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7/13/2016

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Life out on the prairie was sometimes hard and lean;
Cookie at th’ chuckwagon boiled up salt pork an’ beans.
coffee in an ol’ tin cop was the fanciest they got;
They didn’t need no flavorin’ as long as it was hot!
Th’ deer jerky an’ hard tackc was mighty hard t’ chew;
But th’ hands never complained much, since meals was far an’ few.
 
An’ a stringy ol’ jack rabbit was a treat thrown in th’ pot;
Taters an’ wild onions helped th’ flavorin’ a lot.
They didn’t have fancy seasonin’s – firewood was hard t’ find;
All they had was dried up chips from a buffalo’s behind.
An’, they kinda thought they was eatin’ high when a rattle snake was found;
Cooked up in an ol’ iron skillet with sage they had hand ground.
When Cookie rang th’ breakfast iron, they really rallied ‘round;
Drank hot Arbuckle coffee, an’ through their teeth sifted th’ grounds.
Folks in this modern day an’ age don’t appreciate th’ fact;
They had no artificial additives, but flavor didn’t lack!

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3/3/2017 04:27:07

That was terrific! I hope to see here more topics in the future. It will be nice if you'll add more of your early poems here.

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    Donna Penley is a Cowgirl Poet with deep Kansas roots who has been writing cowboy poetry for over twenty five years. She is a real Cowgirl and an ex-barrel racer.

    Donna writes about all phases of cowboy life, with lots of humor woven in. Her poem Carrie Nation hangs in the Carrie Nation Museum in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

    As a benefit for the blind and sight impaired, Great Empire Broadcasting produced a cassette tape of her poetry and distributed it to all Kansas public libraries (
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