pride.

From Houston to Cheyenne, Fort Worth to L.A.
He's trying to make the Pro-rodeo pay.
If he don't make the Finals, you'll know he sure tried.
He's a first rate example of cowboy pride.

It makes me think back, over miles and some years.
Of giving my all, overcoming my fears...
Hungry and hurting, I slept on the road,
And cowboyed-up every time I got throwed.

Too many "buck-offs", too many bad draws-
Too many broke bones, riding sure-nuff outlaws.
I hung it all up, I would rather have died,
It sure took a toll on my cowboy pride.

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

1 posted 2003-09-02 09:06 PM

GS..as I've said many times before, you need to write for Garth Brooks

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

2 posted 2003-09-02 09:51 PM

How was your summer my favourite cowboy? Grand I hope. I always enjoy your writing. hgus, Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul ~
Emily Dickinson

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2003-09-02 09:54 PM

Great write John!
Very much enjoyed the read as always!
~Hugs~

~ Summer can't be over...
I still have the sand in my shoes ~

garysgirl

Member Laureate

since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

4 posted 2003-09-02 10:04 PM

Cowboy, I love the rodeo and
love this poem, too.

Hugs

Ethel

SharaRose
Member Elite

since 2003-07-19

Posts 2501
Somewhere out there~

5 posted 2003-09-02 11:35 PM

WOW...seems so strange to read something from someone right here in Houston. Well giving a shout out from home town. Good write, and it's nice there's someone to read from so close to home. It was a welcome sight.

Shara @-->--

Of sound, and speech let all lift the hearer!

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

6 posted 2003-09-03 01:01 AM

Gunslinger...I really enyoyed reading all your poems. I love the rodeo with the bull riders.Were you ever really in the rodeo?
Thanks for sharing this great poem with us...Paul

"To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you"

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