CREATIVE COWBOY POETRY

 


Cowboy poet, R. P. Smith will be featured at “A Taste of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.” That event takes place in Las Vegas during the National Finals Rodeo events. The Poetry Gathering will happen at the Ahern Luxury Boutique Hotel, December 12-14.

I first met R. P. Smith on the occasion of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Maxwell Baptist Church. He had written a poem in honor of that celebration and shared it with us during the Anniversary service along with other cowboy selections he had written.

We also had a gospel quartet come that weekend along with several former pastors of the church. Attendance at the weekend events exceeded the population of the town of Maxwell.

R.P. returned to Maxwell several times during our tenure as pastor. He shares a great testimony for Christ in a unique fashion as a cowboy poet. If you are attending the National Finals Rodeo, be sure to stop by the Ahern and hear him as well.

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