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Open Poetry #41

What Makes a Cowboy Poet?

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2007-09-24 11:12 AM

What makes a cowboy poet?
The requisites? Well, let me see…
A love for the West, and a heart for the soil,
And a mindset that has to be free!

It helps if you’ve set in the saddle-
And watched the dawn turn into light;
And maybe you’ve turned out the horses
When the full moon was now shining bright.

Rodeo? Well, you know I love it-
But all of the cowboys don’t.
Most of us came out of chutes once or twice,
But I’ve known me some cowboys that won’t.

Romance? Why, yes, I would say so…
We’re all of a romantic bent.
We still see ourselves as knights errant-
After our youth has been spent.

But mostly, we’re people of vision-
With our own conceptions of right-
Who live in a world of our choosing,
Who rather than change, dare to fight.

Who’ve gone most the places we’ve cared to,
And done what we wanted to do…
And after we’ve tasted life’s pleasures,
We’d now like to share them with you.

Some of our friends were our heroes,
Who’ll never see history’s page…
But they will live on in the stories,
And songs of some cow country sage.

The life that we’ve lived is fast passing-
The days of the bunkhouse nigh gone.
And how many know “Joe, the Wrangler”?
Or still sing the “Strawberry Roan”?

A cowboy poet’s the minstrel-
Who tells of a lifestyle that’s past…
And maybe in some of his scribbling,
He’ll put down some values that last.

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

1 posted 2007-09-24 11:19 AM

nice read! ARCTIC WIND

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

2 posted 2007-09-24 11:40 AM

Love to read you. You have been absent too long. I enjoyed this one. "late"

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2007-09-24 12:36 PM

I don't know too much about cowboys but I think if I keep reading you poetry I will learn something.

PoppaLoco
Member

since 2007-09-23

Posts 83
EU, NL, Limburg

4 posted 2007-09-24 02:51 PM

Amazing what those long days of solitary reflection and pure experience can produce! Keep putting your words to great use, they paint beautiful portraits.

Pops

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