WILD DUCK EGGS HATCHED BY CLUCK-HEN
WILD DUCK EGGS HATCHED BY CLUCK-HEN
WHAT KIND OF FOWL AM I?/MIXED-UP KID/SCRAMBLING EGGS
One boring day at Grandparents farm, a lad climbed up to a...
Grandma’s Pet Goat, Mr. Quirky!
PERTURBED BY A PET/NO HUMILITY & NO TRANQUILITY
I asked Mother, of all the farm animals she'd met
Could she describe one as her favorite pet?
She told of her...
WATCHING SNOW BANKS GET HIGHER IN ‘49
WATCHING SNOW BANKS GET HIGHER IN ‘49
DID YOU RANK THAT SNOWBANK (BY THE YARD LIGHT)?
I listened to this rancher’s tale of woe
Regarding the...
Tea Time Has a Modern Name (in Today’s Terminology)
-By Orv Alveshere -
At the top of the stairs was a Tea Can.
It wasn’t green, aqua, taupe or tan.
A special color, that one...
QUIRKY, MOM’S PETULANT PET GOAT
-By Orv Alveshere-family's long train ride to coastal town Wilmington *Gramp's heart trouble Gram raised Mom and girlsGramps pulled Mom from ocean by hair...
UN-RODE RAGE
By Orv Alveshere
trailered from an auctiona stunning muscular overo...
Three Plows, Two Plowboys and a Phantom
-By Orv Alveshere-
ILLUSION, CONFUSION, COLLUSION OR SOLUTION? A story's going 'round, about guys who've been 'round; A grain stubble field, many times, plowing the...
DON’T TRAIN A HORSE TO JUMP
DON'T TRAIN A HORSE TO JUMP
LANDING HEADS OR TAILS?
Mem'ries, illusions linger, events gone bad, a pair,
Horse and rider have parted company in mid-air.
Sans...
Knee-High to a Dapple Gray Team
TOO SMALL TO PICK EGGS?Some hens laid their eggs in the horse manger;But to gather the eggs, would pose a danger.I was knee-high to...
FIRST GRADE ANTICIPATION AND EXPECTATIONS
FIRST GRADE ANTICIPATION AND EXPECTATIONS
By Orv Alveshere
GREAT DEPRESSION AND DUSTY ‘30’S HEATS UP
On a very dry August day the scorching harvest sun bore down...
COWS GONE MISSING? (OXY-MORON?)
COWS GONE MISSING? (OXY-MORON?)
IT BE-HOOVED THEM TO SEARCH
A milky way fib, that “A cow jumped over the moon,”
Udderly impossible! Gravity? ...
IDEA OF SKUNKS NEXT DOOR STUNK
-By Orv Alveshere-Faded red grainery ninety years old has tilted,Harvest grain sold in town so it may feel it's been jilted.Pockmarked from errant baseballs...
THRESHING MEMORIES: WORKING AND SOCIALIZING
By Orv Alveshere
THRESHING CREWS: HUMANS AND HORSESSome threshers might have been to the point of sleepwalkAs teams of horses pulled hayracks from shock...
STRANGE VOICES: WERE THEY SPYING MARTIANS?
STRANGE VOICES: WERE THEY SPYING MARTIANS?
VOICES CAME WAFTING OVER THE HILL
It must have been in July, June or May.
Such a strange tale I heard...
CHRISTMAS TITLE
CHRISTMAS TITLE
By Orv Alveshere
-GREEN SCENE GIVERS-
I have Christmas mem’ries where parents gave each, one special gift.
Paying for land and livestock, it was a world...
SOME HORSE DAYS SURPASS OTHERS
-By Orv Alveshere-A Beautiful Horse and Children's DayA bustling 1800’s cowtown had been lovingly restored.Now a summer highlight, they won 2007 Visitor’s Choice Award.Nestled...
Knee-High to a Dapple Gray Team
Knee-High to a Dapple Gray Team
TOO SMALL TO PICK EGGS?
Some hens laid their eggs in the horse manger;
But to gather the eggs, would pose...
HISTORY LIVED AND SPOKEN HERE
-By Orv Alveshere-
COVERED WAGON TRACKS IN THE SANDS OF TIME, 1895
“Horses and covered wagon brought me here,” the octogenarian said.
Determined, he staked a...
PLOWING WITH HORSES: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
-By Orv Alveshere-
HARNESSED UP FOR OLD TIMES SAKEA Country Gentleman looked longingly at his newly purchased horse-drawn plow.He had practiced driving his team. He...
ECCENTRIC EQUINE EXPELLED
HORSING AROUND IN SCHOOLA lady bought a very gorgeous horseAnd she paid for a ‘finishing school’ courseThen she trailered him many miles awayWhere his...
Welcome to Orv’s Cowboy Poetry!
Welcome to Orv's Cowboy Poetry section where you will find newly released poems by our resident Cowboy Poet Orv Alveshere. Orv reminisces about his...
DROVE TRUCK HOME ALONE, ONCE
-By Orv Alveshere-
Five-Year-Old at Mid-America, at Mid-CenturyA rural Dakota farmer bought a small John Deere combine; Paid a bundle of cash for that early functional...
