Cowboy Ron Williams

Cowboy Ron Williams Poems

Old Cowboy Ron, well, that is me.
I never went to school.
I grew up working on a ranch,
and yet I ain't no fool.
...

I asked the moon
if you could ever love me.
She did not respond
but just turned kind of green
...

Friends are most precious, and I've had a few,
And on this website, it's been mostly fun.
Right now I have some other things to do;
Excuse me now, I'll grab my horse and run.
...

When my great-grandfather,
Ebeneezer Williams was eleven
years old, he was herding a dozen
cattle from one mountain area
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Sunset approaching
riding my horse
past the old cemetery
he suddenly stopped short
...

It's useful to do things
in the same order
every time.
...

A youth called Little Jimmy came
to work at the Bar J,
and when that scrawny kid showed up,
we all just thought, 'No way! '
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I hold my wife in sweet embrace
and share a tender kiss,
then gently lead her off to bed
for moments of pure bliss.
...

The frog sat by the peaceful pond
and marveled at the frilly frond
but said nothing.
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I dream of her, and rightly so;
she causes my old blood to flow
and makes my heart beat very fast;
my love for her will always last.
...

You're only as old as you feel, they say.
There's truth in that saying, for sure.
I've always had strength to work and to play,
but lately? No, not anymore.
...

I've had enough of city life;
I had to get away,
so here I am up in the hills
on this November day.
...

Is this how it begins?
The final decline into helplessness?
This morning I had the hardest time
getting my fingers to cooperate
...

I almost became a country singer.
My cousin Don invited me
to join him on tour once,
but I was having too much success
...

I don't know
if I will ever
make it to a hundred.
...

It's snowing in Durango,
and my thoughts are turning back
to when I stepped into a store
just looking for a snack.
...

There was a young girl named LeeAnn
who thought she would get a full tan.
She disrobed on the beach
with her clothes within reach
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I don't believe in fate;
there is no destiny.
You can be weak or great;
be what you want to be.
...

If there are no horses in Heaven,
then I don't want to go.
That means I'd walk everywhere,
and I walk really slow.
...

I'm flying down the open road,
wind flowing through my hair.
My brain is in torpedo mode
and I've got time to spare.
...

Cowboy Ron Williams Biography

My name is Ronald G. Williams. I used to be a real cowboy and rodeo circuit rider. I have finished in the top ten three times in the national finals. I also worked for a little over a year as a lumberjack in Alaska. I was laid off there and didn't have much money, so I stayed in a buddy's cabin while he went back to the lower 48 to visit family, and lived off the land as a mountain man for a little while. I finally got a regular job as a fireman in a large city in Arizona and worked there for more than 22 years until I was forced to retire because of my age. About a month after that, my barber passed away. I had become very good friends with him, and was very surprised when I was informed by his attorney that he had left me his barber shop and all the equipment in his will! He had no close family members. I had no formal training as a barber, so I couldn't charge for my services, but I started giving free haircuts to the homeless men in town. It was something to do to keep me busy. As my skills improved, so did my reputation, and soon so-called homeless men in suits and ties started appearing for free haircuts! The good news is that they gave me generous tips equivalent to more than the cost of a haircut from other barbers in town. Soon I was making more money than I ever had in my life, and all tax free because legally I was just giving free haircuts! Finally I got carpal tunnel in both wrists so severe that I had to give it up. At age 80 I sold the shop, discovered Poem Hunter, and the rest is history. So now I call myself Cowboy Ron Williams. I was a cowboy longer than anything else. I was married for 40 years to the most wonderful woman in the world, but she has been gone for more than two years now and I am lonely. I would consider getting married again if the right woman came along, but there are few who want to marry an octogenarian. Would it help if I told them that I have more money than I can figure out how to spend? By the way, the B.S. that I have listed for Education does not stand for Bachelor of Science. Instead, it refers to something sloppy and completely bovine. MY POEMS ARE NOT TO BE USED IN 'SHOWCASES' OR OTHER DISPLAYS BY OTHER POETS.)

The Best Poem Of Cowboy Ron Williams

Old Cowboy Ron

Old Cowboy Ron, well, that is me.
I never went to school.
I grew up working on a ranch,
and yet I ain't no fool.

I had to teach myself to read,
and writing was quite hard,
and though I've practiced quite a bit
I'll never be no bard.

I never tried to write a poem
‘til I had eighty turned.
I don't know naught ‘bout metaphors;
that's stuff I never learned.

Don't talk to me ‘bout similes
or that iambic stuff,
I don't know jack about that crap;
confusing, sure enough.

My words ain't polished, that's for sure.;
my grammar might be rough.
I just write what sounds good to me;
if you don't like it - - tough!

Cowboy Ron Williams Comments

Bharati Nayak 26 April 2024

Hearty welcome Cowboy! I seriously believed what you wrote in your edited Bio and Kim Barney's poem! I think you had a short stint at his Poetry Heaven!

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Bharati Nayak 24 February 2024

Cowboy, we really miss you.

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Cowboy Ron Williams 24 April 2024

Dear Bharati, who is included in the 'we'? I think you were the only one! Love and kisses to you from 'Cowboy'.

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Bharati Nayak 12 February 2024

Cowboy, you gave us a pleasant surprise as a New Year Gift that was pending.

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Dear Poet Cowboy Ron Williams, thank you for following my poems on PoemHunter. I would look forward to your valuable comments on my poems. Thank you.

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Cowboy Ron Williams Quotes

It's just Smoky Hoss and me. We seem to be the only cowboys left. Saddle up and meet me at the north pasture, Smoky. This website has mostly died. Let's ride off and find us a better one.

Looked up the word 'geezer' in the dictionary. They had my picture in there!

It takes a lot of balls to enjoy a feast of Rocky Mountain oysters.

Bad breath is better than no breath at all.

My hair is starting to get thin, but who wants fat hair, anyway?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but an onion a day keeps EVERYBODY away!

I may not always walk a straight and narrow line, but I try to cross it as often as possible!

The older and skinnier I get, the more I appreciate global warming!

Just so that everyone is clear, I'm going to put on my glasses.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. (Will Rogers)

A journey of a thousand miles begins with running back into the house for something you forgot.

I just heard about something called intermittent fasting. Isn't that the period of time between lunch and dinner?

i before e except after c, and also when you heinously seize your feisty foreign neighbor's conceited beige weird heifer from the ceiling.

Without a reader the poem is dead, stillborn and lifeless —buried unread (Kurt Philip Behm)

I'm so insignificant, I don't even get junk mail anymore. Everybody must think I'm already dead.

Sometimes life teaches us things we didn't think we wanted to know.

I used to play 'Kick the Can' when I was a kid. Now I just try not to kick the bucket.

The older I get, the more I regret all the people I've lost over the years. Maybe being a trail guide wasn't such a great idea after all.

Dreams don't work... unless YOU do!

I'm fat, but identify as slim. I'm trans-slender.

You NEVER get too old to learn something new!

Everybody is good for something. If nothing else, you can always serve as a bad example.

Psychiatrists tell us that one out of every four people is mentally ill. Check your three best friends. If they seem all right, then you're the one.

The rotation of the earth really makes my day.

My youngest granddaughter has learned, by observation, what the colors of the traffic lights mean: Red means stop. Green means go. Yellow means go a little faster.

It's tough getting older. I went into an antiques store and they wouldn't let me leave!

I went to the doctor because I thought I had arthritis. I don't. I have early onset rigor mortis.

My doctor wanted a stool sample, so I went to the furniture store...

I joined a dating site for people my age, called Carbon Dating. I asked a lady on the site for her number. She said it was 140 over 95.

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