04-11-2025, 10:57 AM
Like the Wind
We ask who dreamed of riding first,
to leap upon a fear-mad horse–
no saddle, stirrup, reins and, worst,
no vision of his likely course.
When some millennia had passed
though four-wheeled donkey carts were built
from single- to quadruple-assed
their speed could not be called “full tilt.”
Then Egypt learned velocity:
two wheels, four-spoked, with leather tires,
glued frame of airy density,
wind-racing car of princely squires.
They went to war for centuries
in such conveyances, for stakes
of dash, of headlong archeries
and often crashed: they had no brakes.
[Form: Iambic tetrameter (rhymed)]
We ask who dreamed of riding first,
to leap upon a fear-mad horse–
no saddle, stirrup, reins and, worst,
no vision of his likely course.
When some millennia had passed
though four-wheeled donkey carts were built
from single- to quadruple-assed
their speed could not be called “full tilt.”
Then Egypt learned velocity:
two wheels, four-spoked, with leather tires,
glued frame of airy density,
wind-racing car of princely squires.
They went to war for centuries
in such conveyances, for stakes
of dash, of headlong archeries
and often crashed: they had no brakes.
[Form: Iambic tetrameter (rhymed)]
Non-practicing atheist