Damn This Field

[paulcanuck]

Please forgive me for asking questions - I'm new to poetry forums and am usually writing song lyrics - so not being defensive - just want to understand! See comments below..

Hello Paul, I often do parodies of Cowboy poetry, but then I feel bad for being snobbish.

You read this as a cowboy poem parody? Interesting!


There's some cool stuff here. I like the idea of irate cowboy poetry and feel anapests would work well there.

lol, you're right about the meter being fine in that stanza. Here's a good poem about a farm, in my opinion. http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/walk-...old-tracks. Perhaps you've seen it before. I was too flippant with my first response. I think the rhyming took me away from your poem.

Yeah - coming from a song lyrics background I do put a lot of emphasis on rhyming, but then again so did Edgar Guest - one of my fav poets. Thanks for the link - very nice poem - if that's what it is.. I'm just wondering where poems leave off and short stories begin or is it a murky line?
cheers
Paul