My Favorite Steed (with Thanks to ICE for the memory)

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Open Poetry #47

My Favorite Steed (with Thanks to ICE for the memory)

jwesley
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Spring, Texas

0 posted 2011-05-27 04:05 PM

Note: An old photo (reprocessed to make it viewable) of My Favorite Steed with saddle blanket still on from our morning ride, grazing in the side pasture with some of his sheep friends just before being brought into the barn. He was one of the rare, Checkered breed of stallions.

My Favorite Steed

© wesley james beard, jr.
march 2011

Note 2: Must confess ... the photo is from today don't have any originals of the 'old stallion...", (chagrin), but it does resemble him.

[This message has been edited by jwesley (05-27-2011 06:14 PM).]

JerryPat2
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1 posted 2011-05-27 04:10 PM

Hard to read, man, but I got the gist of it. I fought the same varmints with my Red Ryder B.B. Gun and my favorite stick horse, Splinters.

~ I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" / I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance ~

jwesley
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Spring, Texas

2 posted 2011-05-27 04:41 PM

Thanks Jerry, see if that color change on the text makes it easier to read.

j.

Martie

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3 posted 2011-05-27 06:06 PM

Jimmy...I was just thinking of my plum tree horse and back yard prairie. Loved this photo and poem!

JerryPat2
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4 posted 2011-05-27 06:32 PM

Yep. It does J.

Sunshine

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5 posted 2011-05-27 07:17 PM

Now this is a smiler....I must ask Kit for a smiler smilie!

*supergrin* just doesn't do it justice!

How clever...and charming!

Thanks for the grins!

OwlSA
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6 posted 2011-05-27 07:54 PM

Jimmy, i am glad this is Pip and I am amongst friends – I probably wouldn’t say this anywhere else, but the demise of your steed, has the tears rolling down my face – I love your darling worthy steed and his beautiful sheepy friends (and Jerry’s stick horse and Martie’s plum tree horse) – and obviously your poem too – I read your reply to Ford’s poem, On The Way To The Bus Stop that was the birth of this photo and poem.

Owl

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