WILD HORSES — As a thank you for participating in Meat Out for Mustangs throughout the month of May with us, we thought we should share something extra special with you on our final day of this very special campaign. It a beautiful poetic tribute to wild horses.

WILD HORSE DESTINY

by Craig Downer

Something there is of Destiny

that calls to me

in the wild horse

who runs so free

upon the remotest

desert and plain,

mountain range

or valley green,

for there is a Rightness here

and an ancestral precedence

dating back millions of years!

Surely this egotistical upstart

called civilized man

shall not be allowed

to extinguish

either this powerfully beautiful line

of ascent from ancient times,

or that by-God-valued Freedom

without which

the very soul of Horsekind

would be denied.

… And there is something implicit here too

in the very Destiny of all we call “the West”

that affirms: “Without wild horses

free to roam the vast unfenced expanses,

the West itself its very soul would lose!”

May Heaven forbid!

Praise God!

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Streams of the Soul

BY CRAIG DOWNER

Streams of the Soul delves deeply into the true nature and spirit of all life. Its lyrical messages obey a great inspirational calling that breaks free from many cultural confines. This exciting book speaks to the heart and soul while awakening the mind with a greater meaning and vision for life. Certain fascinating poems such as the one above depict animals, such as wild horses, and their role on Earth.

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The Wild Horse Conspiracy

ALSO BY CRAIG DOWNER

This stirring book fully justifies America’s magnificent wild horses and burros while countering the biased machinations against them. Written by an ecologist who grew up observing these animals in the West, it presents new evidence concerning their history and evolution in North America then describes their many positive contributions to soils, plants, animals and people.

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Two Mustangs. National Geographic.

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