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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2003-09-29 04:51 PM

My Wrangler jeans, and faded shirt-
My bullhide, roper boots.
A dirty, silverbelly hat,
Show my West Texas roots.

Although I may be fifty-
I still have itchy feet.
And long to spread my blankets,
Where the sky and mountains meet.

I rode a lot of bad ones,
Back when I was young.
I've dug my share of post holes,
And, Lord, the wire I've strung.

I've saddled before daybreak,
Turned 'em out when moon was high.
And breathed a lot trail dust,
Underneath the western sky.

I've blistered from the branding fire,
And froze while riding fence...
And turned down better paying jobs,
I didn't have no sense.

I wouldn't trade a minute,
Of my days of punching cows,
In a lot of ways I'm wishing
It's what I was doing now.

There's just something about getting up
To greet the newborn day.
Of catchin' up the saddle stock,
And feeding grain and hay...

They say I'm living in the past,
It's true. Do you know why?
No matter how I earn my pay,
I'm a cowboy till I die.

dingusjr
Member

since 2003-09-24

Posts 415
Missouri

1 posted 2003-09-29 05:17 PM

Howdy Pard! Good stuff here...makes me want to saddle up myself...
but this city slicker would just get bucked off. Thanks for the poem.....Larry

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2003-09-29 05:19 PM

Nice to see you posting again! You know ... when I visited Texas a couple of years ago, I talked to some real cowboys down there, who would not trade their life of dust, and roping doggies for anything - so this poem could not be more true. Your rhyme, again, devine - thanks for the great read.

Carpe' Diem
The Canuck, Sharon

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

3 posted 2003-09-29 05:35 PM

Thanks, Myst, but it's dogies (long O) I roped an alligator one time though, and as a matter of fact I have roped a few dogs over the yearls. lol Thanks.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2003-09-29 06:20 PM

You are a true cowboy through and through!
I love your tales of the rodeo and old west!
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~ I love your glances meeting mine
across forever or the room ~

Tim
Senior Member

since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

5 posted 2003-09-29 07:24 PM

Good un, enjoyed.

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