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Below are  the most recent poems from the following poets, in alphabetical order, within these categories:   On this page: Lariat Laureate Past Lariat Laureates Lariat Laureate Finalists More Folks' Poems   On page one: Classic Cowboy Poetry Honored Guests   On page two: Special Featured Poems, Prose, and Lyrics Singers and Songwriters Continuing Features Poetry in Special Features Elsewhere: Full index of all poems alphabetical by poet A - L M - Z We display the titles for at least the two most recent poems accepted for each poet.  There is a full index of all poems here and all of a poet's poems are posted on that poet's page at the BAR-D. Most poems here are entered in our Lariat Laureate Competition -- but not those of our invited Honored Guests and or our Special Featured Guests.   There are these special collections, also added to regularly: "Strays," additional classic cowboy poetry Current Lariat Laureate and 8 Seconds' Poems Poems about Cowboy Poetry Poems for Solemn Occasions Poems about Cowboy Dads and Granddads Poems about Cowboy Moms and Grandmoms Poems about Elko Cowboy Love Poetry Poems about Chuckwagons and Such Poems for Halloween Poems for Veterans Day Poems for Thanksgiving Christmas Cowboy  Poetry Cowboy Toasts and other special collections, listed here. If you want to know when we post a new Newsletter, you can subscribe (free, of course) to our email news.  We add news and poems just about daily, and you can find what's new between newsletters right here.

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

There is a full index of all poems here and all of a poet's poems are posted on that poet's page here at the BAR-D. 

 

Ken Cook

Grandpa
The Conversation
Come with Me
Revel in the Journey
Ridin' With Georgie...I wish

 

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

 

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

 

 

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)
Call of the North
Kin to the Cowboy
Workin' a Verbal Herd  (essay)
Wounded or On Writing Cowboy Poetry
Tombless

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

Cathy Brian

Grandma and the Outlaw
Real Peace
The Day the Cows Go Out
Docking the Lambs

Gail T. Burton
The Economist
Just Celebrating

Daniel Bybee

Propane Tank Cowboys
Old Jiggs
The Outfit He Wore

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

Backward Boots
Tribute to Louis A. Carle

Nona Kelley Carver
The Words of Bruce Kiskaddon
Daughter of the Prairie  
Loan Insurance
The Wild Horses

Byrl Keith Chadwell

Cowboy Credentials
It's Different Than it Sounds
The Last Buffalo

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

David J. Dague
Grandpa's Champion
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
Jack Sprague
Verne and Me and a Brindle Bull

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

Jean A. (Mathisen) Haugen
Powder River Bath
Wild Pride

Michael Henley
The Promise
At His Own Pace
Rules
Packin' Sammy
Things I Lean On
Home on Range

Stuart Hooker
Ever Seen a Cowboy
All My Cowboys Were Girls

Allan Horton
Pinto
A Cowboy Joke

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

Joyce Johnson
A Cowboy's Christmas Eve
Christmas Guests

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

Thomas Vaughan "Melancholy" Jones
Bar Fly
Tornado

Micah Lacey
The Last of the Old Time Lawmen
The Shack

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
End of the Ride
Tom Cat Wreck

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 Thoroughbred Filly
The Bear Facts
A Toast to Friendship

Francine Roark Robison
When Summer Days Have Shortened
I See Wild Horses Running Free

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)
And Still the Story Grows
Judgment
Rope
From an Old Wood Chair?

Ezra Spur
Where the Blue Stem Grows
That Old Mousy Cow

Hal Swift 
Anvil Chorus
Horse Habits
A Word from Our Sponsors
Cheaters Never Prosper

Stan Tixier
Mustangs and Moonshine
The Golden Spike

Roger Traweek
A Cowboy Operation
Strong Medicine

Tex Tumbleweed
Generation Gaps
He Listened with His Heart

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
Drouth
Things That I Have Learned

Muriel Zeller
She Did Not Love Change

 

A-L below
M-Z on the next page

 

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

Laura Aden
Sands Revisited
The Apache Trail

Dennis Adkins
Behind the Chutes

Jane Aherne
The Man

 B. Calhoun Alcorn
 Arizona Match Race
Thor

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

Charlotte Allgood-McCoy
The Speckled Pup
Rodeo and Me

Rose Mary Allmendinger
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

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

Jason Avants
Rodeo
Headin' To Arizona

Jennifer Bain
Cowboy Heaven

Barbara G. Baker
The Sardine Virgin
The Same Moon

Larry Baker
A Cowboy's Life

Nathan A. Baker
 Grandpa's Mule

J. C. Baldwin
Daddy's Farm

Suzanne Ball
Papa
That Old Sound

Rose Bardin
Daddy's Little Cowboy Girl
The Cowgirl Way

Gary Bauder
Stringin' Fence
Rainbow, the Mustang

Dianne Baumann
The Cowboy's Last Ride
Why Santa Ain't a Cowboy

Jill Beeken
Days Gone By

Robert Beene
The Little Roan Mare
A Cowboy's Request

Chuck Beggs
Western Swing

C. W. (Charles) Bell
Cowboy Christmas Play
Bad Winter, Good Spring

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

Alex Bottesini-Pullin
A Horse with Two Graves
Gelding

George Bourbeau
The Gift
Musings

Victoria Boyd
Scopin’ the Bosque
The Little Bay Mare

Robert Boyle
Wild Horses

Braden Brian
Cowboy's Ego

Shauntal Bradley
We Remember Him

Dan Bradshaw
I'll Be Go to Hell

Gary Brandt
Somewhere In Montana

Dana Brannon
Buck

Doug Brewer
Sagacious Saul
Cowboy's Lament

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
The Cowboy I Can't Forget
Cowboy Angel

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

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

Jack Burdette
Sunflowers on the Slopes
He Didn't Aim To Be My Friend

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

Lana Calonico
Guardian Angel

Marty Campbell
A Real Moustache

Leslie Cline-Carbah
Cowboy Birthday Toast

Jim Cardwell
Average Drive to Elko
Saddle Pal

David L. Carlton
Hard Times
Cook
Longhorn's Tail

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

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

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

Stephen Cloud
Thanks from Cow Camp

Bob Coker
Yearning for My Home
The Canyon

Bobby Cohoon
Roses are Red
The Drought of 1859

Elizabeth Cole
Here's Lookin' at You Cowboy Blue

Peggy Coleman
The Ride
Heroes and Cowboys

Scott Collins
Gunslinger

Steve Collins
Uncompahgre Spring

V. June Blevins Collins
Stan's Stone Boatin' Steer
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

Nathan Cornell
End of the Day

Michael H. Cotton
C. C. (Bull) Rider

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

Carroll Crispin
Old Red the Outlaw Horse
Progress

Lynn M. Croke
Honey Jo Dandy  

Clark Crouch
Five Senses
On the Other Side

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)

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

Robert Dall
I've Never Been a Cowboy

Suzann Darnall
The Night Before Christmas...Texas Style

Bill Davies
Morning
The Long Day

Louise Davis
The Old Cowboy Hat

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

Gina Dean
A Lone Wolf

Louise K. Dean
Just a Dance

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

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

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

T. C. Edington
Tribute to Louis L'Amour

Janet Eggleston
Eight-Second Dreams
A Quarter's Worth

Maurice Ehrhardt
The Big Plastic Bull

Tony Engberg
Just Another Mornin'  

Fred Engel
Attention Vegetarians!

Glen Enloe
Campfire Christmas Eve
The Cowboy from Cutter Bill’s, a tribute to Rod Nichols
The Waxed Coat Man

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

Micah Travis Epley
Round Up Time
Land for Sale

Jan Erickson
The Tail of Ol' Bud
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

John B. Fincher
Cowboy Part
Cloning

Doc Finstuen
Cowboy Have a Care

Dennis Fischer
My Partner Too

Mike Flood
Cowboy Life

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

Monte Franks
Cowboy For Hire
Forever in the Saddle

Kay Frenzer
Mule Train
The Miner

Vaughn Fritts
Black Bart

Ron Gale
The Cowhand

Sean Garcia
Yukon

Ken Gardner
Sleepin' in the Bunkhouse

Jim Garman
Hey!!
Pulling Their Weight

John Gentry
Cowboy Slam
Cowboy Movies

Robert George
Waycross Saloon
One Pair of Twos

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

Rudy Gonzales
Poetic Justice
Sometimes You Just Can't Please 'em

Sharon Gonzales
Camp Joni
Ranch Rig

Jack Goodman
Feeding Cows After Thanksgiving Dinner
An Old Cow Rope

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

Jeff Hall
Droving Days are Done

Mae Haney
Buffalo Ladder

Tom Hanshew
Linecamp Cowboy
Eyes of a Cowboy

Karen Hargis
Good Fellows
Puppy Love

Jo Hargrave
Dawn

Joshua Harling
The Real Ringers

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

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

Buzz Helfert
Just One More
Bad Habits and Good Health

Buck Helton
A Cowboy's Memories...
Cookie's Black Iron Skillet

Jessica Lynn Helms
Cowboy Inventory
Cowhorse at Heart

Rex Henderson
A Kindred Spirit
Cowboy Jed

Terry Henderson
 Cursin' the Yearlin's
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
It's Eatin' Time
"Ker-Blam" Good Horse

Dennis Higgins
The Ballad of Big Nick

J. L. Hill
The Buck on the Wall
Cowboy

Adam Hilliard
Love
Walnut Springs, Tx

Tamara Hillman
Black Cloud
Eyein' the Bull

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

David Hodges
Are They Gone for Good?

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

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

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

Michael Idlewine
Feisty Forces

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

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

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

Tom Kerlin
Shorty's Last Christmas

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

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

Shannon Langevin
Painting the Heavens

J. Levi Lapp
Heaven's Horse

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

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

Mike Lyons
The Boatman

Trent Lytle
A Young Hand's Dream
What is a Cowboy?

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Classic Cowboy Poetry

Honored Guests

 

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Special Featured Poems, Prose, and Lyrics

Singers and Songwriters

Continuing Features

Poetry in Special Features

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