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The Wild's Ways

July 29, 2012
By caitiekate GOLD, Hopkinton, New Hampshire
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caitiekate GOLD, Hopkinton, New Hampshire
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"Do what you want, not what you can." --Me

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Through binoculars I see him from a-back
frolicking, jumping, and bucking around.
A squeal escapes his lips and sounds
back to me in the distance, a frown I lack.
A bucking bronco, his coat sheer as black
jostling up other colts, the class clown.
The alpha rears and strikes, gifting a severe wound.
My jaw drops, sitting helplessly a-back.

No longer a member of the herd
the colt surrenders, his foolish days over.
It’s too late, the choice an irreversible black hole.
He will die on his own, one friend a bird.
Blocked from the rest like a game of Red Rover.
It’s the cycle of life that I sigh at its immature soul.

© Becky B., New London, NH

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caitiekate GOLD said...
on Oct. 9 2012 at 7:13 pm
caitiekate GOLD, Hopkinton, New Hampshire
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&quot;Do what you want, not what you can.&quot; --Me

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this may be really late, but thank you!!! glad you liked my sonnet (:
DanielM SILVER said...
on Aug. 8 2012 at 12:21 pm
DanielM SILVER, Kent, Washington
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&quot;I would rather hated million times for what i did then loved a million times for what i didn&#039;t do.&quot; - Daniel Moto<br /> &quot; I&#039;ve sought out to be the best i could posibly be but when i hit a roadblock in life what did i do, i had two choices either stay at the roadblock or i take this roadblock and make of it and go around it and achieve my goal. So, what will it be?&quot;- Daniel Mathia <br /> <br /> &quot;People take love like its a four letter word or just a phrase that you tell people or your friends all the time. But in reality love is much bigger than a merely phrase or 4 letter word. Instead love is a genuine promise or covenant to that special person.&quot;-Daniel Mathia <br /> <br /> &ldquo;Why change yourself when you were made perfect and wonderfully by the creator of everything?&rdquo; &ndash; Daniel Mathia <br /> <br /> &ldquo;If live is not hurtin then were really not living in.&rdquo; &ndash; B. Reith

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This poem is awesome. Great emotion!!!! I really like the middle stanzas. Great detail and great tone. Keep it up