Our Quest #39: Page 9 Poetry

Our Quest #39

an occasional newsletter for davenport enthusiasts

copyright April 1999

used by permission of Charles & Jeanne Craver

Craver Farms

Charles & Jeanne Craver

Rt 2 Box 262

Winchester Il 62694

(217) 742-3415

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Page 9

Poetry

At last after years of silence the poetic muse has revealed herself through feverish activity of our Davenport poetesses who have rejoined the battle of double dactyl versification, to which is added other snappy rhyme that is easier to read than describe. Our contributing poetesses are a mother, Carol Drennan, and her daughter, Kirby Drennan. A wittier and more gentle pair of ladies could not be found, and it ought to be added that an editor has to be careful with what Carol writes because it sometimes slips over the edge into being truly poetic. Such material, of course, is ruthlessly excluded from the pages of Our Quest, which are strictly used for doggeral about good horses.

Equiphilic Double Dactyls from Kirby:

Clippity Cloppity

Homer X Davenport:

Desert-bred horses were

His cup of tea;

Said who wants saddlebreds

Skeletologicly,

Find your own sources, can’t

Get them from me!

Clippity Cloppity

Dressage Monopoly

Bored Walk and Park Pace

will Not win the prize.

Arab competitors

Unprejudicially

Pass C, collecting, in

Spite of their size.

A Name Game (using the names of Craver Farms horses: Monsoon, Vivacity, Dixie Cup, Atticus, Catalyst, Petticoat, Arietta, and Regatta and Jeanne's mare, Levity) and linking them with the Flood of 1993.

Levity Brokity

Monsoon Vivacity.

Bring me a Dixie Cip

There’s been a flood.

Attaboy, Atticus,

Catapult Catalyst.

Somebodies' Petticoat’s

Stuck in the mud.

Arietta the end yet?

Regatta be soon.

Not Quite a Double Dactyl from Carol:

Boomily Gloomily