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Happy holidays all!
We add new poetry every day in December, through Christmas and list them below.
You can also enjoy the poems from past years' celebrations: 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2000 and see a list of all those poems here.
Along with our daily additions, we post holiday news and features here.
Our award-winning anthology, The Big Roundup, is the perfect gift for everyone on your list.
Preview The Big Roundup here.
There's order info here."Here's a perfect holiday gift...."
Brooke Demetz Oklahoma Today"An entertaining and heartwarming collection of modern and classic
Cowboy Poetry. A wonderful treasury, including many of my favorites."
Don Edwards, America's favorite Cowboy singer"Cowboy poetry provides an important link to my own rural roots. The Big Roundup is a fine collection of cowboy poetry -- old and new."
The Honorable Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor, author of Lazy B"...a wonderful addition to our cowboy poetry collection..."
Randy Williams, Curator, Fife Folklore Archives"From the classics to contemporary, Cowboy Poetry is alive and represented well in The Big Roundup anthology. The 'Best of the West' section is a great information source for folks looking for a directory of events and places representing our Art Form."
Chris Isaacs, the Cowboy's Cowboy humorist and poet,
Rhymes, Reasons and Pack Saddle Proverbsand more praise here.....
Listed Below Alphabetically by Poet, Classic Poets First
with poems posted in a haphazard orderAt least one new poem is added each day (marked
) until Christmas,
along with selected classic and contemporary favorites from past years' celebrationsOur Christmas Art Spur project has a growing collection of poems inspired by
"Seein' Santa" by Charlie Russell. Links to those poems are included below.Click a title to go direct to a poem or use the pointer to
just enjoy goin' from page to page
S. Omar Barker
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer from Christmas 2001
E. A. Brininstool
Christmas Week in Sagebrush
William Lawrence "Larry" Chittenden
The Cowboy's Christmas Ball from Christmas 2001
Badger Clark
The Christmas Trail from Christmas 2001
Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas
Bruce Kiskaddon
The Old Time Christmas from Christmas 2002
The Cowboys Christmas Dance from Christmas 2001
The Christmas Tree
Buck Ramsey
Christmas Waltz from Christmas 2003
David Althouse
Cowboy Christmas Carol
JW Beeson
Christmas Serenade from Christmas 2002
Virginia Bennett
Sermon on the Mount from Christmas 2002
Alf Bilton
The Freight Musher's Tale
George Bourbeau
Christmas Conversion
Doug Brewer
Little Pot-bellied Stove
Gail T. Burton
How Far is it to Bethlehem
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer from Christmas 2001
Carl Condray
Winter Stampede from Christmas 2002
Clark Crouch
A Prairie Christmas
Santa's Brand Art Spur (separate section)
Jan Erickson
Uncle Charlie's Christmas Eve Art Spur (separate section)
A Day in December
Doris Daley
A Christmas Prayer from Christmas 2003
Sam DeLeeuw
A Rancher's Christmas
Buckshot Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson
The Star and a Humble Cowboy from Christmas 2001
Glen Enloe
The Red Calico Cowboy Santa Claus of Concho County
Christmas in a Bottle Art Spur (separate section)
Dave P. Fisher
Seein' Santa Art Spur (separate section)
Dennis Gaines
Jim Quarternight's Gift from Christmas 2000
Janice Gilbertson
Seein' Is Believin' Art Spur (separate section)
DW Groethe
A Charlie Creek Christmas from Christmas 2003
Dennis Higgins
The Ballad of Big Nick
Yvonne Hollenbeck
All American Christmas from Christmas 2002
Michael Henley
The Guthrie Christmas Trail Art Spur (separate section)
LaVonne Houlton
The Christmas Miracle
Sam Jackson
Country Christmas from Christmas 2001
Carole Jarvis
Desert Cowboy's Christmas from Christmas 2002
Jim John
A Cowboy Holiday Wish
Joyce Johnson
A Stormy Christmas Eve Art Spur (separate section)
Doug Keith
Remember Christmas
Don Kennington
Preparation
Paul Kern
My Blue-Eyed Bay
Tom King
Pedro's Christmas Tree
Linda Kirkpatrick
The Christmas Story from Christmas 2000
Jo Lynne Kirkwood
Visitation Art Spur (separate section)
Cowboys and Christmas
Joe Kunkel
One Saturday in December
Chuck Larsen
The Perfect Tree
Harold Roy Miller
Christmas Night Ride Art Spur (separate section)
Jane Morton
Seein' Santa Art Spur (separate section)
Christmas Love
Curly Musgrave
Prairie Silent Night
Rod Nichols
A Christmas Journey
Seein' Santa Art Spur (separate section)
Ken Overcast
Givin' a Little Back (story)
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer
Mike Puhallo
Running in the Team
What's It All About Charlie Brown
Pat Richardson
Christmas Cheer from Christmas 2003
Rich Roach
A Cowboy Christmas
Francine Roark Robison
Cowboy Christmas Ball from Christmas 2002
Lincoln Rogers
December's Trail Home
Rusty Salmon
Never Too Late Art Spur (separate section)
Bruce Satta
Temperance Art Spur (separate section)
Somethin' in the Air
Georgie Sicking
The Spirit of Christmas
Charley Sierra
A Christmas Poem from Christmas 2000
Jay Snider
Santa's Helper from Christmas 2001
Never Shop on Christmas Eve
Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns
The Reason for Dead Deer
Grampaw's Elf
Jeff Streeby
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Colen Sweeten
In a Manger from Christmas 2002
Hal Swift
First One to Daylight Art Spur (separate section)
The Language of Christmas
Tex Tumbleweed
On the Border
Leroy Watts
A Cowboy Christmas Gathering
Omar West
Anna Claus from Christmas 2000
Visit our Art Spur project for our growing list of Christmas poems
inspired by Charlie Russell's "Seein' Santa."
"Seein' Santa"
by Charles M. Russell, 1910
C. M. Russell Museum
Great Falls, Montana
reproduced with permission
See a complete list of all the holiday poems from 2000-2004 here.
See the links here for holiday news and more.
Click a title to go direct to a poem, use the pointers to
just enjoy goin' from page to page.
See the links here for holiday news and more; our regular News Since the Last Newsletter is here.
See a complete list of all the holiday poems from 2000-2004 here.
See all the holiday poems from 2003 right here.
See all the holiday poems from 2002 right here.
See the Countdown to 2002 New Year poems here.
See all the holiday poems from 2001 right here.
See all the holiday poems from 2000 right here.
See the list of all the poems at the BAR-D here.
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