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Cowboy Poetry by Tom Sheehan
Tom Sheehan served in Korea, 1951-52, with the 31st Infantry Regiment and graduated from Boston College in 1956. His books are Epic Cures (2005) and Brief Cases, Short Spans (2008) from Press 53; A Collection of Friends (2004) and From the Quickening (2009) from Pocol Press. Recent eBooks include Korean Echoes and The Westering, from Milspeak Publishers, with the latter nominated for a National Book Award. His work is in anthologies from Press 53 (Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform, and Milspeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience); The Best of Sand Hill, 2012; Storylandia;Blue Cubicle Press’s Tales from the Combat Zone; and Jake Johnson’s Locked Room Mysteries. Novel manuscripts Murder from the Forum (an NHL mystery novel) and Death of a Lottery Foe (mystery novel) are seeking publication.
He has 18 Pushcart nominations, an Indie Award for Epic Cures, the Georges Simenon Award for fiction, a story in the Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009 and nominations for Best of the Web 2010 and 2011.
His novels include Vigilantes East, Death for the Phantom Receiver and An Accountable Death. His poetry books include The Saugus Book; Ah, Devon Unbowed; Reflections from Vinegar Hill; and This Rare Earth & Other Flights.
In many Internet and print magazines, he has appeared in 5 print issues of Rosebud Magazine and 8 print issues of Ocean Magazine, The Linnet’s Wings, 2012, and has 290 stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, recorded works in Qarrtsiluni and appears in many other sites nationally and in Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Ukraine, Romania, Mexico and Canada. He helped co-edit and issue two books on his hometown of Saugus, MA, sold all 4500 printed (842 total pages in the two books) with color sections, text, timelines, nostalgia and history, all proceeds for Saugus High School graduates via the John Burns Memorial Scholarship.
The Barns on Western Prairie Roads
Tom Sheehan
West land has its own monuments,
most left by a mighty Higher Hand;
now and then, in a longer view
from a prairie road’s twist at a turn,
rides up, saddling the land, a barn
set out on grass by one man’s will.
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Irons in the Fire
Tom Sheehan
Prairie grass and pale squaw pine,
dead growths from cottonwoods,
a struck match or powder flash
say, “This beef is justly mine.”
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The Old Cowpoke on His Porch
Tom Sheehan
You can see where I’ve landed,
busted-face and broken-handed,
stomped feet up for stirrup rest
at this cabin, my new nest.
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Wind and Wire Musical
Tom Sheehan
There’s music, if you listen,
When the wind plays on a wire,
How it shivers on a high note
Like the best from any choir.
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Henry Ladder, That’s My Name
Tom Sheehan
I’m climbing me up to the sky,
On my name when I’m to die;
I’ll make it up, oh rung by rung
Singing, Lord, what have I brung?
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Leather Stains
Tom Sheehan
My uncle died and left me luck,
His old barn and a golden buck,
A house falling roof-ward down,
Losing first that old-time crown,
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Gettin' On Home
By Tom Sheehan
I got me a mirror and a comb,
Gettin’ on home, gettin’ on home.
It won’t be sad, Momma’s glad;
I used a mirror and a comb.
Gettin’ on home, gettin‘ on home.
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If There Ever Was A Pair
By Tom Sheehan
Even though the cowboy’s free,
his horse will chart his destiny,
for if there ever was a pair,
it’s the cowboy on his mare,
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