A Taste of Elegy for Colin

A little look into this poem as we slow the world down to share an elegy for Colin, a farrier whose six-week visits shaped more than hooves. 

Jessica’s piece sets a quiet, reflective mood over people that have left this world. Colin the farrier as a steady presence over years, left a deep impression on Jessica’s view of the world. With sensory images of horses, tools and routine craft, small appointments become life-shaping rituals, where grief arrives late, gratitude arriving clear.
The line that anchors the poem: one’s nature is what matters most. 

This story is available in the anthology Voice Within: A Storybook by Storytellers Edition II.

Transcript

Loving Fine Horses

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You loved finely built horses, something leggy with vascularity and deep lungs. Give me a thoroughbred or a stock horse any day, you would say. And later, with one glove on the wither and catch cash in the other, you would sum up the previous conversation by reminding me that at the end of the day all that really matters in a horse or in anything at all is its nature. Uh wanna hear the complete poem by Jessica of the elegy for Colin. Then subscribe today. For less than two coffees a month, you can have access to the full poem as well as other pieces from Jessica, as well as other pieces, short stories, poems, and letters are part of the Voice Within community of authors and storytellers. So subscribe today, and every two weeks you will receive a new story. Enjoy the eye.