Cowboys
When considering cowboys, there’s much to admire.
They’re tough and they’re skilled and available for hire.
Their style’s not eclectic. They all look the same.
They’re wild and they’re wooly. Not easy to tame.
They’re never clandestine. They’re out in the open.
Just shootin’ and spittin’ and ridin’ and ropin’.
Made out of leather and chew and barbed wire,
nobody knows when cowboys expire.
For though they aren’t known for their tact or their heart,
there’s much to admire in how they depart.
No need for a service or funeral pyre,
no casket, no preacher, no flowers, no choir.
They merely climb up and sit straight in the saddle,
ride toward the horizon and simply skedaddle.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/rdp-monday-skedaddle/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/02/04/fowc-with-fandango-eclectic/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/your-daily-word-prompt-clandestine-february-4-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/admire/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
This is great. Lots of skedaddling out here in the back of beyond, too.
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I’ve been known to skedaddle myself, haven’t you?
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Oh yeah. That’s the real word in “You have to know when to walk away, and know when to skedaddle.”
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Know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em, in another vernacular, also slightly cowboyish.
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D-ayh-mn those be some mighty fine looking cowboys you have featured there. Poem? What poem?
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I photographed them on the street when I went back to my childhood home town for their 100th anniversary celebration in South Dakota.
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Proving there is more to SD than Mount Rushmore…
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Yes, ma’am.
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Aha.. you couldn’t get past the cute cowboys, huh?
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Greetings Judy. I enjoyed the cowboys poem and the photo, especially since I know them all. Good to know you are well and happy.
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Can you please give me their names so I can put them in the blog? I didn’t know any of them. Nor can I tell who you are because there is no name on the comment, so would love to know who this is, also. Hope you are well and happy, too!! Thanks so much for commenting.
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