Buckskin Boy

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When I was a boy I had huge dreams of being something someday. Television shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, and The Big Valley (with Linda Evans and Lee Majors; remember), gave me such hope to one day have a horse, a (cowboy) hat, and a gun (okay, so we can't shoot guns like in the old west; but we can still dream). For the time being I just rode my plastic horse and played all day. Now, I learn from horses, and from God, that there is much more to life, than dreaming of just riding horses.

Buckskin Boy

Ebb and flow,                             
  daily the tide,
in my memory,                            
  it won’t let me hide.               

From the past,                             
  ”there’s two of them,”
lost in a moment,                        
  much happier when.               

My greatest desire,                                 
  no plastic toy,
I hoped, instead,                         
  be a buckskin boy.                 

Always there’ll be,                                  
  a bridge between the gap,
like Legos the pieces,                  
  together they snap.                 

Forgiveness is possible,               
  learned it from a horse,
a love from a Father,                   
  has plotted my course.                       

Cool, summer breeze,                 
  bareback buckskin tide,
white foam spray,                                   
  ebb and flow we ride.
    © 2009  Randolph D. Brown Jr.

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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