07-31-2015, 01:49 AM
Many thanks for your helpful comments, peeps.
@just mercedes - done a lot of riding and just love the smell of horses. Felt I had to make reference in the poem.
@billy - the cloud formations - streaks - are typified by a flicked-up end or hook, hence the allusion to a beckoning finger to mount and ride with an invisible herd. And Andalusians are noted for their long white tails (increasingly being bred in): that's why I mentioned that breed.
Thanks again for the comments. I'll put them to good use.
@just mercedes - done a lot of riding and just love the smell of horses. Felt I had to make reference in the poem.
@billy - the cloud formations - streaks - are typified by a flicked-up end or hook, hence the allusion to a beckoning finger to mount and ride with an invisible herd. And Andalusians are noted for their long white tails (increasingly being bred in): that's why I mentioned that breed.
Thanks again for the comments. I'll put them to good use.
A poet who can't make the language sing doesn't start. Hence the shortage of real poems amongst the global planktonic field of duds. - Clive James.