Cowboys & Jackaroos Ole West Poetry Contest

CONTEST! [hit F5]

We're talking the old days of camping with the herd, driving them to market and hanging the rustlers. Shooting the varmits who'd steal your horse or look at your hat funny.

We're not talking forms or style or length or limits, just home-style cooking and prairie romance.

Get yer brand into the assay office by Wednesday night, 26 November! No posting on yer site while still in the contest or yew'll be shot! Three rounds, no prizes, but bragging rights & a shot of Jack Daniels, but y'a gotta get yer butt over to Klein, Texas to collect that shot.

Oh, hell. Get over here & you'll get a shot of Jack anyway.

Judges will be drafted from those not turning in brands.

Shot of tequila (whiskey, blech) and you can count me in! Yeeeehawwww!

EDIT: Is this an individual or club thing?

Mr. Larry, I'm at sea
my eye was poked, ARrgg
I suck at this.

Individual contest

Vernacular not required

Just the setting out in the rolling hills of the old West

What you put in praising a comment:

Question: Why do Cowboys write poetry?
Answer: Because they're inspired by the moos.

;)

Ya'll better come out shootin'!

I LOVE cowboys ! and I have no idea what this contest is about ... HA!

LOL.

Love the twang!

So if I enter can I still get my shot of Jack... even if I'm underage??

I promise that's not why I'm interested in joining. I'll go put on my cowgirl hat from a long time ago ;P

Oh great Larry -- now you're promoting underage drinking.

MA, We'll bake your shot into my Black Jack cookies so the alcohol is gone but not the goodness! Pick your preferred filling: raisins, toffee or chocolate chunks.

Rania, just write a poem of any kind about a scene from the American old West or the Aussie Outback.

Nicko, doesn't New Zealand have something like that, too?

That works just as well! (And I'll take the chocolate chunks, please).

Good choice, missy

No not really Larry, we have what we call High country stations set on rolling mountains, but they are few in number as NZ ain't big.... but no outback like Australia has, having said that a lot of the sheep shearing gangs are from NZ they tour the Australian outback going from station to station

Sheep shearing is known as the toughest job in the world which is why the Kiwi's come and do it.. our Aussie cousins are a little soft see.... ;)

Nicko, I saw a sheep shearing demo in Rotorua at the Agrodome

don't remember the exact time (minutes!) but it was incredibly faster than my daughter can do it at FFA.

So happy its not spiders! I'm in....nothing better than a shot of whiskey in a dusty saloon with a lonely piano player and a rootin tootin gun fight! .....I see a tumble weed !

Already got one in!

If you lead a GOOD LIFE.. say your prayers,go to church ,
and drink Jack Daniel's!

When you die,you'll go to

Lynchburg

TENNESSEE !!!

On a sad note my brother -in-law who once played in the Jack Daniel's band passed away this morning and I can still see him wearing his cowboy hat and red bandana cutting his grass

He was a Vietnam vet and told me this joke

While a soldier was stationed in Germany and was taught a drinking game where everyone drinks as much German beer as they can while remember all the new people they were drinking with . The soldier said we have a similar game ,we pass around a bottle of Jack until someone leaves and the two left try to remember who left

You can't mention spaghetti western without Clint Eastwood. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a personal favorite. My friend's dad looks like Angel Eyes. My nickname is Tuco.

"If you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1-kciCb4

Goodnight.

Nearly a week before the deadline and we already have two entries

People have asked me about twang and accent and all.

It's not necessary!

Just write in your own voice, free form, set in a wilderness, or old west or any similar situation.

Lol I'm glad I don't have to speak "cowboy"

Trying to get you a poem for this Larry....

Thanks, Nicko.

I've had several people ask for time (in the US we're coming up on Thanksgiving holidays).

SO CONTEST CHANGES:

Poems are due this Sunday, posted Monday
Single Round, winner takes all

Good Luck all

Quick and slick! Quick draw y'all! (Cheesy)

What's the best

1 Spaghetti Western?
2 Revisionist Western?
3 Buddy Western?
4 Hero Western?
5 Loner?
6 Trail Ride?
7 New Age Western?
8 Aussie Western?
9 Comedy western?
10 Coming of Age Western?
11 Indian Western?

I'm not much for western, but if I do, its comedy or Indian western