Post by Admin on Dec 11, 2016 14:12:22 GMT -8
This forum was created to remember, preserve, share, and celebrate our western and cowboy heritage. That interest encompasses classic and modern poetry in traditional form commonly used by cowboys in their heyday from about 1850 to 1900. It also includes an interest in historic and modern rural western life.
Traditional western and cowboy poetry has five characteristics.
Although there are some excellent poems on western themes written in blank and free verse, our interest does not encompass such non-traditional forms.
Traditional western and cowboy poetry has five characteristics.
- Family oriented text (no four-letter “bombs”).
- Cowboy or Western Theme either historic or modern setting.
- Cowboy or Western Theme either historic or modern setting.
- Consistent Metric Pattern (such as verses with lines with 8/6/8/6 syllables).
- True end line Rhymes (such as love/dove but not love/doves, love/clover, or love/move).
Clark, a backward cowboy poet,
is challenged by a curse
because ev'ry poem he writes
turns out to be inverse!
is challenged by a curse
because ev'ry poem he writes
turns out to be inverse!
Although there are some excellent poems on western themes written in blank and free verse, our interest does not encompass such non-traditional forms.