Horse Allegory Poems

Rid me of the pain of this world for I have my own pain to bear 
Everytime they look at me it feels I'm burned...

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what we will look for
what waits for us at the door
will be more and more

weather may be bleak
when to God would speak
Him will always seek

what...

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“Dragons don’t live up to the talk. 
I’ll find a way to fix the wagon”,
Opined the jealous Jabberwock,
“Of the scaly, lummox dragon.” 

This foul fiend...

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("Windhorse", 2023, original encaustic)

Wind Talk

Children talk to the wind
A skill, a talent, a desire
Most adults have lost
And forgotten they ever had.

Anyone can talk, but
Maybe what’s...

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Subject: Temper Tantrums

Give someone having a temper tantrum
an inch and they will take a mile's worth
of attention. You cannot kill the same 
dead horse twice...

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Furry mice

Many years ago, I was in Houston (Texas) to victualize 
a new cargo ship, back then a ship carried a large crew 
for all...

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Crossroads to where life began
Fear of dark cold round me again

In the twilight before the morn
Scattered grass iced, forlorn
Silence in the air ash orangy dawn
Fire...

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Go to Rhyme Zone to find words which rhyme.

Here Is My Mare Horn Haiku

Gilding is a Neutered Male
Yearling and Colt and Philly
Mustang Male or Female
Thoroughbred...

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One Dewy morn in month of May
When meads and green were half asleep 
The breeze was filled with blooms and hay
And by the lake were...

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April 5, 2023 – refracted reflections:

The following lines
haphazardly linkedin 
slap dash fashion
over the course 
of dazed and confused days,
therefore desist reading 
any profound meaning
if you...

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There was a horse, in this field,
White as any snow on Earth,
He looked sad as a sad owl,
But never pried for loneliness.

This is the only...

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Schuylkill Valley Encampment, February, 1778

Dearest Beloved,

This letter, penned with nature still enwrapped in winter’s shawl,
Might reach your hands by April, should it reach your hands...

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Villanelle the Foal

A gripping dance 
(12 men lift a rigid horse onto a pick-up truck).
I drive gate-wide

in the Volvo 
(Mummy, what are they doing with...

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want to have big blast
open mike is part of past
we have a podcast

about poets heard
a numbskull as well as nurd
each word was absurd

did discover a...

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They kill horse don’t they
Economical strokes
Of the knife
That let the blood drain
Gushing at first
Into the sand
As they watch the light fade
From eyes that trusted
Then move...

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