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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2008-01-10 10:12 PM

Have you ever seen a cow give birth?
Or watched a new born foal-
Take it’s first few wobbly steps,
And shiver in the cold?

Or rolled out of your blankets-
On an Arizona morn-
To go outside and hay the stock,
And curse the day you’s born?

To sadlle before daylight,
When the frost is all around…
And have a really salty bronc,
Slam you to the ground?

For these and several hundred more,
Are things a cowboy knows-
Like breaking broncs and digging calves
Out of the prairie snows.

And sitting in some bunkhouse,
And reading magazines-
And every woman on the page…
Appears to him in dreams.

He dreams of home and fireside-
Of laughing boys and girls…
A wife to say “I love you”
Blue eyes and golden curls.

And when the clock awakes him-
To face another day-
Those dreams are far beyond the means
Of a simple cowboy’s pay.

But when he’s pushing young stock
Out in the early fall…
And watching as the geese fly south,
And weaner yearlings bawl-

Even though he’s getting old,
His hair is turning gray…
He wouldn’t trade it for the world,
He loves the ‘Cowboy way.’

Bobby Jordan
Member

since 2007-08-13

Posts 491
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1 posted 2008-01-10 10:20 PM

Yo Gunslinger,

WOW, this moves along very well. Very good writing.

Bobby

Frances The Mute
Junior Member

since 2008-01-09

Posts 16
CT, USA

2 posted 2008-01-10 10:25 PM

whoa i really liked this. hard to identify why, but maybe the fact that its so down to earth yet so eloquent makes it great. if that makes any sense?

"There is a beast in man that needs to be excersised, not exorcised."

sandgrain
Member Elite

since 1999-09-21

Posts 3662
Sycamore, IL, USA

3 posted 2008-01-10 10:44 PM

I enjoyed the bitter and sweet of cowboy life in this writing.

Rae

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2008-01-11 12:06 PM

I guess you were born to be a cowboy and given the gift of words to tell us how it feels to fulfill your destiny.
Ida

Yvette
Junior Member

since 2007-12-08

Posts 19
Texas, United States

5 posted 2008-01-13 05:54 PM

This reminds me of something Bret Harte might have written many years ago. If you haven't heard of him you should check out some of his short stories if you can find them. I really think you would appreciate them. I wrote about him in Western Literature in college.

Many people thought he was too maudlin to be taken seriously as a writer, but he was wildly popular and I think that only someone who didn't relate with being a true cowboy would have accused him of anything other than being an awesome writer and storyteller.

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