Extend, Sam, EXTEND!

[pdragon76]

When asking a horse to extend at the trot, you're asking for more length in the stride, but not necessarily more speed.  So where you would normally cover one side of the arena in 10 strides, you do it in 7 or 8 magnificent floating steps with a lovely flick at the end of the hooves if you're lucky.

Or if you're me - you ask for an extension and

Comments

[sewn_to_all]

That poem was great.
Kept me interested all the way through.

[pdragon76]

Ta muchly. This is one of my favourites (shhh, don't tell the other poems).

*pats poem on the head while the others are not looking*

Lovely!

[kayto1]

This is lovely - I liked how it winded about - didn't see the path it was taking, but really liked the journey!

Esp. the lines: raise my eyebrows in feigned interest,

not caring if either company spontaneously combusts

or falls off the coast into the Indian Ocean

Instead I will imagine my tongue

in the hollow of your neck where your pendant hangs