<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;">Hi Group 1,<br><br>At least one person was sorry I didn't submit something. I didn't think it would be fair to exp;ect a critique when I was not giving one. But if you are so inclined, that is more than okay with me. Please don''t feel obliged, and if you say anything don't put a lot of effort into it. It's a shor poem.<br><br>Leonard<br>-----<br><br><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A Horse’s Touch</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On a lazy lovely summer’s day,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">five went walking down a sunny lane,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">passing by a wooden rail fence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">with trodden pasture in its range.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Three old horses stood there grazing,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">their paltry grasses dry and tramped.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We five leaned on rail posts gazing,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">calling them to saunter closer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I pulled out tufts of sweet green grasses,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">enticing morsels beyond their reach,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and offered them to hungry horses,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">whose desires were daunting forces.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I ran and pulled the fresh green grass</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">back and forth in countless passes,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to keep their browsing needs supplied,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Though we all knew I could not last.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I leaned at rest against the fence.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then the mare who had been the boldest</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">laid her neck across my shoulder,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and my heart broke in wordless pleasure.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An equine neck is powerful.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I felt her mass lay gently down</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">like a mare cuddling her foal,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">her great strength in total control.</p>
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