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Blazing Mustang (unformatted)

The mustang mustered prickly prairie dry, In high rebellion ‘gainst the twilight nigh,  Before the moon disposed coyote howl;       O, mighty mustang with your formless cowl!   Since foalish days (beneath such cloudless skies  That vultures hovered with their raptured eyes), The mustang learned the nature of the plains,  It’s grace unlocked in evolutions’s pains,            Where windswept whirlwinds whirl their fairy dust Below the mountaintops beyond, in crust,  While most,  of many, dare not venture far.                                                                                                But, not the foal in frisky, frolicked jar,  As jittered flexions masked his youthful glee       And terror of survival tested free  The instincts deep within that foal would need In much of life…the bread requiring earthly, plastered knead.                                                                                                                       One minor scar upon this stallion’s neck,  Testimony to harsh cougars’s wreck  That punched a bleeder near jugular’s vein         Before the colt could gallop, after feign,  Beneath the pine coned branch’s mantled pine  Along the prairie’s bordered, sanctioned line.                                                                                               Survive, he did, amidst the dust and brown  With passion’s heart adorned as blazing crown                 Atop this stallion’s soul – eternal rest, Beneath the midday sun, but dreamer’s quest,  And mustangs dream not dreams within the nest.                                                                                But, nightmares, too, are dreamer’s dreams denied –  Such tranquil peace this mustang knew, belied  Myth that beastly lives determine, not,  Serenity’s sweet sorrow, deftly wrought.                                                                                              Across the plains, this mighty steed was prince,  His courtly presence truly honored, since,  He reigned supreme within the prairie’s cove,  His sinewed shoulders, he so boldly hove.   Majestic eyes, ablaze with fire’s light,  Above flared nostrils thirsting for a fight,  With honed hooves sculptured by the anvil’s stones –  The mustang crushed, on crucible, all bones.                          Withholding judgement, cruel, the mustang stepped  Around the rattler coiled so not inept, And thought, not once, about that vermin, cold,  Until such time, again, that reptile old. Such sculptured beauty, Master artists, vain,  Attempted mimic onto canvas pane But nothing born can capture mustang’s hue,  Save brushes handset in eternal pew.   No filly, pure, deserted by his side,  His harem chosen by his sense’s guide,  The yearning, strong, from nature’s calling hum  For vigor’s vital strain, survivor’s sum,  Expunged in vibrant climax - rapture’s peak ;  No sadness shed for lesser of the weak.       Without an auditory note, the steed  Dismounted mare and, so, returned to feed  Upon the grasses, green from showers sprung  From springtime schooner’s sails aloft and hung  To dry below the solar sentry’s guard.                                                                                             Ah, splendor, thy is wonder to the bard  In heat!  In driven passions poised postpartum, I             Behold the wonders to behold and cry Tears wilted by a timeless, tangled thought, through Mimed motives on tiptoed tightrope, taught.   Beyond the missive, dire, beyond myself;                                     Within the living being known as self,  Lies light, compassion’s bright and brilliant ray, The tiny tot that He, above, does say.

Copyright © February 2003 Robert L Tremblay

Additional Notes:
To those who may have "seen" my "Blazing Mustang" as a concrete poem, I have decided to post it as an unformatted, normal poem. As such, I have noticed some "flaws" that I will address, but I just wanted to give anyone who may be interested in this poem, to read it with ease. Bob


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