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Cowboy
poets have captured and helped preserve the spirit of the "Old
West"; and they have brought back rhythm and rhyme to the art of
poetry. In doing so, they have given a great deal of pleasure to
readers and audiences across the country.
Casey's Corral is proud to be a part of this
movement.
In his great book,"
Pattern and Variation In
Poetry" (1932), Chard Powers Smith opines that poetry is
rhythmical language stimulating to the imagination; and that unless it has both
the elements of "rhythmical language" and "language that stimulates the
imagination" it is not poetry. If it stimulates the imagination but lacks a
rhythmical quality, it is "Prose". If it has a rhythmical quality but fails to
stimulate the imagination it is "Verse". About imagination Smith said this: "The
aim of poetry is to break up the familiar images, concepts and ideas which we
carry in minds by indicating essential variants not familiarly associated
with them, variants that give them a new and special significance: instead of
saying, "We fell in love", to say, "We read no more from that book that day.";
instead of saying, "Now I fall dead", to say "The rest is silence";
instead of saying, "My youth is passing", to say,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
-Sonnet 19 from The Harp Weaver and Other Poems- Millay.
Within the scope of Cowboy Poetry you
will find many poems and verses ...all having a strong rhythmical
quality, and many poems that are original and creative, and
that stimulate the imagination. In response to all the "proseits"
out there who question my ability to write anything other than
"doggerel" or "verse", I respectfully submit the following:
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