This Poem was Submitted By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2013-12-24 05:30:33 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Foal

                                                                Teach me, and liberate my heart. Her head                                                               Cocked sideways, mane abandoned to the wind,                                                              No ghostly rider from the land of death                                                              Reins her. Her beauty, health, no taint of sin –                                                              Apollo’s chariot, some myth is needed                                                              To explain the freedom that she pulls along,                                                              A power free from memory, or creed:                                                              I seek to join such freedom to my song:                                                              If only I could link my spaciousness                                                              Of infinite trace, the pasture without end,                                                              To her fleet tripping flight, her graciousness                                                              That speeds her down a path that never bends.                                                                  But even my tears of joy don’t run straight,                                                                  For they flow toward a heaven guarded by a gate.   

Copyright © December 2013 Mark Steven Scheffer


This Poem was Critiqued By: Joe Gustin On Date: 2014-01-01 13:45:22
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Wow!I would like to think we all process such a horse within us. That spirit that runs with such abandon.that its our heart that spurs her on. Yet it always seems that only our brains that hold the rains. The last two lines of this poem could be a poem within its self. Why would a place of ultimate power need a gate in the first place?


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