Lorca Translations Iii
...Lorca Translations III
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War and his body was never found.
Pais...
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Categories:
saddlebag, bird, dark, death, light,
Form: Free verse
Lorca Translations Ii
...Lorca Translations II
Canción del jinete (“Song of the Rider”)
by Federico Garcia Lorca
translation by Michael R. Burch
Cordoba. Distant and lone.
Black pony, big moon,
olives in my saddleb...
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Categories:
saddlebag, death, love, moon, spanish,
Form: Free verse
Filister
...Disturbed over what she had planned
for tomorrow. Often times she refused to
me as included with her plans.
What sweet sonnets sing ye
the sound of togetherness
tangled with romance
an eveni...
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Categories:
saddlebag, creation, guitar, music, romantic
Form: Ballad
Along the Cold Dreary Road
...There was a time
Of life with joy and happiness
Not a single concern
Now I just have regrets to look back at
Little by little
The steps I take come to naught
Sadness and self pity
Make...
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Categories:
saddlebag, winter,
Form: Free verse
Merlin the Magic Cat
...Merlin indeed was a magical cat
With long flowing robes and a pointy blue hat.
He came into town on a Harley one day
With a gleam in his eye and the look of a stray.
His head, shiny bald, but his...
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Categories:
saddlebag, cat, magic,
Form: Rhyme
The Laptop Cowboy
...The Laptop Cowboy
I got four hundred white face cows,
A breed that I swear by.
A herd of Mustangs to be rode,
New laptop standin' by.
I keep it in my saddlebag
Or on the pickup seat.
I'm l...
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Categories:
saddlebag,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Horde Mind
...Rider comin' up behind me
Ragged ear pony shows message is important
As he draws alongside
I
indicate food in my saddlebag
hand across the reins
and
jump...
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Categories:
saddlebag,
Form: Free verse
Nemesis
...Galloping through a rambled life
With her spirit carried in a saddlebag
Relishing the joy in her new voice
Finally, the master of her own choice
'Let's sing songs and say poems'
We chimed, way...
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Categories:
saddlebag, betrayal, me, sister,
Form: Rhyme
A Cowboy Is
...A cowboy named Hank joined wagon trails going west on his horse
He rode the outskirts and back trails of cities in search of a home
He would get a piece of land for growing corn near a river’s sour...
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Categories:
saddlebag, adventure, cowboy-western, imagination
Form: Sonnet