Dale Page worked as a horseshoer, bull rider, movie wrangler, and stable manager while attending Oklahoma State University. His writing has been published in several national magazines, including The Quarter Horse Journal, Western Horseman, and Persimmon Hill. He writes mostly narrative poems, with both real and fictional characters. Dale has performed in cowboy poetry gatherings and churches in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington State. He was named Best Performer in 2008 at the Oklahoma State University’s Cowboy Poetry and Songs event in Stillwater. In 2010, he won First Place in Serious Poetry, Rising Star Division, at the National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo in Montrose, Colorado.
Brush Poppers
Original Cowboy Poetry
by Dale Page
Brush Poppers
Original Cowboy Poetry
by Dale Page
Published Jun 04, 2015
95 Pages
Genre: POETRY / General
Book Details
From the dusty Chisholm Trail in Oklahoma Territory to the aspen-clad Benson Canyon of southern New Mexico, these original poems tell of the grit, skills, humor, and integrity of the American cowboy. Written over a span of two decades, they are a glimpse into a lifestyle which came about as necessity but has evolved into one of choice. The stories in this book, written in rhyme and meter, will give you glimpses of the men and women who lived in, died in, and changed the American West into what it has become today.
Book Excerpt
WOMEN AND HORSES The river’s relentless in falling and turning To make its escape from the mountain terrain. Then, seemingly tired of its tumbling and churning, It slows for a rest as it spreads ‘cross the plain. And then, where it widens in cool, rocky ripples Where eons of floods made the wide valley floor, As sunlight through pines paints in dapples and stipples, A woman looks out from the rough cabin’s door.
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