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chaos
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Member # 1996

posted April 16, 2004 06:21 PM

wild at heart

I never want to see you broken down
and bowing your noble head to
men with whips
Submit, I imagine-whisper and think of
us galloping as one flaming angel down grassy strips
of heaven
I wish you would lick the sugar from my hand
and we would walk back to the barn shoulder to shoulder
with no rope between us
yet seeing your savage head with its
small sharp eyes that see in shades of
instinct and survival and blood and water-
I know that only in chains will your heart
belong to me.
wild hearts that are beyond my grasp and
wild eyes that seek the horizon and see only city lights
this is what you are,
if I could set you free maybe I could make things right
you would die young and happy running on the dry plains of your origin,
part of me thinks it would be
better that way.
now our hearts are both in chains
mine because you can never belong to me
and yours because I can never set you free.

[ April 16, 2004, 06:25 PM: Message edited by: chaos ]

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~beloved owner of Thor
a.k.a The ApPaLoOsA oF l0o0o0ove
a.k.a Sir Spots-A-Lot
a.k.a The Sacred Appy
a.k.a The Funky Punky Purple Soft-nosed Appy

Posts: 39 | From: MA | Registered: Mar 2004

chaos
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Member # 1996

posted April 16, 2004 06:24 PM

oh...and on the off chance anyone wants to put that on a different website or something. please, please ask me first- thankya [Smile]

I've had a problem with my poetry being pirated in the past, in one case coming close to legal action because the dumb people refused to even put my name with it [Roll Eyes]

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~beloved owner of Thor
a.k.a The ApPaLoOsA oF l0o0o0ove
a.k.a Sir Spots-A-Lot
a.k.a The Sacred Appy
a.k.a The Funky Punky Purple Soft-nosed Appy

Posts: 39 | From: MA | Registered: Mar 2004

minnie_mouse
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Member # 2117

posted April 17, 2004 02:12 PM

wow, beautiful poem. u did that yourself!?

that is amazing-it went straight to my heart!!!

whenever i look at my mare i wonder what she would be like if she was wild!

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I LOVE MINNIE!!!!!!!

Posts: 443 | From: england | Registered: Apr 2004

chaos
Member
Member # 1996

posted April 18, 2004 11:53 AM

thanks...yep i wrote it myself

i know what you mean, ive seen horses from teh BLM roundups, and i know the roundups are a good thing because they keep the wile horse population stable, but still I wonder if those horses can ever be happy in captivity..

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~beloved owner of Thor
a.k.a The ApPaLoOsA oF l0o0o0ove
a.k.a Sir Spots-A-Lot
a.k.a The Sacred Appy
a.k.a The Funky Punky Purple Soft-nosed Appy

Posts: 39 | From: MA | Registered: Mar 2004

dappledrose
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Member # 2186

posted April 18, 2004 12:31 PM

Beautiful! And so true. I've always struggled with that inner conflict - needing to be with horses, at the same time wishing I could liberate them.

BTW, Chaos, have you ever tried natural horsemanship? It gives the horse much more freedom, at the same time cultivating an understanding between horse and human. I love it! [Smile]

-rose

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If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you onto a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair.

- Monica Dickens

Posts: 7 | Registered: Apr 2004

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