Bliss and the Roan

"I do" given hard to take back once bitten ripe fruit crack. Hiding in the apple tree,the Elephant painted his balls red.

Pinched between the fence and the gate,
Cotton rope hiking one hind leg forward
Head dallied off hard and fast
Lip chain in hand,
Sharp Case knife splits the sack quick,twice,
Dig deep get the "squealer "Too!,
Then the sound,
Hard to reproduce on paper,
but like cutting through the old mare's ribs
You won't forget it
Some Buddie should of spoke up,
Emasculater's strong
Just part of a...
Woman's nature .

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Author's Note

A Frog and a river and a Scorpion.How did Tarzan die?
Picking apples.

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Sharp as the knife, this write! Had to read it twice, will probably read it again though scared that more of it will bleed its meaning. Tis like a flow of lava seems to me, an outpouring of male emotion. not quite angst but .. so sad coz not all women wrap men in hellish shrouds then kick them where it hurts. (You)

[lee von cleef]

not a very fair poem ,it started as my father doing what vets do with medication now days ,I think unbelievable,wished I had a video , the yearlings would go off eating grass after seemingly unaffected, but me ,I still read a lot of scowl into their nostrils and ears.Then I felt the confines of commitment, and wal la poem.

[Coyote Song]

This poem packs quite the unpleasant punch. This situation happens a lot in the life of men, I'm sure. Sad but it seems in the war of the sexes, its use and be used. Yes, sad. Excellent poem.

[lee von cleef]

I would rather wrestle then punch, I have felt that way, but today in the topsy turvy world I don't, wish I could take it back, I won't hang it on the wall,or carry it in my wallet,but I will keep it as a picture of time.

[J]

wow! this yanked me around -- unexpectedly. bloody well done. and just remember, we women take no prisoners .....!

[lee von cleef]

You don't have to say that twice I wear the anvil.

[Corset]

I never understand a word of it, but it all goes together, somehow, like campfire and beans, Love the comments almost as much as the write, the elephant crack, was stand alone, elephants never forget.

[Sheila Kline]

Dang it my friend......hope we women are not all as "emasculating" - omg ripped off his sack, but this is how a man feels when he's been trapped by a woman who's out to get what she can, and hold a man down. Wanna use that lip chain for certain, but then again, a woman will be a woman............lol
Powerful write!
Oh, yes - the roan is a beautiful specimen!!

[Colt 45 & 9/16]

Something tells me taken part in a castration or to eh!! Wait a minute "the old mare" is a female. Did I miss something? Or are they cutting a foal out of a Mare? Anyway very vivid. thanks

[Tree]

Damn that's powerful, Lee. I like when you say "Then the sound,/ Hard to reproduce on paper... " To me you reproduced that sound to this reader 10 fold because you gave it up to my imagination. And in the last 4 verses you just brought it/ on home. Thank you, for directing me here.

Diego

[lee von cleef]

Diego, thank you,I thought you would like it, not as clean as yours but, the subject-matter , marriage, is tough to capture in a short poem.

[Tree]

Lee stopped by for another read. This piece stuck with me. It's haunting. Maybe because I just get it. I know it.

[lee von cleef]

I like putting a new time, a new emotion into a old poem,Me too I'll read it twice.