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turtle
Senior Member

since 2009-01-23

Posts 548
Harbor

0 posted 2009-03-10 07:17 PM

Cowboy's Lament (Cowboy Poetry)

Along where the Sweet drifts by slow and deep,
Short, scrub prairie grass rolls on bitter wind.
Outside Cheyenne, with the cattle and sheep,
Good fortune, or bad is found round each bend.

On up the Platte, where it's said time stands still
And ghosts of past hopes haunt one dusty trail.
A fragrant meadow, off Buffalo Hill,
Finds snow spattered dreams once destined to fail.

A cowboy rides past on half broke stud Paint.
All that he owns, save a dozen wild mares,
Is under his brimmed hat of stark constraint,
To lighten the lessons of lost affairs.

One distant coyote wails sad refrain,
And solemnly echos his lost lament.
Remembering days he'll never regain,
The cowboy turns back to his tired torment.

Alone where the Sweet runs laggard and deep
And scrub prairie grass has long ago thinned.
Outside Cheyenne once the cattle and sheep
Beheld a sad cowboy too dour to bend.

turtle

note: I've read all those lost love poems, here's mine.
.....more cheerful stuff to follow

Noel
Junior Member

since 2009-03-06

Posts 42
West Coast

1 posted 2009-03-10 10:49 PM

I'm a sucker for a good western, and a cowboys' sweet heart.

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

2 posted 2009-03-13 11:53 AM

I'm a sucker for men in dusty cowboy hats, faded levis and with sardonic grins. Just send him my way.

A

Pilgrimage
Member Elite

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

3 posted 2009-03-13 02:17 PM

I like the story this one tells. I love the old cowboy songs. I like the laconic rhythm of the tale, you really captured the tone.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

4 posted 2009-03-13 09:41 PM

turtle - enjoyed reading this, felt like I was there under the stars...

BC

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

5 posted 2009-03-13 11:37 PM

Poor ol cowpoke got jilted and now he doesn't have a wide screen TV or computer with video games to take his mind off the situation.

These verses are filled with vivid background images to set up the lament.

Your style, which I am getting used to, is concise and presented with great economy of words and that's a good thing.
I have a tendency to run off at the pen sometimes.
Eric

turtle
Senior Member

since 2009-01-23

Posts 548
Harbor

6 posted 2009-03-14 03:19 PM

Thanks guys,

Noel - Sounds like a lucky cowboy.

Alison - If that dusty cowboy's faded levis have a sardonic grin, he's probably wearing them too tight (chuckle)

Pilgrim - Thanks....nan??? Still haven't figured this out.....

Bill - Thanks Bill for the nice compliment.

Eric - I was gone till I read your comment. I despise opinions (Good or Bad) they are never accurate and never capture an individual's true essence. I also hate to form an opinion about someone and I am pleased when that someone changes my opinion. Yes you do tend to over verbalize in your poetry, but you are a man of great heart and gracious understanding.

I am pleased to have met you all and will miss many of you. Even a snapping turtle likes people including those he snaps at.

I'll share one more silly little poem for St Patrick's day before I go.

Thanks to all of you.

turtle

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