The Cowboys' Short Parade

[hack]

Seven rhyming cowboys
prance down a confettied street
Sounds of horse verse fills the air
their hoof strikes keep the beat

A Stetson doffed, a deep horse bow,
a hand tooled leather seat
As fine a bunch of cowboys
as you'd ever hope to meet

The mountain in the distance,
its every rill and each bright glade,
shrugs off the existence
of all that man has made

The wooden gods arrayed there
to whom, no psalms are prayed
seem to take no notice of
the cowboys' short parade

[Hawkman]

Indeed as it should, the land endures the transient efforts of brief mortals. May Dyrads long survive us.

Thanks hack

[PrinceMyshkin]

Great fun - right from the title! There is, however, as I think you might know, a genre of Cowboy poetry, most of what I've seen as predictable as what comes out of the other end of their steeds.

[Bar22do]

I'd like Rio Ranchos on your rhyming cowboys' heads!
Nicely done, hack.
The two worlds forever ravined... and surely the one that is man made needs man inspired psalms to go on... The natural world has its own rhymes and rhythms, breaths, and although it sings and rhymes and beats regardless of us, perhaps our own beauty is in our capacity for paying attention and echoing, for our benefit, nature's world poetry...
Anyway, you didn't intend to be heavy while I reflect here so heavily. Apology.
Thanks for your new one!

Ah, and I especially loved when "a hand tooled a leather seat"! but I loved it all, your quality oblige.
Best - Bar

[lallison]

nicely crafted. I was expecting the second stanza to begin: "six rhyming cowboys," and so forth until there were none. Any particular reason for the seven? Just curious. Hmmm...but the more I think about it, it seems like there were none left at the end once the parade was over. A bit dark and portentous. I like it.

[hillwalker]

Any particular reason for the seven?

For me this amusing poem brought to mind the word 'magnificent' so perhaps that answers lall's question. :smilewinkgrin:

[lallison]

ah, good one hill