Is this a 'dirty' poem?

DeadPoet

19 Apr 04, 22:35

My friend email me this poem a few days ago and she told me it is a love poem. But the more I read, the more I feel it is a very suggestive poem leh. Shocked

Is it me or is this poem full of sexual implications?

The Bucking Bronco

My love is a rider, wild horses he breaks,
But he promised to quit it all just for my sake;
He sold off his saddle, his spurs, and his rope,
And thereÂ’ll be no more riding, and thatÂ’s what I hope.

The first time I saw him was early last spring,
A-riding a bronco, a high-headed thing;
He laughed and he talked as they danced to and fro
He promised heÂ’d not ride no other bronco.

My love has a gun that has gone to the bad,
Which makes all the ladies to feel very sad;
He give me some presents, among them a ring
But the return I gave him was a far better thing.

Now, all you young ladies that live on the Platte
DonÂ’t marry the cowboy who wears a white hat;
HeÂ’ll pet you and court you and then he will go
And ride up the trail on another bronco.

tare

19 Apr 04, 22:53

well it is a sad love poem lor....

may sounds kinda suggestive lah.. he's a cowboy mah, so a rider. breaking the wild horses may meant taming the gals...

somehow this reminds me of someone.... Shocked

DeadPoet

19 Apr 04, 23:00

Originally posted by tare:
well it is a sad love poem lor....

may sounds kinda suggestive lah.. he's a cowboy mah, so a rider. breaking the wild horses may meant taming the gals...

somehow this reminds me of someone....

So it is a suggestive sad love poem. Mr. Green

You have friends who knows how to ride horses? I dare not try leh, quite dangerous right?

foga

19 Apr 04, 23:06

the beauty of literature isn't it.
the author might have his/her own interpretation of the poem, but to the readers, at least for me, it's the first impression/interpretation i get after reading the poem for the first time that sticks wif me.

and this one, i mus say i got swayed a bit in my interpretation.

Originally posted by DeadPoet:
My friend email me this poem a few days ago and she told me it is a love poem. But the more I read, the more I feel it is a very suggestive poem leh.

Is it me or is this poem full of sexual implications?

[b]The Bucking Bronco

My love is a rider, wild horses he breaks,
But he promised to quit it all just for my sake;
He sold off his saddle, his spurs, and his rope,
And thereÂ’ll be no more riding, and thatÂ’s what I hope.

The first time I saw him was early last spring,
A-riding a bronco, a high-headed thing;
He laughed and he talked as they danced to and fro
He promised heÂ’d not ride no other bronco.

My love has a gun that has gone to the bad,
Which makes all the ladies to feel very sad;
He give me some presents, among them a ring
But the return I gave him was a far better thing.

Now, all you young ladies that live on the Platte
DonÂ’t marry the cowboy who wears a white hat;
HeÂ’ll pet you and court you and then he will go
And ride up the trail on another bronco.

[/b]