Friday, January 22, 2010

Ballad

Contemporary Cowboy

Now awake and rapidly turned

The illuminations, became attuned

Partially listening to details why

Why to exist and why extra populace die

Wore his top and cover
Risked to the plain rear on dirty path
Another daylight of hunt lacking a extensive chase
Considering on by view

The tendency, false, delusion every extraordinarily bole
Varied by the wasteland warmth and the night’s cold

Contemporary cowboy awaken up tomorrow and say
I am superior for another valuable day

Modern Cowboy

Just woke up and quickly turned
The lights and radio, became attuned
Partly listening to explanations why
Why to live and why other people die

Last night dream joined the fragmented team
Glimpse of reality well inside the main stream
Back in the coach, brown leather saddle
The horse, the groovy MPV the struggle

Wore his Stetson hat and friendly mask
Ventured to the prairie back on dusty track
Another day of chase without a substantial hunt
Contemplating on near future and an imagined past

Back in town stepped back on sandy soil
The one he trod with phony legs
Not really certain what comes or happens next
Regressed back to the ranch to hoarder’s nest

The trend, fake, illusion all remarkably bold
Mixed with the desert heat and the night’s cold
Modern cowboy will wake up tomorrow and say
I am good and ready for another precious day

2 comments:

  1. good job! I loved your word choice. All the expressions you used helped me create image in my mind.

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  2. You have nice words that rhyme and have good word choice. But you don't stick to a rhyme scheme. At first you were going AABB, then for about 2 4-line stanzas you do not follow it. Why?

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