A Pegasus Foal

Rearing on stardust, hungry for adventure
Grazing the evergreen imaginings
Beauty poised for new beginnings
Infer my taming abilities as head you lower

Enthral my youth with a thousand horsepower
Grasping your mane, you smell my fears
In my whimper, taste my naive years
Tears of joy along temples doubts overpowered

Your enchanted saddle is all I ever needed for comfort
A pencil with no lead drew your images in the soil
How I dreaded rain your grace would spoil
Until I grew a thick skin from walking barefoot

Palms stencil about your throbbing torso
You’ve taken my innocence too far
To a space cowboy on a distant star
In a perpetual somersault like a coin toss

To land on your wing...who needs a bicycle?
When I can take off to Andromeda 
Time travel like a fearless gladiator
With the subtlety of a pen overcome any obstacle 

Your quill completes my hand like ink to paper
I don’t believe in superstition, but your myth
Your wingspan overturns all reason and truth
For me to raise my calling to more than just a whisper


07-29-2015

Sponsor: Charlotte Puddifoot
Contest Name: All That You Are
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Kimathi Avatar
August 8, 2015 at 6:56 AM
Congrats for your awesome win Thabang! ;-)
A. Sharma Avatar
August 6, 2015 at 11:18 PM
Congrats on ur top place win with this superb write Thabang! Great knowing the real you!
A  Avatar
August 6, 2015 at 6:24 PM
Thabang, congratulations on your win, In Charlotte's contest... SKAT
Richards Avatar
August 6, 2015 at 4:46 PM
This is a wonderful mix of metaphoric and candid revelation. What a amazing, impressive poem ! Congratulations to you!
Puddifoot Avatar
August 6, 2015 at 2:42 PM
what an intriguing piece this is! deep and highly original, it captured and held my interest; you closed the poem very well with that last line, very effective - congrats on your win in my contest!
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