Na Vaqueros (The Cowboys)

A Poem by Richard🖌

Something different: A VERY NICE TREAT to share, I hope everyone will enjoy. 🌺 Watch videos one at a time and expand to full screen … you'll be happy you did.

Here's a copy of an email received from my best old high school buddy,

Randy, who has now lived in Honolulu, Hawaii for many years:

Hey, Richard!

Couldn't help but think you would appreciate this one

in mixed Spanish/Hawaiian harmony.

Randy!

Father & Son sing "Na Vaqueros"

Beautiful hula dance in homage to Na Vaqueros.

Spectacular, Randy … thank you so very much!

.... Yesteryears ....

(a poem inspired by the song, "Na Vaqueros," and youthful memories)

What might I say of such grandeur,

of treasured words rarely spoken?

Grateful for history so pure …

rhythmic music's perfect token.

Welling from deep in my heart's core,

it will always be for certain

these tears in my eyes I'll adore,

through friendship's shimmering curtain.

Might be because you've thought of me,

of callow days we'd cruise and sing …

spirited voices soaring free,

young hearts rising on choral wing.

"Na Vaqueros" … a diff'rent song

wrought in blended language so new.

No doubt we’d be singing along,

those joy-filled ways we used to do.

Thank you my old friend.

Richard W. Jenkins

(English translation of the Hawaiian/Spanish Free Verse lyrics

to the beautiful song, Na Vaqueros, by Kuana Torres Kahele)

The Cowboys

A song for the cowboys
the Spanish blossom
of these beloved lands

They brought guitars
from the land of Spain
for the multitudes

Chorus:
The beautiful woman dances
in her beautiful dress of the moon
A true beauty indeed
causing a stir within, bound to the heart
is this beloved maiden

The horses were saddled
placed on the Florence
the ship with three masts

Commissioned
by our great king
Kamehameha

Ah my love
dance to the music
to the music of my heart

Your love is the loveliest thing in the world
Let us make love into the evening
under the stars

Oh my love
dance to the music
To the songs of the Cowboys

© 2024 Richard🖌

Author's Note

Please, just enjoy. And, review if you'd like;
I always appreciate others' thoughts and feelings.
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Patricia Wedel

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where Stars fall along Trails of

Wonder Lust and Gold Dust becomes

the Romance of the Guns...

Where Ladies in Black Lace spread Red Rose Petals

on Beds that Legends Leave in Gambling Games of

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Queen of Spades...