Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Texas Ranger duty!

 

Bluebonnet Ranger-bed!
 
Forever! Ole Smiley! Blue-skies to the horizon-yonder!”
Fast-gun Texas Ranger tells his horse in comfort-wonder!
 
“24”-years experience-memories safe behind him
Bank robbers Carmen-gang he’s out to catch them
 
Galveston Island lays far-off east on the Gulf-shore
Rosita awaits her Ranger’s return as so often before
 
Purple-eve approaches a tiny campfire in the north hills
Hot coffee! Cold biscuits! Ah! Just not too many frills
 
Diamond-sparkle canopy above; bluebonnets soft-bed
Friend-Smiley nickers-softly satiating Ranger’s dread
 
Restful-sleep keeping one-eye always on-guard awake
Pays to be careful-vigilant for life’s own survival-sake
 
Carmen’s dodged north of ole Dallas-town plumb-Wild!
Probably headed home to New Mexico Territory Mild!
 
“Be quite a ride! Smiley! Many swift-rivers to cross.
“We’ll get ’em! Boy! Sure show ’em who’s boss!”
 
Ten long days in the saddle absent any human contact
Caught sign of their dust but daylight-enough lacked
 
In Northern Texas Bluebonnets carpeted range serene-thick
Farther west rattlesnakes slithered a forked-tongue deadly lick
 
“Yeah! Smiley! They’re headed home where they just gotta Go!
“We’ll cut them off short this side of harbor Illano Estacado!
 
Cactus! & Rattlers! The country painful-stabs or deadly-bites!
Fitting home for Carmen-outlaws and their kin hideout sites
 
Caught-up with Ira and Jeb at Adobe Flats fresh-water springs
They exited Wild-shooting at dawn in a canyon filled echo-rings
 
Ira told the Ranger that Seth died from a lethal rattlesnake strike
And ole Ezra succumbed to a Jeb-bullet o’re a gal the both liked
 
A Ranger travels where e’re the law sends cowboy-justice swift
Whisper-wind Freedom! See all adventure-sights! Slowly-drift!

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