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How you, my beloved late horse, fixed my jammed stapler
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How you, my beloved late horse, fixed my jammed stapler |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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HOW YOU, MY BELOVED LATE HORSE, FIXED MY JAMMED STAPLER 29 September 2007 Five years and five months and one day in Heaven and you are still looking after me. My stapler jammed and I used your last hoofpick which I keep in my bedside drawer (and your blue blanket on the bed on the other side of me – you looked so good in blue . . . but then you would have looked so good in any colour – funny thing, your last hoofpick’s handle was painted blue too) to unjam it. There are some who will understand, I know. - Owl |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
You can write about anything! and make sometning out of nothing and much out of something and this is much amazing Liz |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Exceptional..such love...my tears I share with you... |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
I do "understand", Dear Diana. Here's a  for you, and another one is being heaven-sent for Flicka.  With love and understanding, Linda |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
 Now that's an anecdote I must tell my daughter! She understands the value of those hoofpicks. I used picks to dig out gravel from the soles of my sneakers. (A unique way to remember that special equine.) [This message has been edited by Midnitesun (09-30-2007 08:43 PM).] |
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ArtSolstice Member
since 2007-03-18
Posts 498 |
Oh, I understand too, Poet. This write gave me goosebumps, as I remembered running my finger over the careful hoofprint of a special mare decades ago, to feel its shining, packed smoothness. Somehow, they never leave us, do they? Fine poem. |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
This is (obviously) a very 'real', heartfelt, tremendously emotive and fine 'write'! [I am likely absolutely incapable of penning 'Realism' (particularly that which is personal and nonfictional)...but grandly admire those who can!] serious, long-sustained applause! |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
WOW, this is one of your best!!!!!!!! And I want to really thank you for your comment on my poem "Waging War on Society"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Elizabeth. My darling Flicka was and is and always shall be SOOOOO MUCH! Thank you, Magnus. I wish that you and everyone else could have met him. He really was (without prejudice) the most wonderful horse in the world. I know you do, Linda. Thank you for your comments, your love and understanding, the hug for me (but oh, so verrrry especially thank you for the love and hug for Flicka – he adored/adores love and hugs!). Thank you and smiles, Kacy. Please ask your daughter to hug all the horses she works with from Flicka and me – that could take her some time! ArtSolice, thank you for understanding so well. Isn’t it strange how a horse in Heaven can unite people who have never heard of each other before! Although I love every horse that ever breathed a breath, I was a one-horse woman and I belonged to Flicka for 20½ years and knew him for 2 years before that, and have known him 5½ years since his death, so you can begin to imagine the bond. Thank you, Bruce. It took me many years before I dared pen a single word about Flicka, feeling that I was completely inadequate to do such a noble and loving and lovable horse any justice (not that he would have thought that) – then it got to the stage that I couldn’t not write about him. Thank you WindWalker. Your “Waging War (or rather not) on Society” is magnificent. - Owl |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
I just had to read this one again!!!!! |
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aziza Member Elite
since 2006-07-09
Posts 2995Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy! |
They never really leave us and they leave behind gifts of their past. A |
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Balladeer
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
such an ingenious idea for a poem...hats off to your creativity.  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thanks again, Windwalker. Smiles. Thank you, aziza. No, they don't leave us, especially not my darling Flicka. Thanks Balladeer, though it wasn't so much an idea for a poem, but a poem that wrote itself as a thank-you-communication-to-Heaven to my beloved horse. I really needed my stapler in a hurry then, and he came to the rescue! - Owl |
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