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Submitted Poems

We display the titles for at least the two most recent poems or songs accepted for each poet. 

There is a full index of all poems and songs here.

All of a writer's poems or songs are posted on a writer's individual page. 

CowboyPoetry.com occasionally chose Lariat Laureates (and "8 Seconds") from accepted submissions, from 2000-2010. That program is ended. Ken Cook was the final Lariat Laureate. Find more information here.

 

Ken Cook

Grandpa
The Conversation
Come with Me
Revel in the Journey
Ridin' With Georgie...I wish
Best for Now
Not Waitin' On Someday
Home
Shadow Demons
Lived It
Grandpa's Spurs

 

Sam DeLeeuw

Cowboy Jumpstart
Prayer of a Rancher's Wife
Lead the Way
Don't Weep for Me
Spreadin' Sunshine
Harley's Helper
Boolie Shoppin'
Registered Broodmare
The Rancher
Spring
Gathered Up
What Will We Do
These Women of the West

LaVonne Houlton

Ern Peddler
Town and Country
Grown Old
The Best Laid Plans
Doby
No Home on the Range
Cousin Don Landes (prose in Western Memories)
The Fifth of July
Roots...in the Morgan World (prose in Western Memories)
The Down-and-Outer
A Journey Into Yesterday
The Christmas Miracle
  Cowpoke Philosophy
Mr. Miley's Palomino (prose in Western Memories)
The Wanderer
Ace
No Sale
The Christmases of My Childhood (1930's)
Spring Love
Joseph
Warm Thoughts of Cold Creek
Last Word
A Brighter Day

Sam A. Jackson

Midnight on the Kaibab
Beyond?
Western Legends Round-up
The Reminisce
New Year's Resolutions for Cowboy Poets
Competition (an essay)
Sure Fire Signs
My Pal Gus
Mornin' Songs
"Cowboys! Cowboys! Cowboys!"
Prestige
Comfort First
The Pack Train (ing)
What If?
A Jackass Named Sammy
RA (Rhymers Anonymous)
Cowboy Simulation
My Canvas Home

John D. (Jay) Jones

Stampede
The Last Ride
Brent's Song
Angels in the Moonlight
The Bull Dogger

 

Paul Kern

At Codding's Place 
It's A Mostly Quiet Time of Day
If He Nickers at Yer Comin'
Where Warmth Means Wood
When the Work's All Done
The Tales of the Trail
The Christmas Celebration of Helen Dutton
A Trajectory Off Course
Under a Montana Moon
The Sign of the Grass
A Cowboy Mother's Pay
Evening Sets on the Yellowstone
Bring 'Er Home
A Cowboy Country Christmas
As I Bridle in the Morning
Nary a Track
I'll Just Have to Pay Myself
At the Corral of the Rafter J
A Horse Camp Has a Rhythm of Chores
Seldom Seen in Town
On Smokey Before I Go
Broken Things to Mend
When Emerald Strikes the Clover
Of Kith and Kin
The Last Horse Trade
A Little Perspective on Losing Target (prose)
So Long—So Long Lee for Lee Jacobsen
A Pinto a Paint and a Palomino

Jo Lynne Kirkwood

The Last Round-up
He Could Have Done More
Drifter
Drifter II
Lydia
Waterin' Hole
The Auction
Wild Horse Adoption
Visitation
Cowboys and Christmas
It's Sure Startin' to Feel Like Christmas
Timberline
Longer than Time Understands
Christmas in the County
At His Own Pace
Hard Times Come Again....
Halloween
Why the Cowboy Sings
Cowboy Christmas Eve
Sandy Kris
Bringin' Home Christmas
Dulce est Décor
Water Cycle
Eulogy
Let Me Tell Ya, Pilgrim…

Rod Miller

A Guide to Ranching for the Politically Correct
What Goes Cowboy Up 
Cowboy Coffee 
Luck (Not Exactly the Beginners Kind) 
Forecast
Feral  
Noteworthy  
Morning Glory
An Apology to Readers, Sort of, But More Like an Explanation or Maybe an Excuse
Tabula Rasa
Peace and Quiet
A Good Hand With a Rope
Stopping By Woods
Haiku for a Former Rounder
Heads or Tails
Devil of Devil Creek
Long May it Wave
Mule Whisperer
Migrations
Number 16
Whipping Up a Poem (prose)
"A Brief Introduction to Cowboy Poetry, or, Who's the Guy in the Big Hat and What is He Talking About?" (prose)
A Bolt of Broomtails
Goodnight Goes Riding
A Little Madness in the Spring
"Get Up On Your Hind Legs and Howl" (prose)
The Beauty of Mountains
 

Jane Morton

The Cottonwoods
Spellbound
Summer '34
Hand in Hand  
Turning to Face the Wind
Grazin' Rights
Cowboy Poetry for Cowboy Poetry Week
When Grandpa Bet the Farm
Ranch Beginnings (prose)
Straw Barn
Adrenaline Rush, Matt's Story
Drought Time Along The Santa Maria
Partners
Wild Horses
Bryce's Canyon
Christmas Voices
Dick's Story
Mom's Job
 Steamboat—1896-1914
 Coloring The Horses
The Men Who Rode With Custer
Memories of Place  
The Spirit of Christmas
Trail Driver
Christmas Memories
Cody's Christmas Present
Ranching Tales
Mom's Birthday
When the Grass Greens Up This Spring
Plains Blizzard
New Year Toast
No Bull
Cows and Kids
Childhoods
Ground Tied
Bachelor (1892-1910)

Rooster
Talent
T. R. (Tribute to T. R. Stephenson)
Yep
Cheyenne Buckle
A Christmas Mem'ry
Texas, From a Saddle
Dust
Hidalgo
End of Day
Cowboy 4th of July
Saddle Knowledge (Only A Cowboy Knows), with Scott Bumgardner
Crimson Prairie Rose, with Misslette the Singing Cowgirl
 The Book That Coosie Left
Home from South Dakota
A Visit to the Camp
Ridin' Out
A Pinpoint of Light
Full Circle
At the Jollification
A Penny's Worth
A Thanksgiving Mem'ry
A Badger Clark Christmas
A Christmas Tale
New Year's at Cutter Bills
An Irish Cowboy's Song
The Trail that Leads to Home
Tipperary
A Rancher's Pride
A Little Bit of Shade
A Dads' Prayer
Bringing Home Christmas
The Christmas Corral
An Irish Cowboy
Easter Sunday Mornin'
At His Own Pace
Simply the Best
Cutter Bill's 4th of July
Great Day for a Cowboy
Bill Pickett
Deep October
Buffalo Soldier
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve
Neath a Christmas Eve Sky
Rodeo, Ranchin' And Rhymes
 

Verlin Pitt

Turk Wiggin's Last Song
Billy the Skid
Buttercup
Mustang Mania
Silent Thunder
Wind River Whompus
The Spread
The Surprise
The Cowboy Way
Little Moe the Wrangler
Can't Be Done
The Cougar Gap Incident
Know Your Limitations

Jack Sammon

After the Wet 
Droving Memories
On the Road with Rocklands Cattle (story in the Cowboy Memories project)
Rusty Spurs
Talawanta (story in the Cowboy Memories project)
Those Droving Days
Visions of the Past
The Wet
The Drovers Reunion
Edna Zigenbine
Looking Back

 

Jay Snider

My Old Amigo Lum
Shorthorn Pete
Rainy Day Prayer
Biscuits
Three Hundred Miles to Go
Of Horses and Men
Never Shop on Christmas Eve
Progress
Tyrone and Tyree
Burning Daylight
Minor Adjustments
A Good Day to be a Cowboy
He Always Rode Good Horses
Small Town America
Cowboy Logic
Ode to the Line Shack
The Cowboy's a Legend
Horse Sense

 

Neal Torrey

The Marshal and the Chicken Thieves
The Newton General Massacre
Horseshoes
 Riding the Grub Line
The Ballad of Whispering Boone
The Laramie Kid
The Sojourner; a tribute to a poet

 

Diane Tribitt

Upgrading the Herd
Great Day to be a Cowboy
Half the Hand
A Campfire Christmas Eve
Prayer Under the Northern Lights
That Old Barn
Love's Devotion
Feedin' Cake
Learnin' the Ropes
Live Life Backwards
Where Time Has Stood Still
Cowboy's Premarital Test
Song of the Night Hawk
Heading Out
Weaning
Lost Babies of the Prairie

 

 

G. M. Atwater
The Home Place
Cowboy Life

Don Ayers
The Good Hand
Turned Out
cowboy!

Flavis Bertrand
The Prairies
The Homesteader

Alf Bilton
When Walls Forgot
The Arts (in tribute to Rod Nichols)
Regret (in tribute to Rod Nichols)
Tombless
Tin-horn Tale Number 1001

Barbara Bockelman
Trail Drive-Texas to Oklahoma,1932 (in the Cowboy Memories project)
Two as One

Cathy Brian

The Day the Cows Go Out
Docking the Lambs
Cowboy, Quit Your Cussin'
My Chickens

Gail T. Burton
The Economist
Just Celebrating
The Headless Horseman

Daniel Bybee

Old Jiggs
After the Storm
A Long Walk Home
We Brought 'Em In

Rusty Calhoun
Rancher's Lament
Cowgirl True (for Carol Malnar)

Backward Boots
Tribute to Louis A. Carle

Nona Kelley Carver
Loan Insurance
The Wild Horses
Georgie Sicking

Byrl Keith Chadwell

Cowboy Credentials
The Last Buffalo
God's Back Yard

Carl Condray
Things Only a Cowboy Knows, with Lanny Joe Burnett
A Wild, Turkey Dinner

David J. Dague
Outlaw in Black in The Badlands
 Dealing with "Mirrored Sunglasses"

Graham Dean
A Thousand Dreams
Dreaming
The Dying Breed; an essay about the Australian "Cowboy"

Sue Derksen
I Am a Canadian Cowgirl
My Crooked Little Calf
The Team

Mike Diehl
The Legion of Marshall Bill

David Dill
The Devil's Tale
Tandy Freeman, M.D.

The Shot Glass
No Spurs a- Jinglin'

Mike Dunn
Autumn Reflection
A Dissertation on "Cowboy Stories, Poems & Songs

Mark Edevold
A Funny Horse

K. T. Etling
The Endless Purple Sage
Today He'd Be a Cowboy

Jody Fergerstrom
The Bottom Line
Wishes for Grandpa

Dave P. Fisher
Thanksgiving Grace
 Booger Red

French Camp Red (aka Brad Smith)
The Pickle Jar
Earl's Back from Elko

Bobbie Gallup
Dirt Rich
There's Somethin' 'Bout Old Horses

Davey Lee George (see McCloud)

Don Gregory
Howdy Boss
Comin' Home

Del Gustafson

The Night Wind
The Bad Bay
Trail's End
Moonlight Vigil
Pilgrim
Starting the Day
A Night in Cody
The Roan

Paul Hatch
 The Diagnosis
Vern 'n Virg'...
Global Warmin'

Jean A. (Mathisen) Haugen
Heart of the Rodeo
Trail to Glory for Edna Jean Hornecker Irvine
Life's Long Trail
Cowboys Don't Eat Bagels
Sitting in the Sun
My Ron

Michael Henley
Things I Lean On
Home on Range
Nubbin Miller

Stuart Hooker
All My Cowboys Were Girls
The Boss's Saddle
Night Herd

Allan Horton
Pinto
A Cowboy Joke

Jim John (Kansas Jim)
Friends or Enemies
A Wanderin' Man

Joyce Johnson
Christmas Guests
Moonlight Gathering

Laverna B. Johnson
At the Front: Remembering Grandma and Cowboy Music
The Fence That Fenced Them Out

Thomas Vaughan "Melancholy" Jones
Bar Fly
Tornado

David Kelley
It's All Behind Us
 The Bandit and the Hog (for T. R. Stephenson)

Nick Kissner
A Word About Charlie
The Line Rider

eric lee
For Tales Untold... (for Del Warren Livingston) 
...not-quite-last words of a cowboy

Ron Loof
The Last of the Herd
The Old Cowboy

McCloud (aka Davey Lee George)
Canyon Madness
Sights and Sounds along the Trail

Bill McKay
Last Dance
The Waddie

 Slim McNaught

Rod's Pinpoint of Light for Rod Nichols
The Snubbin' Post
Those Cowboys Who Came Before
It's Fall Again

Denise McRea
Irrigating...Why I Do It
Plain Old Red
Spring Days

Janalee Martin
The Long Rope
Close to Timber
Forever

Jean Mathisen see (Jean A. Haugen)

Mag Mawhinney 
Winter Range
Those Who Have Gone Before
Christmas on the Homestead

Janice Mitich
Line Camp (in the Cowboy Memories project)
The Fluteway

Mike Moore
20 Some Odd Years Ago
21st Century Cowboy

Ed Nesselhuf 
Autumn Harvest
Edges
Child of the Open

Dale E. Page
The Endless Chase
Brush Poppers
At the End of My Rope
Lodgepole Lullaby

Francine Roark Robison
When Summer Days Have Shortened
I See Wild Horses Running Free
New-born Baby Calf

Charlene Schilling
The Ballad of Jo-Ann Lee
I'm Not An All-Round Cowboy

Lloyd Shelby
Devil Jack
Rainman

Brad Smith (see French Camp Red)

Kip Sorlie

Who We Are
Rings (for Rod Nichols)
Rope
Unstruck
A Hug
The Rhyme Survives
Sleds

Ezra Spur
Where the Blue Stem Grows
That Old Mousy Cow

Hal Swift 
Collector's Item
Boot Repair Made Easy
Country DJ
Bovine Cowboy Poet

Stan Tixier
Mustangs and Moonshine
The Golden Spike

Roger Traweek
A Cowboy Operation
Strong Medicine

Tex Tumbleweed
Generation Gaps
He Listened with His Heart
The Fork in the Road

Smoke Wade

Trailing the Herd
A Change of Season
Leather Gods

Cora Wood

Chester
untitled

Byrd Woodward
Loss (for Colen Sweeten and his family) 
Trophy Boots
One Night on th' Prairie

John Yaws
Things That I Have Learned
A Cowboy's Life

Muriel Zeller
She Did Not Love Change

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Keith L. Adams
Tribute to Jon Pentz
This Old House
If a Cowboy's Boots Could Talk

Dennis Adkins
Behind the Chutes

August 'Ausprey' Adler
Remnants of a Cowboy

G. Casey Allen
The Texas Outlaw (for T. R. Stevenson)

Charlotte Allgood-McCoy
The Speckled Pup
Rodeo and Me

Rose Mary Allmendinger (1939-2009)
Fat 'n Pink
Good night, dear Heart ... as we part ...

Lucille Almquist
Sounds in the Night

David Althouse
Christmas Out Here
Christmas Night in Big Elk Country

Gloria Anderlini
A Wooly Yarn

Kyle Anders
Annie

Jim R. Anderson
In a Way
They Call Him a Cowboy, with Cody Anderson

John Anderson
Short Grass Hills
In the Country

Keith K. Anderson
Trailhead Rodeo
Johnnie's Hairpiece

John Andrus
The Ballad of the Prairie Posse

Sally Learned Antram
Sagebrush in Your Veins  

Ross Christian Arvidson
Poem for Coyotes

Esther Ash
Stuck Again

Robert C. Atkin
Pilgrim
Eagle Dancer

Jason Avants
Rodeo
Headin' To Arizona

Jennifer Bain
Cowboy Heaven

Barbara G. Baker
The Sardine Virgin
The Same Moon

Nathan A. Baker
 Grandpa's Mule

J. C. Baldwin
Daddy's Farm

Gary Bauder
Stringin' Fence
Rainbow, the Mustang

Chuck Beggs
Western Swing

C. W. (Charles) Bell
After the Gather
Boots

Christine Echeverria Bender
Oysters of the Rocky Mountains
There in the Shadow

Christine Gillette Benrud
The Last Cowboy
Bull Fright

Sidney M. "Sid" Benson
A Bare Facts Situation
We Called Him Vinegaroon

Lavern "Straw" Berry
Selling Off the Place
A Christmas Ride/Jinglin' Bells

Risky Betts
The Organic and the Yuppie
Top Hand

Ivan L Biehn
The Least of These

Doris Bircham
When Jake Got Sick

Aspen Black
Hoofprints on the Clouds
A Letter Home

Bill Black
Courage is Easy
Determination

Mark Black
Poets of the Cowboy Persuasion
The New Ole Grey Mare

Billy Blackman
Trimming Flash

Sherri Blaylock
Stop and Smell the Flowers
My Job

Tony Blisard
I Am
Early Morn

Paul Bliss
The Ranch
Where Love Flowers Grow

Pat Boilesen
Goin' To Grass One More Time
Stallion Canyon

Mike Boothe
Ode to Four-wheeler Wranglers
True Grit and Glory

Shelby Borek
For Better or Worse
Rodeo Dad

Alex Bottesini-Pullin
A Horse with Two Graves
Gelding

George Bourbeau
The Gift
Musings

Kathy Bowman
Five Alarm Fire

Victoria Boyd
Scopin’ the Bosque
The Little Bay Mare

Robert Boyle
Wild Horses

Larry Bradfield, Jane Moore, Michael L. Moore
A Bronc Buster's Epiphany

Shauntal Bradley
We Remember Him

Almeda Bradshaw
Abide

Dan Bradshaw
I'll Be Go to Hell

Gary Brandt
Somewhere In Montana

Dana Brannon
Buck

Doug Brewer
Sagacious Saul
Cowboy's Lament

Braden Brian
Cowboy's Ego

Caib Brian
That Old Fence

Ron Brinegar
Where the Angels Tipped their Wings
Two Wolves

Brandon Broadbent
King of the County Fair

J. Carl Brooksby
Lonesome
Gatherin' Desert Shrimp

Laura Finlay Brown
Cowboy Angel
Mollie

Ron W. Brown
Punch

Sharon Brown
Night of the Rodeo Queen
Hand on the Wheel

Terry Brown
Bobbie Supreme

Nancy G. Brundrett
Ballad of the Mighty One

Jay Bryan
Co-Existing
It Seems To Me To Be As I Now See the Things I Think I See

Scott Hill Bumgardner
Gathered Up
Saddle Knowledge (Only A Cowboy Knows), with Rod Nichols
My First Rodeo

Jack Burdette
Jest Another Morning
The Wrangler's Christmas

Art Burdic
Cows
Ole Red

Debbie Burdic
The Evils of John Barleycorn
The Dust Devil Ballet

Lathum Burk
Great Granddad T.C

Jeff Burkhart
A Cowhand's Prayer
The Cowhand Calls Again

Geoff Burkman
Rhymin' the Cowboy Way

Lanny Joe Burnett
Things Only a Cowboy Knows, with Carl Condray
We Pointed Them North

Marleen Bussma
Riding with Memories

Lana Calonico
Guardian Angel

Marty Campbell
A Real Moustache

Leslie Cline-Carbah
Cowboy Birthday Toast

Jim Cardwell
Average Drive to Elko
Saddle Pal
Son of California

David L. Carlton
Longhorn's Tail
Gates
Cattle Drive

Michael Carlton
Palace Hotel

Marvin Carnagey
Boy With a "Pie-Eatin'" Grin

Sandy Carpenter
Years Mount

Yvonne Carpenter
Lamb’s-Quarters and Devil’s-Claws

Timothy Carrier
The Working Cowboy
The Outlaw

Val Carter
A Bear Behind

Jim Cathey
Headin' to the Dublin Rodeo
My Ol' Daddy Always Sez

Clem Caufield
Prayin Sites
The Crib Master

Jesus Cervantes
I Seen John Wayne

John C. Chamberlin
Tim, David, and Clay (for Clay Lindley)
Environmentalism

Linda Kandelin Chambers
Amos

TW Chambers
Silent Vigil
Last Respects

Kathy Chandler
Passages

Janice Chapman
God's Cowboy
Old Time Cowboys

April Chase
Company

Mickee Cheek
Sandhills Seasons
Except That

Lola Chiantaretto
Cowgirl
Tom's Bad Luck

Toni Chisamore
Hip 202

Jesse Chisholm
I Do Not Lead a Cowboy's Life

Steve Christian
Days Like This
Cowboy Knowledge at a City Boy College

J. R. Claiborn
Flaming Beans
Meet My Maker

Tammy Clardy
Turnin' Profit

Allen Clark
Me and the Boy
Posthole Promenade

Craig Claver
Grandad's Summer School
The Bee

Maureen Clifford
Brush Off the Dust
Goin' Piggin'

Stephen Cloud
Thanks from Cow Camp

Bob Coker
Yearning for My Home
The Canyon

Bobby Cohoon
Roses are Red
The Drought of 1859

Peggy Coleman
The Ride
Heroes and Cowboys

Scott Collins
Gunslinger

V. June Blevins Collins (1916-2010)
Night Before Christmas
Be Happy, Buck-Appy

Jesse Colt
Cowboy Self Taught
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

Steve Conroy
Grandpa's Will
The Photograph

John A. "Ringo" Cook
Cowboy
Ridin Fence

Barrie Cordingley
How The West Was Won
Old Blue

Julia Cox-Wilson
Wild and Young  

Phil Crawford
The Bronc Rider
Leader of the Herd

Van Criddle
At His Own Pace
'Tis in the Spring
Merry Christmas 2010

Lynn M. Croke
Honey Jo Dandy  

Clark Crouch
Five Senses
On the Other Side
Lost Love

Harold Crow
Cowboys Don't Skate
Miss Laura

Gary Crum
Deputy Sam Hobart's Eulogy
Orn'ry Gnaw Bone, 1898

Jenn Crundwell (see Jenn Jacula)

Brad Curtis
Ol' Pep

Jim Dalglish
The Creation of Yodeling Bob
Please Tell Us a Cowboy Poem

Suzann Darnall
The Night Before Christmas...Texas Style

Bill Davies
Morning
The Long Day
Paradise

Shane Davis
The Wild Horse Race

David Dawson
Legacy
Cowboy Friend

Geff Dawson
One More Chance
The Wake-Up Call

John Day
The Cowboy

Bobby Dean
So Long

Louise K. Dean
Just a Dance

David J. Delaney
Old Life Dreams

Ted E. Dennison
What a Cowboy Is... 
Headwear Impaired

Harvey Derrick
Chapel on the Prairie

Ronald J. DeSantis
The End of the Trail
The Cowboy Way

Lynn DeTurk
Considered Regrets

Debby Dever
Sigh of the Stallion
Three Amigos

Catherine Lilbit Devine
Letters Home
Line Cabin Christmas
The Cowboy Way in a tribute to Rod Nichols

Lawrence N. DiCostanzo
Cowboy Christmas

Ab Douglas Driediger
The Lost Sorrel

Gail Dudley
A Cowgirl's Dream

Will Dudley
Dreams of Long Ago
A Cowboy Farewell (with Diane Tribitt)

Evelyn "Dr. Mimi" Dunham
White Cloud and Pappa Little Joe

Tim Dunnam
Cutter Bob
Steer Crazy

Diane Durrill
The Last Big Ride
Unique Mule for Sale

Bandy Earl with Chad Peer
Grandpa Lee (for Lee Earl)

A Flash in the Sand
The Jelly Roll  

Johnny D. Eaton
Legends or Lies
Cowboy's Prayer

 Dixie Eckhoff
Jake's Secret
The Roper

Janet Eggleston
A Perfect Fit
Through the Eyes of a Child

Maurice Ehrhardt
The Big Plastic Bull

Tony Engberg
Just Another Mornin'  

Fred Engel
Attention Vegetarians!

Glen Enloe
The Cowboy from Cutter Bill’s, a tribute to Rod Nichols
Homestead
The Third Horse by the Trees

G. Don Ensminger
The Cowgirl Called "The Bride"
My Dashboard Hula Girl

Jan Erickson
That Little Utah Home (for Larry Sandberg)
St. Nic's Beginnings, Part 1
Christmas in Logan 1952

Terri Kirby Erickson
Oak Tree

Heather Erwin
Sherwin Erwin, the Windsucking Yearlin'
My Green Ford Truck

Pete Evanson
Little Cowboys
A Hard Life in the High Country

Blanche Evridge
Me and Him and Lonzo
Flat-Top Momma

Joe Fabey
Rodeo Arena on Templeton Gap Road
Wyoming State Prison—Closed

Meredith Fahey
A Cowboy Is Made of...

 Slim Farnsworth
The Tale of Bat Macaw
Interlude

Lonnie R. Faubion
Memories
Stampede

Dan Faught
Bankin with an Old Cowboy

Kenny Feidler
Farewell to Heroes

Sherrod L. Fielden
Real Cowboy
B Western Cowboys

John B. Fincher
Cowboy Part
Cloning

Doc Finstuen
Cowboy Have a Care

Dennis Fischer
My Partner Too

Justin Flowers
Old Cowboy Memories

Edward Foley
A Call to the Past

Richard Boyd Fowler
Of Cattle, Horses and Land

JA Fox
A Good Idea at the Time
Murphy's Law

Rachel Fox
The Ballad of the Kansas Cowboy  
Cowboy High

George Foy
I Hear a Guitar

Mike Francis
Long Day

Monte Franks
Cowboy For Hire
Forever in the Saddle

Kay Frenzer
Mule Train
The Miner

Ron Gale
Ol' Curly
A Dog Named Cat
Calf Ropin' at Barhead in the Rain

Ken Gardner
Sleepin' in the Bunkhouse

Jim Garman
Hey!!
Pulling Their Weight

John Gentry
Cowboy Slam
Cowboy Movies

Stephen Gesé
Simple Pleasures

Joseph Getling
The Ornery Lookers

Dan Giallombardo 
Seven untitled poems (now nine) 
Council Fires  

Tommy Gibbs
Makin' a Sweep

Bill Gibson
Big Bend

Kay Gibson
Rain Crow
Ghost Town

Greg Gilbert
A Cowboy Christmas Prayer

Peter Gilchrist
The Bullrider
Wildhorse Camp

 Tom Gilliland
The Way It Is

Molly K. Gilmore
His Saddle in the Hall
Just Like My Dad

Rebecca Glover
The Wild One

Sharon Gonzales
Camp Joni
Ranch Rig

Jack Goodman
Newborn Calf
The Lawn Chair

John A. Goodner
Wire & Men

Jim Gough

Where Are They Now?
"My Grandad Was a Cowboy" story about Judge Lysius Gough

Kathy S. and Phil Grady
The Ride
Horse's Eulogy

Hatch Graham
Blaze Wins the Race

Tim Graham
Christmas Time
The Wire Gap

R.S. “Scott” Gregory
The Final Gate

Joe Haberstroh 
Wanna-be

Steve Hagerman
Cowboy's Lament

Candy Wuzza Dandy
Candy 'n tha Hell's Angel

Roy Hale
I'm a Bull Rider

Richard R. "Dick" Hall
In October...In Wyoming...
Uphill and A’gin the Wind

Beau Hamel
Cattle Call Language

Tom Hanshew
Linecamp Cowboy
Eyes of a Cowboy

Karen Hargis
Good Fellows
Puppy Love

Jo Hargrave
Dawn

Diane Harper
The Ride
Cow Called Hope

Gene, Roy & Dale
Tribute to Joe Harris

Lisa Rumsey Harris
Two Windows
Saving Al

Murray Hartin 
The Best Bloke That I Know

Kim Harvard
The Cowboy

Lynn Harwell
The Dry Side
Storm on Route 66

Skylar Harwood
Shoeing School
Tales Never Told

David Haskell
Forty-Mile-An-Hour Alfalfa

Marvin Hass
When Creation Was Young
 Five Buckle Business

Donna Hatton
A Sacred Encounter
In the Canyon of the Conquistador

Bill Havins
Chapped Lips

Jim Hawkins
How Roanie Broke My Farrier
The Water Truck Blues

"Doc" Dale Hayes
Summer Pasture
The Day Old Ned Learned to Fly

Greg Hayward
Cowboy Casual

Jessica Hedges
History in the Barn
Leo
Ghosts of Cavalry
Milkshake Finale

Buzz Helfert
Just One More
Bad Habits and Good Health

Buck Helton
Cookie's Black Iron Skillet
Keeper of the Fire

Jessica Lynn Helms
Cowboy Inventory
Cowhorse at Heart

Rex Henderson
A Kindred Spirit
Cowboy Jed

Terry Henderson
Christmas Memories
A Rancher's Blessing

Lynne Hendrickson (Lucas)
Savin' the Herd  
Ridin' to Do

C. Duane Hensley
An Old Yeller Dog

Linda Hermes
Destination Unknown
A Good Life

Joe Herrington
Memories
The Rat Traps

Tex Hewitt
Still Roundin' 'Em Up
Signin' On

Bill Hickman
Cuttin' In
The Bay Mare
The Sound

Dennis Higgins
The Ballad of Big Nick

J. L. Hill
The Buck on the Wall
Cowboy

Adam Hilliard
Love
Walnut Springs, Tx

Tamara Hillman
Eyein' the Bull
Advice from a Cowboy's Wife
Bunkhouse Christmas
Cowboys & Cell Phones

Don Hilmer
Rusty Barbed Wire
The Old Snubbin' Post

 Robert L. Hinshaw
Brandin' Time at th' Triple "T"

Marlene Hitt
The Last Grizzly of the Tujunga Hills, 1916

Lew Hofmann
The Old Homestead

Pamela R. Hoge
Rust in Peace

Stephen Hollen
Summer Storm

Willard Hollopeter
Over the Belt Cowboy
Going Back
Joe

Rose Ann Holomon
The Place for the Passer-by

Donny Lewis Hopper
True Cowboy

Eldon Housley
Jake's First Big Transaction

Dave Howell
Miss Adventure

Bill Hubbard
Bad Bull
 Balin Wire

Rusty Hudelson
Roy

H. D. Hughes
The Room
Belle

Joyce Badgley Hunsaker
Old Cowboy's Lament
The Whittler

Bobbie Hunter
The Dance
Cowboy Logic and Mistletoe

Haran Hunter
Straight from the Heart

Ken Hunter
King of the Rodeo

J. S. Hurst
Goin' to Town
A Christmas to Remember
Bronc Ridin'

Colonel John M. Hutcheson
The Fast Elk

S E. (Stanley) Hutchinson
An Old Friend
Only in a Cowboy's World

Margo Imes
Country Road Rage
New Things  

Keven Inman
Dreams

Brad "Lucky Irish
The Cowboy

Robert (Bud) Isaacs
Help Me Be Like Dad

Judith Iverson
Honeymoon Trail
Blue Rocket

Jenn Jacula
She Used to be a Cowgirl 
His Daughter's Rain

Billy James
I Stand Alone  
Cowboys and Horses

Mark Jarmon
A Man Called Banjo

Marcy Jarvis
Onnagata
I Dug up an Old Cowpoke Once

Alyssa Jayne
My Uncle and the Vicious Rooster Attack

Michael Jeffreys
Her Last

D. T. Johannsen
Cowboyography
Cowboy Mornin'

Judith E. "JJ" Johnston
39 Years of Tradition
Ranchers Wife

Louella Jones
Tribute to J. D. Kilgore, a Cowboy
Pappy's Fiddle

Sue Jones
The Silver Spurs  
Cyberspace Cowboy

Frank Jordan
Yeah, That Too (story)

Tim Juhlin
John Ware Epic
Nice to Own  

Dan Kantak
A Cowboy is a Man Who Likes His Spaces Wide
The Great Divide

William J. Karnowski
Two Cowboys

Ginger Karns
Wintertime Romp
The Vow

Tim Kauffroath
Range Rhymin'

Mary A. Gallagher Kaufman
Are There Horses in Heaven?
Saddle Fever

Ed Keenan
Thankful Cowboy
One Shot

Diamond Doug Keith
The Day Leonard Had a Sale
Cowboys, Heroes, and Horses

Spencer Keralis
The Rabbit Sellers
Delivery

Tom Kerlin
Shorty's Last Christmas

Mark Kerr
The Top Hand

Ivan Kershner
The Ranch Sale

Eva Kilgore
Understood

Tylene Kincy
The Endless Prairie

Charles D. King
Coldwater Slim  

Clifton King
Saturday Auction

Daryl King
The Rodeo Princess
People of the Land

Lisa King
Old Hank
Real Cowboys Don't Wear Cotton!

Tom King
With Me Forever
Holy Smoke!

Joe Bob Kinnaman
The Pipe Fence Range
The Cowboy Poet

Jim Kitchens
The Ride
Grand Daddy's Swing

Susie Knight
Memories of Doris
Here to Remember

Jennifer Koch
What It's All About

Layne Konkel
We Are the Exalted

Barb Kopietz 
Slow Dance

Dave "Kid" Kornblum
All-American Roadmap
The Horse Divorce

Ryan Krantz
Barrel Racers
The Gumsull

Joe Kunkel
One Saturday in December
They Call Me "Bilateral Fractures"

J. D. Kunze
The Sky Ain't the Limit
Mutton Bustin'

Cindy Ladage
Heading South
To Make the Crop

Ron Lambert
16 Hands Closer to God
Christmas Wink
Heavenly Wind

R. E. Lamle, Jr. 
Tribute to Gerald

William F. "Wild Bill" Lane
God Willing and the Well Don't Run Dry
The Rockies

L. M. Larson
My Sweet Beth
The Spooky Ol' Mare

S. Lane Law
Texas Clover
Papa

Byrum Lee 
Ain't Givin' Up Hope

Nicole Legerski
Bessy
The Vaccination

Patti Leininger
Future Cowboy Poets
Dear Santa

Alan Lemke
The Christmas Star

Darcy R. Lewis
Grandmother

Daron Little
Long Rope and a Faraway Look
Old Cowpuncher

Craig Libby
Haywire in the Fall

El Lippard
Cowboy Prayer

Uncle Jeb's Farm
Gentle on My Mind

Bert Lloyd
Me and Ben and a Dog Named Blue
On Honor and Courage

Marianne McNeil Logan 
Code of Heritage

Mary "Kat" Logan
Burwell

Tex Low
Sir Prize

Lynne Lucas (see Lynne Hendrickson)

Ricky Lummus
The Hat
The Pickup Man

Gary "Old Buckaroo" Lundblad
Just as Long
Who's Gonna Get Your Leggins

Lane Luttrell
Lance Paul and I
Thoughts on Cowboys
The Red Horse

Kristen Lynch
The Long Ride Home

Mike Lyons
The Boatman

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