Two Lenses

As a child I loved to ride 'Thunderbolt" into the wind living then rural, Thunder was my best and only friend but now that I have grown so much older, more wise, mature I no longer desire shoveling barns, filled with manure!

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Mark Peterson

Date: 3/6/2016 12:14:00 PM

Yeah, but I'd go through a lot to enjoy the friendship of a horse. Cute little couplet.

Judy Konos
Date: 3/6/2016 5:05:00 PM

Thanks.....

Timothy Hicks

Date: 3/6/2016 2:41:00 AM

Hahaha ... funny punchline there, and you managed to do it so quickly and to the point. Gotta work to ride the steed. My niece used to have a pony named Galaxy, and so I've seen what "piles up".

Judy Konos
Date: 3/6/2016 6:06:00 AM

LOL

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 3/5/2016 4:49:00 AM

Nice win

Judy Konos
Date: 3/5/2016 6:32:00 AM

Hellooooooooooooooooooooo .. PD....Good to see ya! Thanks for reading about my barn friend....

Eve Roper

Date: 2/29/2016 10:20:00 PM

Congratulations on your win in the contest. I love the write, Judy, I wouldn't want to shovel manure either. Hugs

Judy Konos
Date: 3/1/2016 6:57:00 AM

Hi Eve....manure sounds good to me...if only I could swing a shovel again...LOL....no can do kiddo.....C YA....

Nette Onclaud

Date: 2/29/2016 1:39:00 PM

fine write, judy... i feel the same way too!.. my sweet congrats on your prize!..huggs

Judy Konos
Date: 2/29/2016 4:22:00 PM

Thanks Nette means a lot, coming from a Cloud 9

Sara Kendrick

Date: 2/29/2016 9:07:00 AM

Thank you for participating in my contest “Two Lenses”..It was an honor to read your entry..Sara..A sad part of having animals is doing the dirty work..A beautiful picture of an awesome horse..

Judy Konos
Date: 2/29/2016 12:22:00 PM

Thank you for hosting such a challenging and wonderful contest. Cheers!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 2/28/2016 7:35:00 PM

Just looked down to see your reply to me. Guess what. Corvette, an old one, is another of his boyish dreams. But it's MINE TOO. Congrats on this one.

Judy Konos
Date: 2/29/2016 8:00:00 AM

C O R V E T T E

Jan Allison

Date: 2/28/2016 3:26:00 PM

Dropping back with my congrats Judy:-) hugs Jan xx

Judy Konos
Date: 2/28/2016 5:45:00 PM

Thank you Jan....it's always more than good to hear from you....so I'll just say it's Gooder!

Anindya Mohan Tagore

Date: 2/28/2016 8:05:00 AM

Wonderful write and the precision is marvellous. Hugs, Bobby

Judy Konos
Date: 2/28/2016 8:36:00 AM

Hello....and thank you very much....

Paul Callus

Date: 2/28/2016 3:17:00 AM

You said a lot in just two couplets, Judy! I can imagine you riding across the plains followed by imaginary pursuers:) I did lots of mucking on g'father's farm! ~ Congrats on this merited win. ~ Regards // paul

Judy Konos
Date: 2/28/2016 8:37:00 AM

Hi Paul...you have such a way with words that it's fascinating...Thanks for the visit....

Arthur Vaso

Date: 2/27/2016 10:20:00 PM

Well I was intrigued by all the poems "two lenses" I Have to say I loved the creativity in all of them, such a good idea, and this packs a punch too, loved the poem, and laughed, but also that photo? Beautiful. Youth/wisdom you summed it up! Congrats too!

Judy Konos
Date: 2/28/2016 8:43:00 AM

Thank you and actually he reminded of George Lenox, my neighbors horse in Germantown Tennessee...Carbon Copy http://www.walkerswest.com/Champs/CarbonCopy.htm

Susan Gentry

Date: 2/27/2016 5:08:00 PM

Congratulations on your win with this clever and funny couplet! :)

Judy Konos
Date: 2/27/2016 5:51:00 PM

Thanks Susan for stopping....

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 2/26/2016 9:29:00 AM

Do drop by and visit, I so enjoy your comments.

Judy Konos
Date: 2/26/2016 4:22:00 PM

Certainly will do....thanks for stopping...next time bring a shovel!

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 2/26/2016 9:08:00 AM

Ha ha, I would keep riding and let someone else do the shovelling!

Judy Konos
Date: 2/26/2016 9:11:00 AM

Indeed...."Sir Richard of Lamoureux"....Indeed.....

Vee Bdosa

Date: 2/26/2016 7:39:00 AM

Interesting story of the B-32, it never saw combat in Europe, and what little combat it had was in the Pacific. But it had serious problems, and by the B designation, one would think it was a Boeing product. Not so, it was Corsair and so heavy it almost could not fly. But I am giving away most of my details of my next Blog, so will not tell more here. But I love the poem Thunderbolt. Do you remember the movie THUNDERHEAD? He was a white stallion.

Vee Bdosa
Date: 2/26/2016 10:31:00 AM

Porter Wagoner had a horse, whom I first heard about from Si Siman who gave Porter his big start in Sp[ringfield, anyway I lived in Springfield and had some dealings with si Simon, who had an office in a big rock building on Glenstone St, but he told me quite a bit about Porter

Judy Konos
Date: 2/26/2016 9:10:00 AM

Ron, Indeed I do remember Thunderhead and Trigger and Gene Autry's horse Champion and Dale Evans' Buttermilk, Flicka, Fury, Mr Ed, Hidalgo...and then we get to Man O War...My mom use to pet Man O War as a grammar school girl and then she'd run real fast to hurry to the back of the line so she could line up to pet him again....

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 2/25/2016 8:56:00 PM

OH MY, my hubbie still thinks he is a teenager. he is wanting to buy land and a horse and a stable. I don't WANT to go in debt at this age. Ugggg. Wish me luck, Judy. Good poem!

Judy Konos
Date: 2/26/2016 2:52:00 AM

Buy him a Corvette!

Tim Smith

Date: 2/25/2016 6:55:00 PM

lol....handsome horse Judy

Judy Konos
Date: 2/25/2016 7:49:00 PM

Very handsome on the front end! Thanks for stopping Tim...

Daniel Turner

Date: 2/25/2016 6:33:00 PM

I can honestly say I never had a desire for it. I do love the humor, Judy.

Judy Konos
Date: 2/25/2016 7:49:00 PM

Hello appreciate your coming by.....Cheers!

Vee Bdosa

Date: 2/25/2016 4:43:00 PM

Awww poor Thunderbolt, gots to shovel his own sh.... I mean mess. I like this little gem of a poem.

Judy Konos
Date: 2/25/2016 4:48:00 PM

Ron, it's called schitt, not found in any dictionary....Thanks for stopping. Put VeeBdosa in the contest, he's got that special talent...but remember two lines of your childhood likes and two lines now of your dislike of things you once liked. I am not sure you can write only 4 lines..so take the challenge! Cheers!

Edwin Hofert

Date: 2/25/2016 4:40:00 PM

LOL This is awesome. I shoveled my share too but it was cows. I think her name was Betsy or something like that.

Judy Konos
Date: 2/25/2016 4:49:00 PM

Hey you....good to see you....

Vee Bdosa
Date: 2/25/2016 4:45:00 PM

My kid brother and I shoveled for 32 cows in our dairy barn, and sometimes we had to tie their tail to their leg so they could not swat us with them. We had many a squirt milk contests in that little 8 stall milk barn. LOL

Jan Allison

Date: 2/25/2016 3:35:00 PM

ha ha ha love the humour here Judy:-) hugs Jan xx

Jan Allison
Date: 2/25/2016 4:58:00 PM

... I know and I try so hard to not write poop poems lol:-) hugs Jan xx

Judy Konos
Date: 2/25/2016 4:51:00 PM

Oh and one more thing...Have you ever noticed? Anytime we talk about sex, schitt or the Loo, then the comments come in like B32 bombers!

Judy Konos
Date: 2/25/2016 4:50:00 PM

I know what you Mint! LOL

Jan Allison
Date: 2/25/2016 4:18:00 PM

I meant the humour in the second stanza:-) hugs jan xx

Judy Konos
Date: 2/25/2016 4:15:00 PM

Thanks...but nothing funny about Thunderbolt! He splashed out some BIG ones!