When A Cowboy Drinks Espresso by Stephen Bly
I’ve lived long enough to see it all,
at least I thought it so,
‘Till a rainy day at the ranch last Spring,
when they started servin’ espresso.
The west is changin’, so they say,
a fact I cannot hide.
Cowboys used to stand apart
with tradition, guts and pride.
Now we got men who call themselves ropers
wearin’ tennies and baseball caps.
Serious breeders carryin’ papers
on bushy-tailed, spotless Apps.
Why, I’ve seen boots without manure,
sombreros with so sign of sweat.
And punchers ridin’ 4-wheelers,
about as low as a man kin get.
An espresso bar at the horse ranch?
Why, it purtneer broke my heart.
Let them city folks drink their fill
by the two-bit pony at Walmart.
I reckon he ain’t sold his saddle, boys,
but it’s not that far to go …
When a cowboy forsakes boiled coffee,
and starts sippin’ that there espresso!
When A Cowboy Drinks Espresso by Stephen Bly
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More Stephen Bly cowboy poetry, including When A Cowboy Drinks Espresso, can be found in the collection “When The Cowboys Come To Town” available in paperback, hanging calendar type style, eBook Kindle, or in audio CD or casette tape. Check it out here: COWBOY POETRY
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Poetry That Rhymes Preferred by Cowboys
Most all cowboys write poetry that rhymes. It’s not that cowboys are opposed to blank verse or free verse. But most poems they compose are done on horseback without pencil, paper or computer screen to record the flow of ideas. Much easier for him or her to memorize poetry that rhymes.
I didn’t write my cowboy poetry that rhymes on horseback. But ninety-nine percent of my poems were created while driving my pickup down some lonesome western road. On-the-go poetry, you might call it.
Some of my cowboy poems were found within the pages of my western novels. Lots of fiction writers like found poems that come right out of their stories … READ MORE HERE
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