Being a Gemini I have two sides that I live.  The one I am very happily married, family, and a home with a few friends my husband and I associate with together. The other I have a whole other side to me that is for the most part without my husband.  I’m a horseman and he is not.  This means I am without him for the social as well as the competitive aspect of my other life.

One New Years we had conflicting parties and we were not going to see my…

Sleek,

his coat shines

Coppertone’s aglow

Muscles tense as etched glass lines.

Drugged,

Eyes all a glare.

Fear, sweat and agony turns,

While running nostrils flare.

 …

Yet another poetic ramble from my alter ego, Shakespeare "The Equine."

Enjoy!

Wash 'n' Wear

A bright spring day

It’s very warm,

Flies buzz around me

In a swarm.

The Scribe and I

Spend training time

In outdoor ring

With dust and grime.

When done are we

Sweaty am I,

My horse couture

Must bathe and dry.

So to the wash stall

Lumber…

And yet another poetic ramble from my alter ego, Shakespeare "The Equine."

Enjoy!

Horse Couture

Spring has arrived

My coat’s a state.

No way to be

A fashion plate.

Hair’s falling here;

It’s falling…

And yet another poetic rambling courtesy of my alter ego, Shakespeare "The Equine."

Enjoy!

The Horse as Therapist -- Part II…

Yet more poetic ramblings courtesy of my alter ego, Shakespeare "The Equine"

Enjoy!

The Horse as Therapist -- Part I

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Yet another poetic rambling courtesy of my alter ego, Shakespeare "The Equine."

Food Matters



I love my food;

There is no doubt.…

Yet another poetic rambling courtesy of my alter ego -- Shakespeare "The Equine"

Farewell To Miss Fergs

Dedicated to the fiery Miss Fergs who succumbed to colic, February 13, 2011, age 22

Gone…

Yet another gem from my alter ego "Shakespeare 'The Equine'"

Enjoy!

Ghost Hunting



It’s in the corner

Can’t you see…

The name "Shakespeare" is synonymous with great literature. The Shakespeare of old is legendary. The Shakespeare quoted here is a legend in his own mind!…

In Beth’s dreams a pony white

Would dance and frolic through the night.

By day into her mind he’d trot

A fancy, floating, fleeting thought.

Sometimes upon his back she’d ride;

Sometimes behind a veil hide

And simply watch him prance and play.

He would be hers, she knew, one day.…

The name "Shakespeare" is synonymous with great literature. The Shakespeare of old is legendary. The Shakespeare quoted here is a legend in his own mind!…

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the farm,

Only one horse was stirring, the brown one in the barn,

The only one to hang a stocking from his feed dish that night,

Hoping that Santa would come, and fill it just right.

The other horses were settled quietly in their stalls,

While their dreams were of horse treats, candy canes and riding halls,

And the cat in the hay barn and the dog on his mat,

Had just snuggled in for a long winter's…

Captured, ripped from her homeland, and still homeless 3 years later.

Captivating, heart breaking story…

Winter Magic

by Mary Benson

Except from the poetry collection…