Cowboy Poetry from a Short-horn Tenderfoot

Traditional cowboy lingo like the old-time maritime vernacular of the sea and even the jargon of baseball is so colorfully descriptive that modern media-molded English sounds bland and trite by comparison. Often a short cowboy-styled phrase can convey more meaning and sentiment than several paragraphs of modern writ. That's the heart soul and backbone of cowboy poetry. A writer doesn't have to knock his brains out trying to hatch up enough imagery to offset the blandness of modern English nor does a reader have to scratch his head bald trying to understand the poems.