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Unarmed man with
cumbersome homemade
from applebox cameras
Treading dangerous
territory,
Traveling West Texas
documenting history.
Border bandits,
rum runners,
Texas rangers.
Driving a two-horse
ice wagon delivering
ice to the curandera,
(Mexican healer)
Asking someone today
to direct their cameras
toward vanishing lifestyles,
primitive culture, old faces,
odd professions.
Wandering photographer
vagabond with bedroll,
chuckbox, and camera
documenting modern-day
life as he sees it.
Sending freelance stories
stuffed in a cannister
via carrier pigeons.
Writers and artists
who worked in western
pulp genre, those who could
adapt, went on to greater
things---Louis L'Amour,
gone, sadly those
flashy-covered
turn-of-the-century pulps.
Asking modern-day
writers and photographers
to fill our eyes with wonder
and fire our imaginations!
Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist, brainchild of Sage Sweetwater Creative Properties, flagship of Stone Creek Woman
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| Reviewed by jude forese |
2/22/2006 |
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| excellent, Sage ... you certainly have fired my imagination in this poem! |
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| Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner |
2/22/2006 |
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Sage,
Absolutely mesmerizing; you carry us back in time and unfold each scene on our eyelids and imaginations. I agree with Peter, you are a Poet to look to for inspiration, one of the greats. BRAVA, my friend, BRAVA!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. |
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| Reviewed by Only A Poet |
2/22/2006 |
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| Sage you brought this whole scene alive for me, bravo! i am a La'Amour fan. |
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| Reviewed by Ed Matlack |
2/21/2006 |
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| I love to carry my camera in case I see something documentable, though I never seem to get my film developed, perhaps I should start sending them carrier pigeon...? ed |
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| Reviewed by E T Waldron |
2/21/2006 |
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Love this Sage! You have such vast knowledge of your topics it's a pleasure to read you! Thanks for sharing your gifts!
Eileen |
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| Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader) |
2/21/2006 |
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Neat little story in free verse.
Even dead, Lamour outsells any other author. |
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| Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader) |
2/21/2006 |
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| And so you are in your own fashion, bringing us wonderment and firing upo our own set of passions and imaginations. Kicking it . . . |
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| Reviewed by Peter Paton |
2/21/2006 |
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Cometh the hour, cometh the man or woman Sage !
We are looking for the Leading Lights who will propel us into the 21 st Century with verve and imagination, you are one of those foremost writers who epitomises the free spirit that is absolutely necessary and vital, to be able to understand and interpret the past and prevailing climate we exist and function in, and be able to transmit an honest,potent and timeous message to the hungry and thirsty masses, who are devoid of momentum, direction and inspiration in life !
Be bold, be imaginative, because imagination is genius !
Peter |
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