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On a High Horse

On a high horse riding
off in all directions --
'... too many places at once' she said.
Unity of self boring it's just fake
so drive onward, you've only decades
in which to flounder through these cycles
of scattering repeated beyond reckoning

She said the madwoman would have
been healed if she had continued --
continued in what? and 'There are no defeats
in this work'

 

and grateful there's

no danger of forgetting  

four words said near the end 

almost her last to me --
'Use what you know'

 

 

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  • indomitable
    August 15

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    if youre riding all over the place, i suppose a high horse has a better view.


  • whits end silver member
    August 11

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    Thought provoking!

    Well written and strikes my mind. I wish I could express my feelings of this poem in the same manner as you did mine. You are an amazing writer! "Use what you know"....I guess that's the only tools we have.


    • briareus gold member
      August 11
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      Thank you for commenting. Looking backward across some cycles of time with distress but without regret, the one quoted or referenced 4 times is a real person, who was/is my teacher