Tag: cowboy poetry
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...
Haul Some Heat into the Town Hall
-By Orv Alveshere-
LITERALLY A COLD SHOOTING BASKETBALL NIGHT The grade school basketball team got in two cars and cruised down the road. That energetic...
Tribute to World War II Veterans
-By Orv Alveshere-
The Hired Man Wore Army Clothes The Olive-Green Undershirt“The war, the danger and fighting was getting old,”Were some of the Army stories our...
SIGHTLESS MAN TUNED OUR PIANO
-By Orv Alveshere-INTENTLY WATCHING A TALENTED PROFESSIONALWe’d unhitched horses. A car drove into our yard at noon.The driver asked us “If our piano was...
RURAL YOUTH MADE SUMMER PLANS
-By Orv Alveshere-ENAMORING EVENTS AND PERHAPS SOME TEARSOn the last day at small country schools there was a celebrationBuzzing with laughter. Most would return....
Muddy Creek Saloon was Robbed
Muddy Creek Saloon was Robbed By Mounted Thieves Dressed in Black
Five riders paced nervously ‘round the bend;
Now, what message would their black attire send?
The...
FIRST CATTLE DOG WAS MY BUDDY
FIRST CATTLE DOG WAS MY BUDDY
-BY ORV ALVESHERE-
YES, I DID KNOW “JACK”
Some guy argued with an acid tongue and gave a personal attack.
I was...
Will July 4 Fire Go Down to the Wire?
Will July 4 Fire Go Down to the Wire?
By Orv Alveshere
THREE-STORY BUILDING BUILT TO THEIR SPECS IN 1912
A homesteading couple had built a farm...
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? ...
KNIFE SHARPER THAN MY WITS
KNIFE SHARPER THAN MY WITS
Never in my spry young life
Expect to create a perfect knife.
I sawed a two-inch sapling branch
From the tree stand on...
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...
Making Wooden Christmas Toys
Making Wooden Christmas Toys
I’M CALLED A WHAT?
Some of the fondest memories and joys
Are of constructing wooden Christmas toys.
“Open Your Heart” programs, I remember,
Sponsored year...
