After a beautifully done, wonderfully, deliciously invigorating and strenuous riding lesson, I have written a poem dedicated to Shane the peppy little grey Arab that I rode today. Just try imagining the three-beat canter gait in the poem, soon you'll be


Freedom and Dust

Three beats, four legs, my my, what legs!
Up up, down down, round round we go!
Yum yum, feels good, I like this way,
A staple, I say, like bacon and eggs.

Zoom zoom, run horse! Nothing can catch us
Just us and our freedom- freedom and dust
Happy we sail, you with your tail
Me with my bouncing brown braid

Who cares for the world, I don't, do you?
You with your all-seeing eyes, my love
Hold up your head, you do, you do
So I'll hold up mine, me too, me too.




Poetry by Inchworm
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Written on 2007-06-14 at 06:03

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NotaDeadPoet
Well done--bouncing rhythm true to more than a canter or even a trot--can feel the galloping pace and the feelings are expressed well. The happiness is evident on an unseen radiant face and the bouncing braid is as resplendent as the horse's tail swishing with the same articulation as the metrtical rhythm.
2007-06-27