Deep in west Texas town of El Paso....

March 10, 2006 9:58 AM

Classic poetry of the Old West. Alone on the prarie, with only their thoughts to comfort them these poets wrote. Not always the greatest of poems, they still capture the essence of the romantic cowboy.
posted by ozomatli (6 comments total)

I have heard about them romantic cowboys sir,
And ile have none of their kind out here sir.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:16 AM on March 10, 2006

there kind.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:18 AM on March 10, 2006

Gail Gardner's "The Sierry Petes" appears as a song on a Norman Blake album I have. Thanks for the post!

If you're ever up high in the Sierry Petes,
An' you hear one Hell of a wail,
You'll know it's that Devil a-bellerin' around,
About them knots in his tail.
posted by Lockjaw at 10:52 AM on March 10, 2006

There's something really compelling about cowboy poetry. Thanks for the post.
posted by OmieWise at 12:08 PM on March 10, 2006

Previous cowboy poetry post. (This one's already gotten more response in a few hours than the previous one did in its whole entire life!)
posted by languagehat at 2:22 PM on March 10, 2006

The crickets and the rust-beetles
scuttled among the nettles of the
sagethicket. Vamanos, amigos, he
whispered, and threw the busted leather
flintscraw over the loose weave of the
saddlecock. And they rode on in the
friscalating dusklight.
posted by soiled cowboy at 5:19 PM on March 10, 2006