The cattle are hidden in a thicket, along a flint hill’s gully, and the rain rolls across the Kansas night, thunder pumping, rolling deep, throaty, hollow bellows.
Gods breathe and clouds slap. Rocks and roots charge through the narrows ripping at the thickets.
Thunder’s rolling rhythm broken by the calves panicked screams, flashing, the flood quenches the Kansas night.
Undercut or buried, the cattle are gone. The distance carries their breath away. The moon’s midnight watch echoes the bawling calves.
And a cowboy can’t cry. cold are the tears in morning coffee.
I can see the tears evaporating, uncried from the skyblue eyes. I can hear the cry that will never escape his throat in the questioning panic of the cattle.
I can feel the electric static of emotion held in the thin threads of a plaid flannel shirt. His solitude the only salvation from sparking into an inferno.
*Sigh* Being a cowgirl myself, this was an emotional read for me..Loved the rhythm, the content and the style. It is the hurricanes that always threatened my horses and I know the mood you have described here all too well
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not all can add spelling, ad.. read moreNot all can comment to move , to move a word ,to move the meaning
not all can add spelling, add meaning
Not all can step to the cadence of time
not all can take a poems seed and plant it in minds time
Thank you for a tumbling weed slow across gramma-grass
thank you for the traces', silhouettes, of mourning tears ,
For welling our heart right to our eyes
for filling coffee cups,of cowboys
Cowboys who think they can't cry.
11 Years Ago
Cowboys can't cry, but pour their heart out in song like rain.
I love the first stanza!! Brilliantly penned!! This makes me miss and almost become choked up in missing the country life and the horses I've raised!!
I love this!! Maika'i no!!
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12 Years Ago
there are more horses here, "Come Back Cowboy Comeback" or "Soul"
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I'll be sure to read :) Always loved a good western write ^^ Brings back hope for future humanity lo.. read moreI'll be sure to read :) Always loved a good western write ^^ Brings back hope for future humanity lol
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a black pot of pinto beans, rice, hot chilie
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Sounds very warming... Just not a hawaiian dish lol!!! But maybe I'll bring that to the next luau I'.. read moreSounds very warming... Just not a hawaiian dish lol!!! But maybe I'll bring that to the next luau I'm in haha. Gosh, I miss the mainland and the horses. The wide open ranges, the ranch, the mountains, the vast ocean skies, the crisp mornings, the times where horse and rider are one.
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Better to be one with the horse then apart, ouch
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Haha, I've had my share of falls, especially when training new ones. Horses, I believe, are God's gr.. read moreHaha, I've had my share of falls, especially when training new ones. Horses, I believe, are God's greatest gift to humankind...
"he rides the wild horses
the same blood runs through their veins
Yes, he rides the wild.. read more"he rides the wild horses
the same blood runs through their veins
Yes, he rides the wild horses
like the horses, he'll never be tame"
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Paste it post it, get the reviews!
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lol its an old song i think.... I cant remember who sang it, but I remember it was playing while I w.. read morelol its an old song i think.... I cant remember who sang it, but I remember it was playing while I was getting ready for the barrels
The cattle are hidden in
a thicket, along a flint hill’s gully,
and the rain rolls across the Kansas night,
thunder pumping, rolling
deep, throaty, hollow bellows.
Best paragraph out of the poem. Interesting details are all over the poem, along with the emotion and the feel in it.
Love this poem....i can interpret into my day to day life which drew me into the poem & felt the emotion for myself. Also it's very descriptive, which makes for a vivid animation in my head of it! Very nice.
Good morning,Thank you for stopping by. I like to write,I like to layer a story into a poem,I want to crack through to the reader,add emotion to life, theirs and mine. more..