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Took me to the stable/ back into history/ and left me with a sigh! Thank you for the read!!!
posted by
gypsypoet1975
on January 13, 2009 at 4:58 AM
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Credit due
Thank you for sharing credit for Ciel and this poem was outstanding. We were all there - on the sill, above the loft, you had us feel and smell and that is awesome. You know that John Wayne always said that the scent of a horse on a man made them more attractive to women.
posted by
Smittenheimer
on July 8, 2008 at 2:16 PM
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this is beautiful--not just because I love horses so much-but because of the way you captures your feelings and MEMORIES! and the ending--:) kinda turns . Since you love horses so much-did you evr see my post for the petiton i had to sign and the link to contact your Legislators-Senators to help pass the anti horse slaughter bill?? It is back a couple posts says something like links easier to get to?? So if you are pro-anti horse "butchering"---visit the links:)
posted by
bumpsinaroad
on June 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM
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Hey Naut! Why is your poetry only occasional? I just don't where to start. It was like a short story, I was in the motion of the poem, the imagery was so easy to grasp. It was such a delightful childhood experience that anyone would long to have in the memory bank. I was especially taken with the delight it game my heart, the fact things were remember as mother spoke warmed my heart so! You can write! Shelly 
posted by
sam444
on June 24, 2008 at 11:48 AM
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Thanks, Elyse! I am glad you liked my little poem! Of course, it's really Ciel's spurring me on that did it...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 23, 2008 at 6:03 PM
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Thanks, Krisles! They're such marvellous animals - I sometimes dream of selling the house and getting a place in the country where I could keep a horse, or two...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 23, 2008 at 6:00 PM
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Naut, I'm so glad I found this ~ just awesome!!! What a prompt and what a poem...and what memories.
Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on June 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM
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Beautiful....I've smoothed my cheek against many a horse's nose and exchanges nuzzles in return....inhaling each other's special warm scents in stalls and under oak trees in fields....run my hands over the smoothness of those incredible muscles that carried me on my first adventures when I visited my grandparent's farm....many memories....your poem captured the relationship we share so well
posted by
Krisles
on June 23, 2008 at 5:46 AM
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Re: Hey, this is really special. I just smelled that wonderful horse odour.
Thanks, Kabu! So you too like how they smell - it's magical to me...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 22, 2008 at 4:38 AM
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Re: Such nostalgia, such fragrant, warm, kind memories...
Thank you, Ciel! You have summarized so well what I felt and tried to express...And thanks for being the impetus and inspiration!
posted by
Nautikos
on June 22, 2008 at 4:35 AM
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Thanks, TAPS! Yes, horses are wonderful creatures! To this day I can't pass one without saying hello, usually on my bicycle rides into the country...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 22, 2008 at 4:32 AM
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Hey, this is really special. I just smelled that wonderful horse odour.
posted by
Kabu
on June 21, 2008 at 6:14 PM
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Hey, this is really special. I just smelled that wonderful horse odour.
posted by
Kabu
on June 21, 2008 at 6:12 PM
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Such nostalgia, such fragrant, warm, kind memories...
And then there is the bitter-sweet of the kind of shared racial memory of wars and violence--a suggestion that only the bond of love, the memories of warmth and homeliness, made it bearable for man and beast...
Thanks for responding to this prompt so elegantly!
posted by
Ciel
on June 21, 2008 at 12:15 AM
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Beautiful, Nautikos. I've always lived in the horseless city so visiting the country was a special treat, especially the horses. Wonderful creatures. And there's nothing like seeing the mountains or the canyons on horseback. I love the noises that they make--the clop, clop, and plop, plop, and whinnies, and snorts and flapping of their lips (or whatever that funny thing is they do). They are so alive!
posted by
TAPS.
on June 20, 2008 at 8:17 PM
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