“The Red Mare” by Amethyst Mare

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You’re listening to Poetry Month on The Voice of Dog.

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This is Rob MacWolf, your fellow traveler,

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and Today we present a poem by Amethyst Mare,

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who is a self-published furry author

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and commission writer

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and will soon have paperback copies of select story collections available in print.

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You can find their work on FurAffinity

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and other furry sites.

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Please enjoy “The Red Mare”,

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a poem by Amethyst Mare

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They say we lead to borrow freedom,

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Freedom to let us be.

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Perhaps, my dear, you’d be so kind As to share your freedom with me?

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Forget distress, to hell with the rest,

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Curling onward – you think the shadows care?

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Honey, what danger?

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They do no more than stare,

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At you and I: our passing by.

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Clip-clop, clip-soft:

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hooves to pine spines,

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Sharp and stale from time’s fall.

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We shall take heed of flight, dare not stall, Hooves flicked airborne, a moment lost.

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Two are one but one

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is two And must farewell

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on life’s way. Yet I do so wish that I could stay In the shadow of your musty sweetness.

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When twilight groans, do you watch

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For a figure, rearing from the dark?

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Scrambling up bareback, that forbidden lark,

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Now the gate is latched and you graze

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alone. This was “The Red Mare”

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by Amethyst Mare,

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read for you by READER,

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with CALLSIGN.

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Thank you for listening

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to Poetry Month on The Voice of Dog.