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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.  

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Folks' Poems

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. 


 

Lariat Laureate

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

 

Past Lariat Laureates

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)


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

 

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


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


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



First Lariat Laureate Winner
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
Third Lariat Laureate Winner
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


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

 

Neal Torrey
Second Lariat Laureate
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

 

 

Lariat Laureate Finalists

8 Seconds

G. M. Atwater
Currently one of 8 Seconds
The Home Place

Cowboy Life

Don Ayers
The Good Hand
Turned Out

Flavis Bertrand
The Prairies
The Homesteader

Alf Bilton
When Walls Forgot
The Arts (in tribute to Rod Nichols)
Regret (in tribute to Rod Nichols)
The Home Place

The Morning that Pedro Blew
Sunset Gold

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

Gail T. Burton
The Economist
Just Celebrating

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

Louis A. Carle    1924-2000
Backward Boots
Tribute to Louis A. Carle

Nona Kelley Carver
The Words of Bruce Kiskaddon

Daughter of the Prairie  

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

Ken Cook
Currently one of 8 Seconds
Grandpa
The Conversation
Come with Me

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 Dunn
Chores I Don't Guess I'll Tire Of
Still Doin' Business

Mike Diehl
The Legion of Marshall Bill

David Dill
Tom Z. Reeves
The Devil's Tale


The Shot Glass
No Spurs a- Jinglin'

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

Sherrod L. Fielden
Cowboy Obituary

Real Cowboy

Dave P. Fisher
Dawn Riders  
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

Ken Gardner
Sleepin' in the Bunkhouse

Davey Lee George (see McCloud)

Don Gregory
Howdy Boss
Comin' Home

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

Jean A. (Mathisen) Haugen
God Rest Ye Merry Grumps

The Valley at Home
Uncle Sammy

Michael Henley
Currently one of 8 Seconds
The Promise

At His Own Pace
Rules
Packin' Sammy

Things I Lean On
Home on Range

Stuart Hooker
Currently one of 8 Seconds
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
Christmas Eve Ride

A Cowboy's Christmas Eve

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
Nails

A Word About Charlie

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
Currently one of 8 Seconds
Cold Weather Feedin'
Where the Hard Grass Meets the Sky
Rod's Pinpoint of Light for Rod Nichols
A Bull in the Kitchen

Reminiscin'

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

Janalee Martin
The Long Rope
Close to Timber
Forever

Jean Mathisen see (Jean A. Haugen)

Mag Mawhinney 
Currently one of 8 Seconds
Winter Range
Molly
Those Who Have Gone Before

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
Currently one of 8 Seconds
Once We Were Kings
Cyclone in the Pines

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
Currently one of 8 Seconds
In Living Memory
Who We Are

Rings (for Rod Nichols)
And Still the Story Grows

Ezra Spur
Where the Blue Stem Grows
That Old Mousy Cow

Hal Swift 
Blame it on Daylight Savin's Time

"Hand-Me-Downs"
"Here's to Mom
Spanish Springs is Changin'
The Cowpokes' Roll-Away Saloon

Stan Tixier
Mustangs and Moonshine

The Golden Spike

Roger Traweek
A Cowboy Operation
Strong Medicine

Tex Tumbleweed
A Change of Pace

A Cowboy's Final Wish
Generation Gaps

Smoke Wade
Trailing the Herd
A Change of Season
Leather Gods

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

John Yaws
Days of Working Cattle

Drouth

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 in Cimarron Country

Christmas Out Here

Kyle Anders
Annie

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

John Anderson
Cookin' Lessons

John Anderson

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
Rachel's Quest

 Cowboy Pretense

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
Cowboying with Jace

Risky Betts
The Organic and the Yuppie
Top Hand

Ivan L Biehn
The Least of These

Aspen Black
Plight of the Musical Cowgirl
Hoofprints on the Clouds

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

Alex Bottesini-Pullin
A Horse with Two Graves
Gelding

George Bourbeau
The Gift
Musings

Victoria Boyd
Weekend Cowboy Heading Home

 Calf Girl and the Heifer Calf

Robert Boyle
Wild Horses

Shauntal Bradley
We Remember Him

Dan Bradshaw
I'll Be Go to Hell

Gary Brandt
Somewhere In Montana

Dana Brannon
Buck

Doug Brewer
The Cowboy Hat

Tacked

Caib Brian
That Old Fence

Cathy Brian
Grandma and the Outlaw

Real Peace

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

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
The Loneliest Trail

Oilcloth and Coal Oil

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

Daniel Bybee
Propane Tank Cowboys

Old Jiggs

Lana Calonico
Guardian Angel

Marty Campbell
A Real Moustache

Leslie Cline-Carbah
Cowboy Birthday Toast

Jim Cardwell
Buckaroo Vang
The Freeze of '42

David L. Carlton
Hard Times

Cook

Michael Carlton
Palace Hotel

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

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

Byrl Keith Chadwell
Columns of Two

The Prodigal Cowboy

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

Toni Chisamore
Hip 202

Jesse Chisholm
I Do Not Lead a Cowboy's Life

Steve Christian
Cowboy Memories

Days Like This

J. R. Claiborn
Flaming Beans
Meet My Maker

Allen Clark
Me and the Boy
Posthole Promenade

Stephen Cloud
Thanks from Cow Camp

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
Pink's Call

Stan's Stone Boatin' Steer

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
Christmas Blew In

Russell's West
Alice