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VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-05-17 10:58 AM


inspired by the Walla Walla, Washington Balloon Stampede:

Country  Stampede
Virginia Salter

“Sioux City Sue” my heart does woo
clad in them “Golden Slippers.”
Seen travelin’ on “The Wabash Cannonball”
whizzin’ past sweetest aromas of them all.

Saturday Fair with music and wares
sparkin’ up a week-end’s play
Crowds a watchin’ while the horses race
‘neath the sky of a thund’rous gray.

Bidin’ time in the afternoon
waitin’ for the big balloon
To glow its glimmer under crescent-mooned sky
while she snuggles with this gladsome guy.

“Sioux City Sue,”
she stole my heart away,
She carried it aloft
in her sweet, sweet sway.

So “Bury Me Not,
on the Lone Prairie,”
before my Sue
grants to marry me!

©May 17, 2001          

© Copyright 2001 Virginia Salter - All Rights Reserved
angelswing
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since 2000-02-10
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1 posted 2001-05-17 11:05 AM


Real nice poetry, the imagery is briliant, I can realy feel the atmosphere that you are creating . Great poem . Thanks .
L.of.L. Tommy .
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VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon
2 posted 2001-05-17 11:11 AM


Thanks Tommy.  It was neat listening to lots of oldies, country, folk and gospel. An interesting day!
Alan
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since 2000-09-12
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right next door
3 posted 2001-05-17 11:56 AM


This is good. I could see it all. I too like that kind of music. So it was easy for me to be there with you. I truely enjoyed it
Alan

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
4 posted 2001-05-17 12:01 PM


Vas,
Interesting, enjoyed the read.

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