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Open Poetry #23

I'll Follow Rodeo

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2002-10-16 07:42 PM

We can't remain alone together,
Though we have for quite sometime.
It seems your aspirations,
Never quite lined up with mine.

We met in Arizona,
At the Prescott rodeo.
I thought you liked the drifting life,
You never told me, No.

But nothing seemed to suit you.
And all you do is nag,
All I've to show for eight long years,
Is in my rigging bag.

I'll load up my old pickup truck
And pack my rigging sack.
Take my faded Wrangler jeans,
I'm never coming back.

You don't go round in life but once;
I'll give it all I've got.
I'm just a drifting cowboy,
And I can't be what I'm not.

I'll never make the finals-
With ten head for the gold.
But I can make a living, girl.
I'm really not that old.

I'll call you if you want me to,
For old times' sake, you know?
And let you pursue your career,
I'll follow rodeo.

[This message has been edited by Gunslinger (10-16-2002 11:08 PM).]

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

1 posted 2002-10-16 07:52 PM

Excellent write John...
I love the tales you spin...
and I do hope they are just that...tall tales m'friend.
~Hugs~

~ Time has cast a spell on you
So you won't ever forget me ~

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

2 posted 2002-11-30 05:02 AM

Gunslinger~
I always enjoy reading your poetry and this is no exception.
I can feel the cowboy's aching heart in this piece.
Very nicely penned.
Hugs,
~Vicky
"...until you have read the verse on his heart,
you have not truly met the poet.
~vlraynes

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