Kate McManis recently completed an Honors Program thesis project on the relationship between horseback riding and musci.
She was not active or interested in poetry until instructor Randy Smith inspired her to join the college's Poetry Club. She is from Flower Mound, Texas, a suburb just north of Dallas. She was home schooled before entering college and her life revolved around horses as a child. After graduation, she hopes to travel to Europe to work in the equine industry. "I want to work with the greatest international athletes in the world, the horses," she says. She will graduate from the college's selective Honors Program and just completed an Honors Program thesis project on the relationship between horseback riding and music.
Hope is on the Breeze
by Kathryn Louise
When beauty cannot be seen it can be smelled
When despair is stagnant and smothering, hope is on the breeze
Riding the wind with purpose and destination, reviving the life of those it consumes
The hot breath of wild honeysuckle, the sweetest embrace
Not light and fleeting, but heavy and pure
Not a glimpse of what could be, but a sense of what is now
The fragrance of freedom
The aroma of transcending grace
The hot breath of wild honeysuckle
Hope on the Breeze
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- Garden Hat by Todd Bailey
