Best Appaloosa Poems


Ancient Warrior
...I see the wrinkles in your suntanned brow,
You carried burdens then; you see them now.
You’ve heard the cries your people who in pain,
Have shed their tears two hundred years like rain. 

Your s......

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Categories: appaloosa, angst, culture, native american,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Price of Free Will
...Medicine Hat Appaloosa
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Remember free will too has been gifted,
with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice.
Tendered......

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Categories: appaloosa, 6th grade, earth, god,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member ''A Lost Feather''
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A feather lost glides, drifting, it soars, 
In the mighty wind, it twirls and swirls, as if dancing;
Once, the People owned all the wilderness,
They called it home, now they watch i......

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Categories: appaloosa, dream, native american,
Form: Verse

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I Love Horses: A--Z
...I Love Horses: A--Z

A is for... Appaloosa. They have 
blankets on their rumps. 
B is for...Belgian. They work 
hard and can pull up stumps. 

C is for...Clydesdale. They're 
BIG bays with wh......

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Categories: appaloosa,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Ojibwe
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My people, the Ojibwe, fierce and strong
A people of stories and myths and knowledge
On birch bark scrolls and stones their history told
And I, a mere Ojibwa girl, write st......

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Categories: appaloosa, native american,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Mere Ojibwe Girl
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My people are the Ojibwa, fierce and strong,
a people of stories and myths and knowledge;
on birch bark scrolls and stones their history told,
and I, a mere Ojibwa girl, write st......

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Categories: appaloosa, native american,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Myku
...icy spurs on window panes
windy stars whipping by
appaloosa skies......

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Categories: appaloosa, allusion, horse, imagination, weather,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Audience Falls Silent
...I had heard about a ...
    a writer's group  ... in my city
      where a writer could recite their poem or short story
       on a stage with an audience
I decided on a poem ... of my heritage
......

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Categories: appaloosa, native american, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Retiring Cowboy
...Retiring Cowboy

He hung up his bridle by his bed on the wall.
His rig is preserved on a stand by the stall.
His old Appaloosa has been turned out to graze.
As he sits in his rocker and dreams o......

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Categories: appaloosa, retirement,
Form: Light Verse
Appaloosa Horses
...Appaloosa Horses ( Poem )


Bloodlines have influenced breeds
For beauty and performance needs

Native American horses on t.v.
Used decades in western movies

Identified mottled skin note
C......

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Categories: appaloosa, animal, character, horse, native
Form: ABC
Premium Member The Fluttering Feather
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Upon a sheer and jagged cliff an Appaloosa horse of many colors stands majestic
under the blazing azure sky.  An Ojibwa girl, proud, looks at the beautiful land of
Canada as the mighty wind......

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Categories: appaloosa, native american, spiritual,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Cowboy Up
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Appaloosa, Mustang or Paint
Breeds to ride and love, breeds who ain’t
Broken by pain or heartbreak
But show them a rattlesnake
That horse won’t have much self-restraint


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Categories: appaloosa, funny, hilarious, horse, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Feather
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Fluttering, drifting
to and fro it soars
it dances in the mighty wind
it twirls, it swirls

There
upon a sheer jagged rocky cliff
an Appaloosa horse of many colors stands majestic

......

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Categories: appaloosa, native american, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Cowgirl Up
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Pitching a leg across the nether
Of a pretty appaloosa or possibly
A chestnut bay who needs to know
That she’s being ridden by someone
Who will take her through the paces,
Strides bo......

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Categories: appaloosa, horse, relationship, western,
Form: Free verse
Ride 'Um Cowboy
...Cowboy rides horse cowboy boots in stirrups
Cowboy hat waving in hand, yeehaw it’s grand,
Cowgirl is on the range!  Lasso by corral
Appaloosa horse hurrah!  Glad he’s a cowhand.

Dreaming of equ......

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Categories: appaloosa, america, daughter, horse, love,
Form: Rhyme
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