She Left With My Best Friend

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Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2004-08-28 11:55 PM

I did a lot of dreaming,
Of how it all would end.
How I would be a champion,
The money I would win.

My name would be a household word,
For folks who rodeo...
My future looked so rosey,
No way for me to know...

I met her in Fort Stockton,
Blonde hair and eyes of blue.
She told me that she loved me,
I said I loved her too.

I thought she was my woman,
She claimed I was her man.
We entered in the same shows,
Me, rough stock, her chasin' cans.

Then I drew a bronc in Fresno-
Chute-fightin', rank as sin.
I knew if I could ride him,
I couldn't help but win.

Off balance from the get-go,
He fell and then he rolled,
I heard the sound of breaking bones,
And then I was out cold.

So now my ridin's over-
How did the story end?
The sorry cayuse broke my back,
She left with my best friend.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2004-08-29 12:32 PM

oh, but you had a really rough ride this time
but a good write, m'friend

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2004-08-29 03:03 AM

always love your stories

Sunshine

Administrator

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2004-08-29 07:18 AM

I, too, enjoy these tall tales, Sir!

kayjay
Member Elite

since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

4 posted 2004-08-29 11:05 AM

This is a fine story! Have you ever been interested in the annual cowboy poetry session in Winnemucca, NV in January? It seems like your writing would do well there.
Good to read you. KJ

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

5 posted 2004-08-29 11:31 AM

A hard ride...good read...

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

6 posted 2004-08-29 01:04 PM

Like an old fashioned country song - enjoyed this.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

msflame
Member

since 2002-05-21

Posts 188

7 posted 2004-08-29 03:15 PM

Excellent, just meter, rhyme, content, everything. Thank you for sharing your gift with the readers.

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

8 posted 2004-08-29 09:33 PM

GS...always nice to read your rodeo poems

Suetang
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since 2001-03-07

Posts 5187
Melbourne, Australia

9 posted 2004-08-29 11:52 PM

Great story, 'tho a sad ending.

Take care.....Sue

I am in motion
I am blue
Love is an ocean
I'm anchored in you
- Shawn Mullins

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