The Mane Point is proud to participate in the 2009 Blog Blast for Peace.
"Dona Nobis Pacem"
("Grant Us Peace")
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"Dona Nobis Pacem" 2009
"Dona Nobis Pacem" - 2009 Blog Blast for Peace
The Mane Point is proud to participate in the 2009 Blog Blast for Peace.
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Sunday
Carpe Deum - Seizing the Moment
Carpe Deum
Seizing the Moment
Photos c2009 by Nickers and Ink. All rights reserved.
Today, it is snowing again. Each time a new storm arrives, we assume it to be Old Man Winter’s final growl. After all, it’s April already. Still, the skies are filled with surprises.
Yesterday, however, a bright blue canopy covered the pastures. I slogged through the melting snow and mud to retrieve my half-Arabian sport horse colt for a ride. All of the youngsters were bagged out in the grass. At high noon, it was naptime in the nursery at the barn.
I sat on the ground next to my boy. He didn’t move. I leaned up against him and rested my head against his quiet breathing. The bay Hackney filly opened one eye in my direction before resuming her own nap nearby.
Eventually, I swung a leg up over him, half-expecting him to rise to his feet. He grunted and stayed put. I even crouched behind him and tried to rock him up. But he preferred to continue his sunny siesta.
So I took his little sister inside instead. This two-year-old filly wore splint boots and a bridle (with a D-ring copper snaffle) for the first time. (OK, so she is coming three this summer, but who’s counting?) She also stood proud and still, while I fastened a surcingle around her for the third time.
The mare and I played in the round pen for a while before returning to the pasture. I wanted to check on the colt again. As soon as I hopped the gate, he rose to his feet and came running. I guess nothing beats a good nap in the sun for a growing boy.
A bright blue sky bids us outdoors
‘Mid warmer winds and equine snores.
We’d like to saddle up for flight
In fanciful fantastic light,
To celebrate the sunny spring
With landmarks softly listening.
But statues still are all we find,
With limbs and tails and manes entwined.
No contract have we thus to ride,
To bring these peaceful ones inside.
By listening, we learn, of course,
To curl up quietly with a horse.
Posted for a variety of prompts:
Easy Street Prompts (“floating the light fantastic”)
Meme Express (Sunday Invitation)
One Single Impression (“listening”)
Poetic Asides (April P.A.D. Challenge: “landmark”)
Read Write Poem (NaPoWriMo – “introspection” or “50-word pickup”)
Simply Snickers (“blue,” “bright” and “bring”)
Weekend Wordsmith (“contract”)
Photo/s posted in response to these prompts:
Camera Critters (photo/s)
Scenic Sunday (photo/s)
Show and Tell Saturdays (photo/s – “collections”)
Straight Out of the Camera (SOOC Sunday)
Thursday Challenge (photo/s)
Weekend Snapshot (photo/s)
Wordless Wednesday (any day – photo/s)
Love poetry? Check out Simply Snickers, a brand-new weekly poetry prompt. Try your hand with weekly prompts! Or, look into The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts.
Click here to visit Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink.
Throughout 2009, please join us at The Heart of a Ready Writer, a Bible reading and devotional blog, as we read through the entire Bible in chronological order.
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Saturday
Far Afield
Posted for a variety of prompts:
Café Writing – Pick Three “destiny,” “plain” and “rules” and “strong”).
Camera Critters (photo)
Mad Kane (“vacation”)
One Single Impression (“rest”)
Photo Scavenger Hunt (“view”)
Simply Snickers (“sacred,” “secrets,” “self” and “scorn”)
Slice of Life Sunday ( “writer’s choice”)
Smiley Saturday (“smile”)
Sunday Scribblings (“solace”)
Wordless Wednesday’s Saturday edition
Photo c2008 by Nickers and Ink
Far Afield
A Limericked Ride ‘Cross the Countryside
Let’s go for a ride in the green,
Where destiny beckons unseen.
We’ll gallop the plain,
No rules to explain,
Vacation from daily routine.
The most sacred wonders, we share,
No scorn or remorse to beware.
Ourselves, all alone,
No deadlines or phone,
We gallop the gulch with a prayer.
The rest of the herd worries not,
We smile at the wind at a trot.
The solace we hold,
Far greater than gold,
Resides in our own secret spot.
Love poetry? Check out Simply Snickers, a brand-new weekly poetry prompt. Try your hand with weekly prompts! Or, look into The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts.
Click here to visit Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink.
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Wednesday
Playing H-O-R-S-E
Posted for a variety of prompts: Heads or Tails (“anything starting with the letter ‘O’”), In Other Words (quotation, listed below), Poetry Train, Totally Optional Prompts (“tempo”).
Metaphors have a way
of holding the most truth
in the least space.
-- Orson Scott Card
PLAYING H-O-R-S-E
(Tankas of Truth)
How we doubt His heart,
Honoring much lesser gods,
Human-bound ideals.
Horses freely lead us home,
Holding high the simplest truth.
Ordinary, not.
Obviously, Heaven-sent.
Our Creator’s gift.
Out of His own hand, they run
Off without a stumbling step.
Reason beckons us,
Rationing our deep desire,
Ruining the dream.
Regardless, we plunge onward,
Racing past delight to joy.
Somehow, promise pours,
Stimulating both of us,
Steed and humankind.
Saddle up for higher call,
Sprinting for sunset and rest.
Everything else fades,
Easing into nothingness.
Evermore, we fly.
Each outing erases doubt.
Equines confirm God’s great love.
Private Moments
Love poetry? Check out Simply Snickers, a brand-new weekly poetry prompt. Try your hand with weekly prompts! Or, look into The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts.
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Tuesday
My Dirty Secret
Posted for a Meme Express prompt, a Simply Snickers prompt (“magnificent” and “moments”), a Heads or Tails prompt (“Share a Summertime Memory”), a Three Word Wednesday prompt (“rumor,” “shake” and “spontaneous”), a Writer’s Island prompt (“curiosity”), a Saturday Free-for-All prompt (“wasted time”), Wordless Wednesday and Poetry Train.
Photo c2008 by Nickers and Ink
"One can never know for sure
what a deserted area looks like."
George Carlin
(1937 – 2008)
The most magnificent moments of all
And summertime memories, both great and small,
May be found in solace, as nature observes,
For these are occasions that quiet our nerves.
When rumors may shake us and make us to fret,
Spontaneous uprisings cause a cold sweat –
‘Tis then we escape to the dust and the grime,
For days in the pasture are ne’er wasted time.
So take me away from the ring and the race;
Let me escape to my own private place.
Sharing the meadow with those I adore
Rejuvenates me for what life has in store.
Love poetry? Check out Simply Snickers, a brand-new weekly poetry prompt. Try your hand with weekly prompts! Or, look into The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts.
Click here to visit Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink.
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Wednesday
The Mane Point Salutes Blog for Peace
(Posted in response to BlogBlast For Peace: A Revolution of Words ~ June 4, 2008)
Today, during the Blog Blast for Peace, these words from the Apostle Paul (written to the early Christian church at Philippi) seem particularly poignant:
“Rejoice in the Lord always.
I will say it again: Rejoice!
Let your gentleness be evident to all.
The Lord is near.
Do not be anxious about anything,
but in every situation,
by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God.
And the peace of God,
which transcends all understanding,
will guard your hearts
and your minds in Christ Jesus."
"Finally, brothers and sisters,
whatever is true,
whatever is noble,
whatever is right,
whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely,
whatever is admirable –
if anything is excellent or praiseworthy –
think about such things.
Whatever you have learned
or received
or heard from me,
or seen in me –
put it into practice.
And the God of peace will be with you.”
(Philippians 4:4-9, NIV)
“Dona Nobis Pacem” is Latin for “Grant Us Peace.”
May this be our prayer on June 4th and always.
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Saturday
Peace With Everyone
Here's this week's entry for Wordless Wednesday (Saturday edition). Photo by Nickers and Ink.
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"If it is at all possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone"
(Romans 12:18, NIV).
Love poetry? Click here to visit Linda Ann Nickerson’s poetry and humor blog, Nickers and Ink.
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