All quiet spring to mind on the western front ---Remarque
cheers P
On 07/03/2018 21:58, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Thought experiment, you’re right, Doug. I meant there would still be cattle
> stampedes and all those other western tropes but you need horses. The line
> OK there’d still be corrals (again for cattle) was supposed to reference
> the OK Corral but it’s a bit clumsy.
> War movies, you’re right, could also be included, All Quiet springing to
> mind.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 at 3:02 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I dont know Bill, I get it, but just who stampedes in that penultimate
>> stanza…?
>>
>> Poem as thought experiment, ignoring historical war movies, for example…?
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>> On Mar 7, 2018, at 5:01 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>> Some hurt, Patrick. Les Murray, Australian poet said something like
>> ‘Poetry
>>> is easy. You just take off your head, boil it up on the stove for hours,
>>> then put it back on before you go to bed.’
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 at 10:52 pm, Patrick McManus <
>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> like 'no poets were hurt making this anthology'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/03/2018 11:15, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>>>> Like it Bill but you forgot where they have to pretend to die. No
>>>>> animals were hurt in the making of this film?
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>>> ----Original Message----
>>>>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>> Date: 06/03/2018 23:56
>>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> Subj: Horses
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have no say
>>>>>>
>>>>>> in whether they want
>>>>>>
>>>>>> to appear in Westerns.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Directors, actors, stuntmen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - and women - do.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It’s up to them. But horses -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Think flooded river crossings,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> hauling laden wagons,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> full tilt range riding
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Up and down mountains
>>>>>>
>>>>>> of shifting stones. Horses,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> called to plough on
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> in all weathers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> accepting with alacrity,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sounds of shootouts,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> roped into collapsing
>>>>>>
>>>>>> under cowboy weight,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> falling from great heights
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> into raging rivers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> onto dusty prairies,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or snowy plains.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whipped by stage drivers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> urged into burning saloons,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> crashing through windows.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But without horses: pals,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> confidantes, muscled movers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> where would your Western be?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK, there’d still be corrals, stampedes,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> batwing-doored saloons, robbed banks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> six shooters, main street gunfights.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But somewhere, tension must gallop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Horses, salute them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Ho Silver!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bw
>>>>>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>>
>>
>>
>> the way of what fell
>> the lies
>> like the petals
>> falling drop
>> delicately
>>
>> Phyllis Webb
>>
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