HERD MENTALITY

HERD MENTALITY

They follow where the skies roam
themselves nomads of the pasture seas
ships that float across endless, rolling green
inside whispers of a playful breeze.

Moonlight adrift dappled backs
velvet muzzles pressed to pungent Earth
colts follow within embrace of shadows
quiet rain a drink of Gods bestowed.

Instinct drives the grazing need into
woodlands far and deep
creeks alight their tongues with cool respite
branches canopy rays from tumbled beam.

Sounds divulge with twitching of their ears
soulful eyes upon the Alpha mare met with ease
the chant of hooves drift in meadows steep
composure gained in numbers while safety sleeps.

New dawn, new day; they make their migrant way
along wind-swept banks and hills of country ravines
content within the song of whinnies soft
snorts and squeals attest to wisdom’s cure.

I hear their passage rumble through canyon turfs
coming to greet this human awaiting their entourage
my sadness abated briefly upon singular touch
until they return to equine domains I cannot reach.

Knowing it was I who missed them more
than their wandering hearts so free
that fondly, yet so faintly
         remember me . . .