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    Views from the Saddle: Vol V
    Views from the Saddle: Vol V
    Views from the Saddle: Vol V
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    Views from the Saddle: Vol V

    By Ray A. Twist

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    A COWBOY'S PRAYER
    by Ray A. Twist

    Now I lay me down to sleep
    And I hope God will give me a break
    I hope I don't see Satan
    The next time I awake
    I hope I hear birds and smell flowers
    But not the ones given to the dead
    I hope I see a lone star wavin on a flag
    Against a blue sky overhead
    I hope I can see the mustang
    Drifting along the canyon rim
    And hear the voices of my old pals
    Randy, Rusty, Lefty and Slim
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 1, 2014
    ISBN9781491731697
    Views from the Saddle: Vol V
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    Ray A. Twist

    Ray A. Twist left poems on the table for his grandchildren to read before he left each morning to work his cattle, on his lease. The poems in his book reveal life in Texas. The poetry of Ray A. Twist also paints us a picture of his cowboy life in Texas for forty years.

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      Views from the Saddle - Ray A. Twist

      Copyright © 2014 Ray A. Twist.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-3168-0 (sc)

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      iUniverse rev. date: 04/17/2014

      CONTENTS

      Just In Time

      Don’t Fence Me In!

      Compassion Will Work

      Beachcombers

      Polish The Apple

      Be Careful What You Ask

      Remember The Americans?

      Search The Stars

      Seeds

      Walk Softly

      Passing Trucks And Time

      Junk In The Trunk

      Melons And Gas

      Hooded Riders 1929

      Old Black Joe

      Cowboys And Thieves

      A Dying Land

      A Blue Mountain Calls

      Ideas And Efforts

      Christmas In The 1920’S

      The Big Iron

      Return Of The Buffalo

      The Family Worked

      Leaving A Friend

      Hard Times And Good Folks

      Gathering Stones

      Pan Handle Cotton Picking

      Cowboy Winters

      What Do We Know?

      Jesus, The Most Powerful Name

      Like Snowflakes

      A Lasting Image

      Hurting Time

      Going Home I

      Going Home Ii

      The’re Back

      The Last Whistle

      It’s Your Move

      Over The Hill

      God Hears All Or I’ll Fly Away

      Rainbows Forever

      A Field Of Weeds

      Responsibility

      Dead End

      Love Without End

      Mother Teresa

      Green Bananas

      A Great Oak

      Life After Life

      I Smell Smoke

      Job Well Done

      Fear Not

      I Don’t Like Plows

      Worthy Of The Star

      School Days

      Deep Roots

      Winter’s Cold Breath

      The Elusive Cowboy

      The Right Way

      Forever Texan

      Things To Consider

      Work Program Of America

      A Long Hard Road

      Another Spring

      Where Rivers Go

      Animal Friends

      Surprise Surprise

      Boyhood Memories

      Cowboys Were Homeless

      Forever Texan

      Peace On The Trail

      Supper Time

      Thrown By A Fruit

      There Is A Way

      Where Love Is!

      Give It Back

      Shut Up And Drive

      Here And Here After

      Heaven

      The Smell Of Earth

      What You Need Is What You Get!

      How Do Angels Look?

      Get Over It!

      Run Blanco Run!

      Could It Be?

      Grass

      Cowboy Camp

      Peace On The Trail

      Headin’ For Texas

      Lonesome Riders

      They’re Still High

      Go West, But Watch It!

      Cherokee Reflections

      Old Cowhands

      Into The Sunset

      The Way Home

      About The Author

      JUST IN TIME

      The hands of the clock are moving on.

      You cannot move them back.

      It’s like the old time horror movie,

      Where you’re tied on the railroad track.

      You see the train coming down on you,

      And you know that it won’t stop.

      It’s blowing smoke and belching fire,

      And the devil is riding ‘on top.

      Soon you’re on the edge of life’s seat.

      There seems to be no hope.

      Your faith is the call to Ranger God.

      He sends Jesus to cut the rope.

      Your spirit soars from your body,

      You see he’ll wait there far below.

      Jesus takes you by the hand,

      And shows you the way to go!

      DON’T FENCE ME IN!

      A cowboy is a drifter,

      A free soul, you might say.

      He will attach himself to a slow moving herd,

      And wake up in a new world each day.

      He can ride a big blue norther,

      Rope a tornado, and tie it down.

      He’ll spend a month’s pay in the Red Dog

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