What's With Horses?
Poetics: Running With Horses Dora at dVerse offers the following prompt. "Our poetics prompt is simple: horses. Use horse imagery in any way you like, either as the focus of your poem or in passing. In allusion or metaphor. An ekphrastic. Or just a mention will do." Why is it little girls want a horse, is it part of their DNA? They play with the figures and pour over the books, and know the roan from the bay! Herds of Breyer fill their shelves; their minds on horses all day. The only gift they want Santa to bring is a model of dapple grey! They nag and they plead for a chestnut to ride, or a pretty buckskin mare. A golden coat, a mane of black, and a bridle made of rawhide! They paint-by-number mares and foals, then gallop around the yard. At breakfast time they want their oats raw when served in bowls! Every year at the county fair it's straight to the pony rides, and off to the livestock barns. A gaggle of girls gather to gawk and pet the horses' smooth sides!