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Cowboy Poetry and Western Verse
Two Poems By Douglas Polk
Boots on the Fence Posts
Douglas Polk
cowboy boots on fence posts,
memorials to the dead,
horses remembered,
along with some good men,
toes pointing the way home,
hoping no one late or lost,
when the last roundup comes.
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Walking Stick
Douglas Polk
Grandma used a walking stick,
not for support,
or out of need,
more habit than anything else,
when a girl on her way to school,
she and her brother had a job to do,
turning cowpies over to dry in the sun,
her brother flipped them by hand,
she preferred the stick,
on weekends,
the wagon readied and the dry cowpies collected,
hauled and stored beside the shed,
the practice looked down upon by some,
sighs of relief,
when corn cobs burned instead,
and later coal trucked from town,
then propane, electricity and natural gas,
yet the walking stick remained,
Grandma walking the pasture in the summer sun,
flipping cowpies.
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