Folks' Poems: Mark Edevold Cowboy Poetry at the BAR-D Ranch www.CowboyPoetry.com

MARK EDEVOLD
Crookston, Minnesota
About Mark Edevold

A Funny Horse

Do horses have a sense of humor?

I've a suspicion that they might

I know for sure they know directions

and some seem to know wrong from right

some horses just plain don't give a damn

some, all they want to do is play

I guess I know a couple cowboys

kinda act about the same way

Well I was riding my old bay gelding

I always thought he was real good broke

at least he'd always acted that way

til one day he decided to pull a joke

they say humor is mostly timing

and that horse had it down to a tee

I'd slipped my right boot outta the stirrup

and was kinda scratching behind my knee

he took a humped up sideways crowhop

and I landed with more a plop than a thud

then he stood and watched me get up

covered head to toe in mud

Well I mounted back up and we rode on

the old bay didn't make no more fuss

but he kept his right ear cocked back

just to listen to me cuss

© 2007, Mark Edevold
This poem may not be reprinted or reposted without the author's written permission.

Mark told us, "I wrote this poem while I was thinking about how horses have personalities and character traits similar to people, and to cowboys in particular."

About Mark Edevold:

I own two horses now and have had horses off and on since I was a kid and a couple years back helped a friend break/start a couple colts. I also bought my current two bay geldings back in 1998 when they were green-broke 2 year olds, and had quite a bit of fun getting them trained and dependable. I am also a guitar player, and I write a few songs now and then.

In live in Crookston, Minnesota, which is up in the NW corner of the state, and I also lived in Colorado, New Mexico, and Montana, and have a love of the West and the rural/ranching way of life. I work In a little town called Gonvick, Minnesota, where we have a family business making Mrs. Olson's Lefse (www.mrsolsonslefse.com), which we sell all over the country. This is a picture of me with a Big Dipper Ice scooper, which I invented and patented.